Tag Archives: Jason Momoa

Fast X review — 10 x dumb, mostly fun

May 19, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Louis Leterrier | Written by Dan Mazeau and Justin Lin | 141 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime So, what is my Fast & Furious ranking — I hear nobody ask. I'll get to that, but if you'd like a fuller picture — I did a franchise review on this well-oiled machine about… Read More

Dune review — A cinematic feast

October 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Denis Villeneuve | Written by Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts, and Eric Roth, based on the Frank Herbert book | 155 min | Netflix Oh, how we have waited for Dune. Of all the 2020 features postponed by the pandemic, this is the one I was most looking forward to seeing, and seeing on the… 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

Aquaman review — Fishy adventure, splashy fun

December 28, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by James Wan | Written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall, with Geoff Johns | 143 min | Netflix Every once in awhile, following a bunch of self-serious, mediocre films, one comes along that knows it isn't Shakespeare, and doesn't care. It's a good-bad movie, and it embraces its inner cheese and its… 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

The Bad Batch review — Post-Apunkalypse Now

June 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour | 118 min | On VOD Iranian-American auteur Amirpour's first feature was the dreamy, black-and-white vampire picture A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, shot in California with her actors all speaking Persian. It was a stylish statement of intent from a Jarmusch-esque filmmaker, and its follow-up—though in English… Read More

Five reboots I’d like to see

November 4, 2013 flawintheiris

This is really a case of If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em. I've gone on record saying I'm dubious of reboots, relaunches and reimaginings on film and TV. So rarely are those efforts to replicate and update original material anything near as much fun as what spawned it. But, hey, nobody is listening to… Read More

Conan the Barbarian (2011) review

August 21, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Marcus NispelWritten by Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood, fromthe Robert E. Howard characterConan The Barbarian is violent, bloody fantasy, a relentless collection of action sequences barely strung together around a revenge plot and a couple of nasty supernatural villains. It's big, burly and not very smart. In other words, it's… Read More