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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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Film Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Ryan Coogler Starring Letitia Weight, Lupita Nyong’o, Tenoch Huerta, Angela Bassett PG-13 How do you follow up a cinematic milestone? The simple answer is, usually, you don’t, and leave it at that. Black Panther‘s very existence might be mostly the result a studio hoping to expand their universe…
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Film Review: The Banshees of Inisherin
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Martin McDonagh Starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan R I know it’s going to be weird starting off a review about The Banshees of Inisherin by talking about yet more Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri discourse, but here me out. Three Billboards, admittedly, is the…
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Film Review: Memoria
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Starring Tilda Swinton, Elkin Diaz, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego PG A thud in the night is what startles Jessica, our lead, awake. It’s a loud, sudden burst of noise after a long stretch of silence, and the banging never returns. As Jessica lies awake, waiting…
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Film Review: Broker
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda Starring Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Lee Ji-eun, Bae Doona R In terms of cinematic blindspots, Hirokazu Kore-eda has remained one of the biggest in terms of my own personal experience. Outside of general praise from fellow cinephiles and a constant reminder of the strength of his…
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