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Film Review: Eddington
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Online brainrot is everywhere in Eddington, both the movie and the titular New Mexico town that it’s set in. The pandemic is in full force, with mask mandates everywhere, the town in complete lockdown, and an election on the horizon. And everybody is on their phones, their computers, the internet,…
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Film Review: Superman
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Superhero movies have come a long way. Nowadays it’s almost seemingly impossible to escape, a necessary – for better and for worse – part of the cinematic landscape whose presence feels like an inevitability. Every time we think they are going away or that audiences are somehow sick of them,…
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Film Review: F1
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Do you like things that go fast? F1 really hopes that you do. From it’s first moments that recount the quick crash that our lead character has to contend with as his trauma, F1 speeds you to the racing line and almost never leaves it, with every conservation afterwards either…
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Film Review: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation At the start of The Final Reckoning, humanity is a crisis. Marshall law is in effect, the nuclear weapon systems of several major nations are hacked into, and a doomsday cult following the The Entity, the major AI villain from the last Mission: Impossible film, has infiltrated every layer of…
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Film Review: The Phoenician Scheme
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation It’s not everyday that Wes Anderson begins his movies with a literal bang, but The Phoenician Scheme certainly does, as Benecio del Toro’s Zsa-Zsa Korda finds himself plummeting to Earth in a burning wreckage of a plane after an assassination attempt. It doesn’t work, obviously, but it does leave Zsa-Zsa…
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Film Review: Ballerina
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation What is the real appeal of the John Wick films? Is it the action sequences, which are meticulously crafted by franchise overseerer and director Chad Stahelski? Is Keanu himself, his unique screen presence giving the franchise it’s own interesting energy? Or is it the mythology, which feels like a living…
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Film Review: Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Led by phenomenally creative animation and a wildly creative – if raunchy – setup, Dan Da Dan was the anime to beat in 2024. Coming at a time of seeming stagnation in the shonen sphere, it was a breath of fresh air whose B-movie influences mixed in with wacky, surrealist…
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Film Review: Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing
By Matthew Moorcroft Weak Recommendation Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing is, just like it’s long-winded title implies, a movie. It has three acts, it has characters with some semblance of personality, a clear thesis statement about it’s themes and ideas, and it even has something of a character arc for it’s…
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Film Review: Thunderbolts*
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation At this point, it’s becoming more common to view each MCU installment as a self-reflexive, meta-textual comment on it’s own existence rather then a standalone picture in it’s own right. As frustrating as it is that these can’t just be their own right, Thunderbolts* (yes the asterisk is part of…
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Film Review: Sinners
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Laced with immediate texture in it’s 65mm frames and gorgeous southern locales, Sinners – the first non-franchise film from Ryan Coogler since his stellar debut in 2013 – is the rare film that makes it’s first impressions strong and stays strong throughout it’s entire runtime. Just like the blues that…
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