Tag Archives: Sharlto Copley

Monkey Man review — Dev Patel delivers a sweaty, genre-bending thriller

April 7, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Dev Patel | Written by Patel, Paul Angunawela, and John Collee | 121 min | ▲▲▲△△ | In Cinemas Who knew that Dev Patel had these chops as a filmmaker? I'm usually pretty skeptical when a star steps behind the camera and then puts themselves in the lead role of their first feature,… Read More

Free Fire review — Guns in a Warehouse. The End.

April 19, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Ben Wheatley | Written by Wheatley and Amy Jump | 90 min Free Fire may be set in the 1970s, but it feels entirely like one of the forgotten post-Tarantino gangster pictures of the late '90s, back when everyone loved Reservoir Dogs and every studio was willing to sink money into low-budget, wordy gangster… Read More

Hardcore Henry review — First Person Pulverizing

April 13, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Ilya Naishuller | Written by Naishuller and Will Stewart | 96 min | ▲▲△△△ For years Hollywood's been adapting video games into movies and filmmakers like Michael Bay and Zack Snyder have been inspired by video game visuals in their filmmaking. It makes sense that someone would try to narrow that gap between media,… Read More

Chappie review — scrappy (but not too crappy) scifi

March 12, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell This picture is getting a lot of flack for its various issues, not the least of which is its considerable similarity—at least in the early going—to Robocop, and its considerable similarity—later on in the running —to Short Circuit. But despite that, within its rough-around-the-edges construction,… Read More

Elysium review

August 11, 2013 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Neill Blomkamp | 109 min | Netflix Blomkamp impressed everyone—including Academy voters, who nominated the film for a Best Picture Oscar—with his first movie, District 9. The South African-born, Vancouver-educated filmmaker made a slam-bang science fiction movie with definitive visual flair that even offered a tang of political allegory in the… Read More