-
Film Review: Hokum
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation As early as five minutes in, Hokum is already going for the jugular. To some, jump scares are an easy tactic, but to somebody like Damian McCarthy it’s clear that it can also be an artform in itself; a sudden release of tension and fright that comes at just the…
-
Film Review: Mother Mary
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Playing into the metaphysical and poetic, Mother Mary is exactly the kind of film that you would expect David Lowery to make. At his core, Lowery is a filmmaker that plays into emotion and vibes first and foremost, with all of his films carrying a level of painterly like ambiguity…
-
Film Review: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Almost as nasty as an actual decaying corpse, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, which is indeed the full title, revels in it’s gruesome horror. Less overtly scary and more focused on being as disgusting and gross as you can imagine, it follows in the footsteps of the titular director’s past work…
-
Film Review: The Drama
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Ever hear somebody say something so shocking and unexpected you can just hear a pin drop and literally feel the air being sucked out of the room? That’s the entire impetus of The Drama, which finds the marriage between Emma and Charlie threatened just days before it’s supposed to happen.…
-
Film Review: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Seemingly designed from the ground up to be as frenetic and as fast moving as possible to keep the attention of even the smallest of hyperactive children (or hyperactive, chronically online adults), The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is only barely just that. A barrage of loud noise, colors, and action sequences,…
-
Film Review: Project Hail Mary
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The Earth is dying. Something is dimming the sun, and we only have 30 years to really prevent it or things are going to get bad really fast. Project Hail Mary, as a film, isn’t about climate change but it certainly feels like it in some ways; a film about…
-
Film Review: The Bride!
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Bursting onto the frame with a loud, overwhelming jolt to the senses not unsimiliar to the very lightning bolt that brought Frankenstein’s monster to life years and years ago, The Bride! is almost as unwieldy and impossible to quantify as said monster as well. It’s the stitched together, falling apart at…
-
Film Review: Undertone
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation One of the canon rules of horror is that usually what you don’t see is scarier then what you do see. Undertone, with it’s focus on auditory horror and a sole lead actor on screen for the entire runtime, feels like the ultimate test of that canon rule. With almost…
-
Film Review: Hoppers
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation It doesn’t take long to realize that Hoppers is the real deal from Pixar. Probably the studio that has struggled the most post-pandemic, small success stories like Elemental and big blockbuster hits like Inside Out 2 have managed to keep them in the conversation as their major projects, regardless of…
-
Film Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Maybe one of the few working directors who can actually earn the “from the twisted mind” phrase in his marketing, Gore Verbinski returns after a 9 year hiatus after audience soundly rejected the wildly underrated – and exceptionally bizarre – A Cure for Wellness and sent Verbinski into director’s jail.…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Matt's Media Corner 