Tag Archives: Ryan Reynolds

Ghosted review — Abysmal action-comedy schlock

April 24, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Dexter Fletcher | Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Chris McKenna, and Erik Sommers | 116 min | ▲△△△△ | Apple TV+ I was pretty sure this was gonna be a difficult watch when someone says, "I think she might be the one!" It’s a line by Chris Evans' character early on in… Read More

Spirited review — Lots of singing in this Christmas Carol

December 5, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Sean Anders | Written by Anders and John Morris | 127 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Apple TV+ We open on a deeply troubled woman — named Karen, of course, played by Rose Byrne — getting sucked into a grave, but this picture's not nearly as grim as all that. This creepy opening scene… Read More

Bullet Train review — Action comedy goes off the rails

August 15, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by David Leitch | Written by Zak Olkewicz, from a novel by Kôtarô Isaka | 127 min | ▲▲△△△ | Amazon Prime Back in the 1990s, the success of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction spawned a collection of "Tarantino-esque" gangster pictures with titles like Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead,… Read More

Free Guy review — Fluffy good times with Ryan Reynolds

August 23, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Shawn Levy | Written by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn | 115 min | In Cinemas Free Guy is a mild and pleasant surprise. Like so many modern blockbusters, it's imbued with the DNA of a bunch of other, better movies, but it still manages to distinguish itself by being both a big-budget… Read More

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 5 — Stinkers

August 5, 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've been doing here on FITI since 2010. I still have a… Read More

Deadpool 2 review — Zip it, Thanos!

May 24, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by David Leitch | Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Ryan Reynolds | 119 min You know, I've never thought irony was that funny. It makes movies like Deadpool or its sequel hard for me to love—the prime mover of laughs just isn't my bag. But I recognize what Ryan Reynolds and his… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: Spring 2018

May 10, 2018 flawintheiris

Mute (2018) A sci-fi thriller half a mess and half an interesting exercise in style. That it comes from Duncan Jones, the filmmaker responsible for Moon, Source Code, and, yes, Warcraft, hopes were high this would be a strong genre entry, but Mute never hits above its pulpy elements. We're in future Berlin, which looks… Read More

Life (2017) review — Deeply derivative yet credibly creepy space horror

April 1, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Daniel Espinosa | Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick | 104 min A trusted cinepanion who watched Life before me suggested it's best to think of it as a Roger Corman movie with a massive budget. It certainly could be—it aspires to Alien, to Gravity, while punching at a level somewhere beneath Event Horizon.… Read More

Deadpool review — The Mouth Makes It Work

February 16, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Tim Miller, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, based on a character created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△ Deadpool was a genuine novelty when he first showed up in comics. Wise-ass and self-aware with a big fourth-wall-breaking mouth, he's a comic book character who knows he's a… Read More

Reviews: Mississippi Grind, Heist, Kilo Two Bravo

December 7, 2015 flawintheiris

Recent releases available on VOD and Blu-Ray that didn't screen in Halifax cinemas. Mississippi Grind Written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△ Ben Mendelsohn is Gerry, a scruffy, hard-up gambler in Iowa who "owes money to everyone." On one of his losing streaks he connects with Curtis (Ryan Reynolds),… Read More