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Film Review: Sharp Corner
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Jason Buxton Starring Ben Foster, Cobie Smulders, William Kosovic, Gavin Drea Not Rated Within it’s first 10 minutes, Sharp Corner opens with a literal bang. A botched quickie in a new home is turned suddenly violent as a car veers out of control and crashes into our lead’s…
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Film Review: Maria
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Directed by Pablo Larrain Starring Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Kodi Smit-McPhee R Pablo Larrain’s trilogy of women centric stories (unofficially and unwiedly called “Trilogy of important 20th century women”) is mostly defined by two very key ingredients. Firstly, each film is less of a straight up biopic and…
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Film Review: Flow
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Gints Zibalodis PG The best way to describe Flow, a new ambitious animated feature from Latvian director Gints Zibalodis, is that of “tech demo”. This isn’t necessarily a good or bad thing (though to some it may seem like faint praise), but as an animated film made entirely…
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Film Review: The Count of Monte Cristo
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière Starring Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anais Demoustier, Laurent Lafitte Not Rated One of the most adapted and beloved books of the 19th century, we are graced with yet another adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. This time, it comes courtesy…
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Film Review: Black Box Diaries
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Shiori Ito Not Rated CW: Contains frank discussions about sexual assault A documentary 6 years in the making, Black Box Diaries initially functions as a day by day account of Shiori Ito’s fight and case in her own sexual assault, which on it’s own is an impressive feat.…
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Film Review: My Dad’s Tapes
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Kurtis Watson Not Rated My Dad’s Tapes is a difficult work to review because I’m not really sure it’s meant to be “reviewed” in the traditional sense. It would frankly be like reviewing or critiquing somebody’s own personal emotional therapy or the old home movies one made to…
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Film Review: Seeking Mavis Beacon
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Jazmin Renée Jones Not Rated When do we decide to be remembered? In the digital age this is a question that becomes more and more relevant with each passing day as technology becomes more powerful and easier to access. Digital footprints left behind by those long past are…
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Film Review: My Hero Academia: You’re Next
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Tensai Okumura Starring Daiki Yamashita, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yuki Kaji, Kenta Miyake PG-13 There used to be a time in anime history where the long running shonen series would get movies almost on the yearly, and while the industry is currently in a position where that’s mostly unsustainable, My…
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Film Review: Joker: Folie à Deux
By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation Directed by Todd Phillips Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener R Does Todd Phillips feel like J. Robert Oppenheimer? Does he regret his own creation? It very much seems that way if Joker: Folie à Deux is to be believed, who opens up with an animated sequence…
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Film Review: Transformers One
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Josh Cooley Starring Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Hamm PG Despite it’s origins in animation, it’s taken nearly 40 years for Transformers to return to the big screen in the format that initially made them famous in the first place. After floudering around for 16…
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