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Film Review: The Mastermind
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation A heist film is not exactly the thing you would expect from Kelly Reichardt on first glance. The slow cinema auteur known for her meticulously and lesiurely paced stories is, on paper, the anti-crime movie filmmaker; not nearly energetic enough to allow for the high intensity needed for a film…
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Film Review: The History of Sound
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation For a movie about the notions of sound and how it surrounds us almost constantly, The History of Sound is achingly quiet. Nobody really speaks above a whisper, and when they do it’s less about the things they do say and the things that they don’t. It makes sense though,…
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Film Review: My Favourite Cake
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Political art is not always flashy. Normally when people think of it it’s through the banner of protests or government buildings or actively discussing political figures or regimes. There is a tendency then to view said political art as a very specific kind of feature, but that could not be…
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Film Review: Omaha
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation With a slow, almost unsure beginning, Omaha is a film that leaves it’s viewer at a distance almost immediately. This is on purpose, clearly by design from a newcomer filmmaker with something to prove. It takes it’s time getting going, just like the car that our core trio are driving…
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Film Review: Sirat
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Just like the music that pumps through the sound systems at a rave, Sirat moves at it’s own pulsating, intricate rhythm. In fact, the first and final images of Sirat are like a loop, showcasing the beginning setup of the sound system itself followed by the desolate leftovers of what…
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Film Review: Rental Family
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation It’s not hard on the onset to see Rental Family, Hikari’s sophomore feature outing and her first major one in the Hollywood sphere after making a name for herself thanks to her work on Beef, as an easy star vehicle for Brendan Fraser post-Oscar win. Fraser’s own personal persona as…
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Film Review: It Was Just An Accident
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation There really isn’t another filmmaker quite like Jafar Panahi, whose essential work in Iranian cinema is, of itself, an act of supreme defiance and rage. But while he isn’t the only director in recent memory who has been doing this type of work – just take a look at Mohammad…
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Film Review: A Private Life
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation A strange, almost self-analytical “murder” mystery that’s honestly more about it’s investigator then the supposed crime itself, A Private Life certainly has it’s work cut out for it. It wants to be a sophisticated character study that plays with time, perspective, and dream logic, but it also has it’s tongue…
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Film Review: Tron: Ares
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Disney can’t seem to figure out what to do about Tron, huh? The 80s cult hit, which languished in mostly cinephile history books as a strange but important note in the development of VFX, became one of those films that persisted almost by chance. It’s vocal fandom, made up of mostly…
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Film Review: One Battle After Another
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The chance to review a new Paul Thomas Anderson flick is something of a rare opportunity. One of the greatest living American filmmakers – maybe one of the last if AI seemingly has it’s way within the studio system and beyond – and one of our best living auteurs, Anderson…
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