Tag Archives: Zachary Quinto

Reviews: Hotel Artemis, Wildlife, Searching

March 1, 2019 flawintheiris

Hotel Artemis Writer-Producer Drew Pearce delivers a fairly original b-movie/sci-fi/crime drama for his debut as a feature filmmaker. It's 2028, and Los Angeles is going up in flames due to a city-wide riot, but the Artemis is busy. It's a clinic for criminals, where the patients are named after their room allocations. I said original, but… Read More

Snowden review — Stone chooses drama over suspense

September 16, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Oliver Stone | Written by Stone and Keiran Fitzgerald, based on books by Anatoly Kucherena and Luke Harding | 134 min | ▲▲△△△ I have to own my bias on this one, just as I did with Pawn Sacrifice and another Joseph Gordon Levitt feature The Walk: These movies are all fictionalized takes on real… Read More

Star Trek Beyond review — Trek Out of Darkness

July 23, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Justin Lin | Written by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung, based on the Gene Roddenberry TV series | 120 min | ▲▲▲△△ We start three years into the Starship Enterprise's five year mission. That's a clever reference to where the original show left off, three seasons in. This is also the third movie in… Read More

Star Trek Into Darkness review

May 21, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by JJ Abrams, Written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof, based on the Gene Roddenberry TV series | Prime Video It's been reported that JJ Abrams didn't grow up having been a big fan of Star Trek. I've had trouble finding the direct quote online, but the impression I got from having… Read More

Margin Call review

December 18, 2011 flawintheiris

Written and directed by JC ChandorMargin Call arrived in cinemas near me with not much fanfare, which is a shame as it's all kinds of good.It's the summer of 2008 at some Lehmann Brothers-esque New York investment bank, full of morally bankrupt fat cats. Well, maybe it's not as simple as that, but it's hard… Read More