Tag Archives: Ridley Scott

Napoleon review — It’s a long wait for Waterloo

November 26, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by David Scarpa | 158 min | ▲▲△△△ Sir Ridley Scott, now in his 80s, continues to show he's one of Hollywood's great visual stylists. What he isn't is a writer, so while the director of Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator has made a number of… Read More

House of Gucci review — Could’ve been a camp classic. It isn’t.

November 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna, from a book by Sara Gay Forden | 157 min | Amazon Prime Now in his 80s, Ridley Scott is still a supreme stylist with a seemingly unquenchable thirst to make movies. Given his track record of quality — Alien, Blade Runner and… Read More

The Last Duel review — Potent story gets stuck in Rashomon mud

October 21, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon based on books by Eric Jager | 152 min | Crave Plus It's late 14th Century Normandy, where aristocratic men wear armour and strut about doing what they like, puffing up with pride, while women suffer at their hands. That's the… Read More

All The Money In The World review — Plummer impresses, the film doesn’t

January 3, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by David Scarpa, based on a book by John Pearson | 132 min My LENS ME YOUR EARS podcast co-host Stephen Cooke and I discovered in a recent look at the films of Ridley Scott that the man's feature-film work going back to The Duellists (1977) is a catalogue… Read More

LENS ME YOUR EARS on Blade Runners and Ridley Scott

November 23, 2017 flawintheiris

I'm thrilled to announce the arrival online of the Blade Runner 2049 episode, where Stephen Cooke and I discuss the recent sci-fi picture still in cinemas, the original from back in 1982, and films by filmmaker, Ridley Scott. The British director is prolific and still very busy. We mentioned he was working on that JP Getty… Read More

Preparing for Blade Runner 2049

October 4, 2017 flawintheiris

It's hard to overestimate the lasting impression of Blade Runner in my film life. I can't remember the first time I saw it. It was released 35 years ago, on June 25, 1982. I was not yet 12, but I must have seen it shortly after it was first released, probably drawn by the idea… 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

Morgan review — Pulpy but Satisfying Science Fiction

September 7, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Luke Scott | Written by Seth W. Owen | 92 min. | ▲▲▲△△ Nice to see young directors go into the family business. Consider Sofia Coppola and her many excellent films, or more recently, Brandon Cronenberg's body horror Antiviral, which evoked some of his father David's work. Now we've got Luke Scott, son of Ridley, with Dad… Read More

The Martian review — Deep Space Hokum

October 2, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by Drew Goddard from a book by Andy Weir | 141 min Sometimes professionalism is its own reward, and sometimes it isn't. Ridley Scott is a craftsperson of the highest order, and here he delivers a very well-made film crammed with entertainment, if you can manage to ignore the… Read More

Reviews From The Vault: Vol. 1

August 27, 2015 flawintheiris

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called 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