Tag Archives: Sigourney Weaver

Master Gardener review — Thriller gets lost in the weeds

May 18, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Paul Schrader | 111 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix I often think about casting, and how a project can sink or swim depending on who gets put in the key roles. Sometimes if it's a poor fit it isn't really about the skill or charisma of the actor, sometimes it's… Read More

Avatar: The Way of Water review — Spectacular and stupid

December 22, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by James Cameron | Written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman, and Shane Salerno | 192 min | ▲▲△△△ Rewatching the original Avatar last week I was reminded of Jim Cameron's incredible ambition, impressive technical wizardry, and cluelessness when it comes to reading the room, culturally speaking. The dude understands allegory and… Read More

Avatar (2009) review — Some good, a lot bad in box office giant

December 15, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by James Cameron | 162 min | ▲▲△△△ | Disney + Having not seen Avatar since the week it opened in cinemas in 2009, I figured it was important to revisit the world-conquering cultural phenomenon before I bought a ticket for the much delayed sequel opening today. In my memory the largely… Read More

The Good House review — Sigourney Weaver makes it work

September 30, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky | Written by Forbes, Wolodarsky, and Thomas Bezucha, based on the novel by Ann Leary | 114 min | ▲▲▲△△ This is a curious one; a shot-on-the-South-Shore-of-Nova Scotia dramedy starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline, which is no small matter in the casting stakes: This is a Dave… Read More

Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters (1984), and Ghostbusters II (1989) reviews

November 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason Reitman | Written by Reitman and Gil Kenan, based on Ghostbusters written by Harold Ramis, Dan Akyroyd, and an uncredited Rick Moranis | 124 min | Netflix Another "legacequel" comes down the pike, and on the surface this seems like the most cynical kind of Hollywood factory product. "Oh, so you whiny Ghostbusters… Read More

My Salinger Year review — New York writer makes it after all

March 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Philippe Falardeau | Written by Falardeau, based on the novel by Joanna Smith Rakoff | 101 min | Crave Plus There's the Coming Of Age movie, the Ambitious Youth Comes To The Big City movie, and the Fish Out Of Water movie, and My Salinger Year is a cross section of all three.… 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

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

Exodus: Gods And Kings — Biblical blah blah

December 16, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott, Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Jeffrey Caine, and Steven Zaillian When I saw Noah earlier this year, I wondered who it was made for. Studio heads must be thinking with the right Biblical story they might have another Passion Of The Christ-level success, getting the devout Christians out to the movies.… Read More

Alien series review

January 20, 2014 flawintheiris

Alien (1979) Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett | 117 min | Crave Plus Alien has been around so long it's kind of hard to imagine the world without those cute lil' exomorphs that kinda look like stainless steel dildos with teeth. When I was a kid I remember… Read More