Category Archives: Science Fiction/Fantasy

Avatar: Fire and Ash review — Jim Cameron’s indigenous fantasy redux

December 22, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by James Cameron | Written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman, and Shane Salerno | 197 min | ▲▲1/2 | In Cinemas James Cameron is the most successful Canadian filmmaker in history by the simple measure of box office returns. It's hard to deny he knows what audiences want, going back to…Read More

Eternity review — Is there love after life?

November 25, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by David Freyne | Written by Freyne and Patrick Cunnane | ▲▲▲ A whimsical drama in the tradition of afterlife examinations like It’s A Wonderful Life or Heaven Can Wait, Eternity is a pleasant surprise. An elderly couple, Larry and Joan (Barry Primus and Betty Buckley) who’ve been together for 65 years die within…Read More

Wicked For Good review — The big songs carry the day

November 19, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon M Chu | Written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, based on the musical by Stephen Schwartz and the novel by Gregory Maguire | ▲▲▲1/2 | In Cinemas Here it is, the sequel to Wicked: Part One, which came out to substantial box office last November, an adaptation of the award-winning and…Read More

The Running Man (2025) review — Fast out of the blocks, but stumbles

November 18, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Michael Bacall, based on the Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) novel | 133 min | ▲▲1/2 This movie is both better than expected and yet not as good as was hoped. Compared to the previous work of the wildly talented British filmmaker Edgar Wright, including…Read More

Predator: Badlands review — Another rote sci-fi franchise entry

November 11, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg | Written by Trachtenberg and Patrick Aison | 107 min | ▲▲ A few years ago Dan Trachtenberg surprised many with his excellent stealth Predator sequel, Prey, one of those cases where a streaming release (on Disney+, go watch it if you haven't) should've also opened in cinemas — Prey so…Read More

From The Vault: The Running Man (1987) review

November 10, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Paul Michael Glaser | Written by Steven E. de Souza, from the Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) novel | 101 min | ▲▲ | Netflix It's deeply weird how much Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Running Man reminds me of One Battle After Another. It's not the science fiction elements as much as the reality…Read More

Bugonia review — The weirdness that won’t be denied

November 1, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Will Tracy, adapting the screenplay by Jang Joon-hwan's Save The Green Planet | ▲▲▲1/2 Emma Stone is Michelle Fuller, a CEO of a big pharma company that's a major employer in a depressed suburban zone that could be anywhere in the United States. She's an ambitious and fierce…Read More

Frankenstein review — Monstrously beautiful, but it shambles

October 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapting the novel by Mary Shelley | 149 min | ▲▲▲ | Netflix An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI during the Toronto International Film Festival 2025. Guillermo del Toro has said this is the film he's always wanted to make, an epic, two-and-half-hour adaptation of…Read More

Good Fortune review — Keanu’s terrific in Aziz Ansari’s social issue comedy

October 20, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Aziz Ansari | 97 min | ▲▲1/2 There's a genuine novelty of a full-on comedy opening in cinemas in 2025, which is kind of a shame. There are so few of these. It's also kind of a treat that Good Fortune's fantasy scenario feels like it might be a delightful successor…Read More

Tron: Ares review — Greetings programs! What’s the Error Code?

October 11, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Joachim Rønning | Written by David DiGilio and Jesse Wigutow, based on characters created by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird | ▲▲ Is Tron the least loved science fiction franchise to span over 40 years? I see the cult around its production design, video games, and music — the soundtracks of each of…Read More