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Film Review: Godzilla Minus One
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation 70 years ago, Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla (or Gojira as it’s sometimes called to differ it from some later entries with the same title) changed everything. While monster movies had been around for awhile, Godzilla‘s revolutionary “suitmation” practical effects combined with it’s genuine thematic depth surrounding post-war anxieties suddenly made the…
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Film Review: The Boy and the Heron
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Opening with a hospital fire, The Boy and the Heron (also known as How Do You Live? in it’s admittedly much better Japanese title) starts with a literal bang, which is interesting considering how much of The Boy and the Heron is also Hayao Miyazaki’s quietest film in a very…
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Film Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation A near 10 year in the making picture, Killers of the Flower Moon represents the third in a trilogy of late period Martin Scorsese projects that are mainly passion affairs. It started with his faith based masterpiece Silence and continued with his long awaited return to the gangster genre in…
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Film Review: The Zone of Interest
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation When discussing historical tragedies in film, there is an inevitable urge to frame the action as some sort of humanitarian service; a documentation for future generations to perceive maybe not the full horror but just enough so they can understand the paths that have led humanity to this point. The…
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Film Review: The Night of the 12th
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation From it’s opening title card, you know how The Night of the 12th is going to end. It doesn’t try to hide it at any point either, making it clear that what you are witnessing isn’t going to be resolved in any traditional manner. The film gives you just enough…
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Film Review: The Beast
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation The Beast is confounding. Not even in just the traditional sense of being difficult to decipher – any film that opens up with a green screen recreation of a scene from it’s own third act is going to be – but in the sense of I’m not entirely sure all…
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Film Review: Robot Dreams
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation A story of friendship is, on paper, the surface level idea on display in Robot Dreams, the animation debut of Spanish director Pablo Berger. Told with nary a single line of dialogue, Robot Dreams is immediately charming through simplicity in a way not a whole lot of films are. A…
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Film Review: Anatomy of a Fall
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation A boy returns from a walk with his dog to find his father dead on the ground outside. Blood everywhere. He screams, the mother rushes outside and quickly comforts him. She is distraught and calls 911. It was an accidental fall, no blame to be found here. But something isn’t…
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Film Review: Last Summer
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation If there is anything Catherine Breillant isn’t known for, it’s restraint. The French filmmaker, who has been in the business long enough to be known as old guard at this point, might not even know what the word means frankly, and while debates will rage on whether or not her…
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Film Review: The Beasts
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation A horse to the slaughter is what opens The Beasts. Two brothers wrestle a horse presumably to death, for no other reason then to simply assert dominance. And yet, when we see the horses again, they do not obey, instead content to go their own way and find some kind…
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