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Anime Review: The Beginning After the End, Episode 1
By Matthew Moorcroft No Recommendation All images are courtesy of Crunchyroll. Fantasy anime has a dire problem. For every Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End or Delicious in Dungeon, fantasy anime for the past decade have seemingly been made on autopilot, existing for the sole purpose of filling out a seasonal block or some kind of adaptation…
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Film Review: Mickey 17
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Finally arriving after several lengthy delays, Mickey 17 could not have been more timely. I don’t know how much it predicted much of the current political climate – likely none of intentionally, as it was written and shot long before the 2024 US elections as well as much of the…
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Film Review: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR GQUUUUUUX INVOLVING PLOT POINTS THAT ARE NOT PRESENT IN THE ORIGINAL MARKETING. PLEASE READ AT YOUR OWN PERIL. We are going into the tail end of Gundam‘s 4th decade of being one of the biggest pop culture juggernauts out of Japan, and in the…
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Film Review: The Monkey
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation There are two kinds of horror films. This statement is hyperbole, obviously, but for the sake of the argument, there are two; your Rube Goldberg machines and your simple calculators. The latter are ones that focus in on a singular idea through either complicated means or slow builds that are…
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Film Review: Paddington in Peru
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation It’s been over a decade since the release of the original Paddington film, and in that time both it and it’s sequel have become something of a sacred ground for modern children’s films. While so much of this is rightly attributed to director Paul King and his whimsical vision for…
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Film Review: Captain America: Brave New World
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure It really feels like Captain America: Brave New World has come out like at least like five times already. The long gestating project, subject to numerous reshoots, a writers and actors strike, and story changes in the midst of an ever-evolving political landscape, feels like a movie that was always on…
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Film Review: Ne Zha 2
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation If you haven’t heard of Ne Zha, you will probably hear about it very soon. Over in it’s native China, Ne Zha, and more specifically it’s sequel, has become something of a pop culture phenomenon, breaking records of all kinds and becoming the first film to make over a billion…
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Film Review: Companion
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation While it’s reputation as a dumping ground hasn’t been completely unfounded, in recent years January has slowly but surely also developed a reputation for putting stranger, more out there affairs for studios who may not be confident in their overall success. Just two years ago saw the release of M3GAN…
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Film Review: The Brutalist
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Made for only $9.6 million, The Brutalist feels like a towering feat. It is in itself a statement; a huge, monumental picture that feels huge and monumental while only using a fraction of the resources that is normally given to a feature like this. Very fitting that a film about…
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Film Review: Wicked
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Getting a Wicked movie always felt like something of a weird pipedream. Seemingly in development for a decade and talked about for even longer, by the time it got to our movie screens it almost feels like a nostalgia property rather then a hot of the Broadway ticket adaptation that…
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