Tag Archives: Boyd Holbrook

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review — One more crusade

July 1, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by James Mangold | Written by Mangold, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth and David Koepp | 154 min | ▲▲▲△△ It's a little hard to believe this movie exists, isn't it? This comes 15 years after the last one, the much-derided Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull and 34 years since the end of the original trilogy,… Read More

Predator series review

August 5, 2022 flawintheiris

As a science-fiction series birthed out of slam-bang, macho Hollywood of the 1980s, this one falls behind The Terminator and Alien by some distance. Maybe that's because those pictures have at least two stone cold classics each, while this one, despite a number of attempts to capture the magic of the first, still rides on… Read More

Logan review — Surprisingly moving conclusion to a superhero story

March 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by James Mangold | Written by Mangold, Scott Frank, and Michael Green | 137 min Hugh Jackman's essayed the Canadian mutant superhero Wolverine in nine pictures since the X-Men in 2000. Logan is where he sheathes his claws. He saved the nearly best for last—X2: X-Men United remains my favourite movie of the franchise and its… Read More

Run All Night review — Liam Neeson brings it

March 12, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Brad Ingelsby Liam Neeson: action icon. It would have been hard to believe 10 years ago, even though he once played a superhero in Darkman. Neeson's found a professional niche comparable to what Robert Mitchum used to do, or late career Charles Bronson. That said, his efforts in the action… Read More