Tag Archives: Jamie Foxx

Spider-Man: No Way Home review — Amazing and spectacular, both

December 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon Watts | Written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers | 148 min | Netflix Let's have a chat about the definition of "fan service." It's a term that gets thrown around a lot lately, especially in relation to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's the idea is that these movies' producers are pandering… Read More

Soul review — Another impressive effort from Pixar

January 2, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Pete Docter and Kemp Powers | Written by Docter, Powers, and Mike Jones | 100 min | Disney + What have we learned about the wizards at Pixar in the past 25-or-so years? When the Disney-owned, San Francisco-based, digital animation filmmakers are on their game, they're some of the best storytellers working in… Read More

Just Mercy review — Legal drama sticks to convention

January 9, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton | Written by Cretton and Andrew Lanham, based on the book by Bryan Stevenson | 136 min | Netflix We've seen good movies based on great books, and great movies based on bad books. We've also seen good movies somehow knitted from threadbare reality, and disappointing, clumsy ones based on… Read More

Robin Hood (2018) review — Turgid actioner departs from myth for lame superheroics

November 26, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Otto Bathurst | Written by Ben Chandler and David James Kelly | 116 min One of the reasons myths and folk tales are so popularly adapted—along with the ease with marketing a recognizable, yet public domain brand—is their elasticity. You can update it, change it, as much as you like, so long as… Read More

Baby Driver review — Wheelman can’t drive 55

June 30, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Edgar Wright | 113 min It feels like Brits want Edgar Wright to be their own personal Tarantino, the pop-culture obsessed filmmaker who will absorb all those Hollywood influences and create perfect, post-modern genre films for the 21st Century. He succeeded the first time out of the gate with Shaun Of The… Read More

A Cult Of One: Miami Vice

April 9, 2017 flawintheiris

This is a semi-regular feature on FITI where I highlight an older film that doesn't get much love but I believe is worth discovering... or rediscovering. Written and directed by Michael Mann, based on the TV series by Mann and Anthony Yerkovich | 134 min | 2006 When people talk about Michael Mann's best work, they… Read More

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review

May 3, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Marc Webb Written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner and James Vanderbilt, adapting the Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko My friend Dave, who loves superhero movies, and I disagreed on this one, and I had to admit that maybe my enjoyment of it was at least partly the… Read More

Django Unchained review

January 5, 2013 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Quentin TarantinoI suppose it was inevitable that Tarantino would get grief about his movie Django Unchained, a western that takes place in the antebellum south. It's a grand adventure that borrows a lot from Sergio Leone, but with no hesitation in the script to use what we all euphemistically call "the… Read More

Horrible Bosses review

July 6, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Seth Gordon Written by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein If you've seen the trailer, you know the deal. Three buddies, Nick (Jason Bateman) Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) complain to each other over beers that they each have the world's worst boss. Nick's boss Harken (Kevin Spacey,… Read More