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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 2
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Neil Druckmann Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv, Christine Hakim TV-MA “Bomb the whole city.” Those are the chilling words delivered at the cold open of this episode, and it’s fitting then that, in the same episode, it ends in a massive explosion to wipe out a…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 1
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Craig Mazin Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Nico Parker, Anna Trov TV-MA The discourse surrounding so called “cinematic video games” is so pervasive nowadays that it’s genuinely hard to remember a time where The Last of Us, originally released in 2013, was seen as revolutionary achievement. And while…
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TV Review: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Episode 6
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Anu Valia Starring Tatiana Maslany, Jameela Jamil, Ginger Gonzaga, Renee Elise Goldsberry TV-14 Out of every MCU shows we’ve had so far, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is the hardest to sustain a conversation about. Not because it’s bad, mind you – the show, as a whole, continues to…
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Film Review: Sick
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by John Hyams Starring Gideon Adlon, Bethlehem Million, Dylan Sprayberry, Joel Courtney R It may seem like an eternity ago, but Kevin Williamson was once the king of the slasher genre. With the double whammy of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, the game was changed.…
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Film Review: White Noise
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Directed by Noah Baumbach Starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy R I’ve never read Don DeLillo’s White Noise. In fact, my only prior experience with DeLillo in general is through David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Cosmopolis, which I found to be one of Cronenberg’s more unique and hard…
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Film Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Rian Johnson Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Dave Bautista PG-13 The original Knives Out‘s breath of fresh air – and surprise box office success – was cut short by the news that Netflix had acquired the rights to it’s now two sequels. Part of Knives Out‘s…
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Film Review: Babylon
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Damien Chazelle Starring Diego Calva, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Jean Smart R WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BABYLON, PARTICULARLY THE 10 LAST MINUTES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Babylon‘s extended opening sequence – which begins with literal elephant shit graphically splayed across the screen and around our lead…
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Film Review: Avatar: The Way of Water
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by James Cameron Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver PG-13 Was there any doubt? I’m pretty sure at this point you’d be a fool to underestimate James Cameron as a filmmaker. The man has defied expectations time and time again to the point where it’s almost…
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Film Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson Starring Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Tilda Swinton PG For some reason, 2022 has been the year of Pinocchio overload. Outside of this widely anticipated version from auteur Guillermo del Toro, there is also another animated version that earlier this year…
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Film Review: The Fabelmans
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen PG-13 If anybody was going to do a biopic on Steven Spielberg, it might as well be the man himself. And that’s pretty much what The Fabelmans is despite all of the names being changed around; this…
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