Tag Archives: Gal Gadot

Heart of Stone review — Mission: Impassive

August 16, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom Harper | Written by Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder | 122 min | ▲▲△△△ | On Netflix We've been hearing lately about these big-budget action movies showing up on streaming services, pictures so dumbed-down audiences could still spend most of the movie looking at their phones and not miss much. They're called… Read More

Shazam! Fury Of The Gods review — The Big Red Cheese fights gods and monsters

June 13, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by David F. Sandberg | Written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan | 130 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave Here's a tough movie to review. Like the first Shazam! movie this is entirely aimed at the pre-teen set, a four-colour superhero movie actually for kids. That's not a bad thing, right? I won't deny… Read More

Death on the Nile (1978, 2022) review — It’s worth booking passage on Branagh’s boat, but Peter Ustinov will always be the best

February 20, 2022 flawintheiris

Death on the Nile (1978) | Directed by John Guillermin | Written by Anthony Shaffer from the novel by Agatha Christie | 140 min | ▲▲▲▲△| Criterion Channel As I mentioned back when I reviewed Ken Branagh's take on Murder On The Orient Express in 2017, it was Guillermin's Death on the Nile that introduced… Read More

Zack Snyder’s Justice League review — Better than the theatrical cut, but twice as long

March 24, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Zack Snyder | Written by Snyder, Chris Terrio, and Will Beall | 242 min | Crave Plus/HBO Max When I was a kid, all I wished was that people would take comics as seriously as I did. Zach Snyder's career is a testament to the truism: "Be careful what you wish for." His… Read More

Wonder Woman 1984 review — Amazonian return a mixed bag

December 28, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Patty Jenkins | Written by Jenkins, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callaham | 153 min | Crave Plus and On Demand The long delayed superhero sequel finally arrives with a jolt of frisson. It's been so long since we've seen a full-on blockbuster of this sort, even if most of us — in Halifax… Read More

Justice League review — Not a disaster, but DC does no justice to its heroes

November 23, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Zack Snyder | Written by Snyder, Chris Terrio, and Joss Whedon | 120 min Growing up, I was more of a Marvel guy than a DC guy, with the exception of Batman,Teen Titans, and Keith Giffen's work (with Paul Levitz) on The Legion of Superheroes and (with JM DeMatteis) his comedic take on Justice League… Read More

Wonder Woman review — Amazon Warrior For The Win

June 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Patty Jenkins | Written by Allan Heinberg, Jason Fuchs, and Zack Snyder | 142 min That sound you heard this past weekend was the massive, communal exhale by millions of filmgoers who made Wonder Woman the huge hit it deserves to be. The movie is the long-awaited female-led summer superhero picture that matches… Read More

The Fate Of The Furious review — Pistons pop and fizzle

April 16, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by F. Gary Gray | Written by Chris Morgan, based on characters by Gary Scott Thompson | 136 min We've been promised a final trilogy of movies to take us across this franchise's finish line—and that we even got this far is kind of amazing. This whole shooting match started as a low-budget exploitation picture,… Read More

Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice review

March 25, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Zack Snyder | Written by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer | 152 min. | ▲▲△△△ What a mess. That remark was one of my cinepanion's first upon leaving the cinema after this battle of comic book titans, and I can't deny her point of view. Zack Snyder's new, sprawling feature tries to do… Read More

Triple 9 review — Guns and guts in peach tree country

March 1, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by John Hillcoat | Written by Matt Cook | 115 min | ▲▲▲△△ Australian director Hillcoat is a deliverer of masculine, violent genre tales such as The Proposition and Lawless. While he's not colluding with his partner-in-crime Nick Cave this time out, this picture isn't much of a departure in a story of (mostly) bad men. If anything the… Read More