Tag Archives: David Fincher

The Killer (2023) review — A clinic in suspense

October 30, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by David Fincher | Written by Andrew Kevin Walker, based on the graphic novel by Alexis 'Matz' Nolent and Luc Jacamon | 118 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix This weekend I read that David Fincher shared rough assemblies of The Killer with fellow director Steven Soderbergh, who helped him edit it. This makes all… Read More

Podcast Update: LENS ME YOUR EARS on David Fincher and Mank!

December 1, 2020 flawintheiris

Despite these difficult days of COVID, Stephen Cooke and I have kept up with our co-hosting duties on LENS ME YOUR EARS, the film podcast — all recorded remotely. In the past while we've discussed films by indigenous filmmakers, courtroom dramas, and mind- and body-swap movies. Inspired by the arrival of Mank, the new David… Read More

Mank review — Fincher’s ode to Old Hollywood is clever, good-looking, and self-aware

November 23, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by David Fincher | Written by Jack Fincher | 131 min | In Cinemas, on Netflix from December 4, 2020 On the face of it, this is an unlikely pairing of filmmaker and subject: The master of the modern, chilly thriller, David Fincher, making a movie about the writing of the Oscar-winning script for… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

Top 10 of 1999

March 19, 2019 flawintheiris

20 years ago, Hollywood had a great 12 months. Maybe it was pre-millennial tension, or just a confluence of great talent and risk-taking producers and studios, but it was a moment that wasn't to be repeated in the years following. I enjoy putting together lists of the best films from years gone by, and the… Read More

The Girl in the Spider’s Web review — Stylish thriller is too Bond-ed for comfort

November 12, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Fede Alvarez | Written by Alvarez, Jay Basu, and Steven Knight, from the book by David Lagercrantz, based on characters by Stieg Larsson | 117 min For Sony Columbia to dive back into this popular series of books so late in the game feels like a calculated gamble, but not one likely to… Read More

Alien: Covenant review — Mostly very familiar territory. Mostly.

May 21, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by John Logan, Dante Harper, Jack Paglen, and Michael Green | 122 min | Disney + The Alien series, which bloodily thrust its way into existence in 1979 with Ridley Scott's original, is very much its own genre—described narrowly as somewhere between a haunted house in space and a slasher movie… Read More

Alien series review

January 20, 2014 flawintheiris

Alien (1979) Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett | 117 min | Crave Plus Alien has been around so long it's kind of hard to imagine the world without those cute lil' exomorphs that kinda look like stainless steel dildos with teeth. When I was a kid I remember… Read More

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) review

December 26, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by David Fincher Written by Steven Zaillian from the Stieg Larsson novel It's been a bit hard to judge the cultural excitement around this movie. The novels remain huge international bestsellers, and in Canada and elsewhere in the world besides the US, we've made the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium trilogy a hit franchise.… Read More

“David Fincher on Film Critics”

December 7, 2011 flawintheiris

Here's a brief and interesting interview with David Fincher, whose Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is but weeks from opening wide. It's in response to New Yorker critic David Denby ignoring an embargo and publishing his review of the film long before its December 22 arrival. Though I understand what Fincher is saying here, especially… Read More