Category Archives: Science Fiction/Fantasy

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse review — Exalted but exhausting

June 4, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson | Written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham | 140 min | ▲▲▲△△ | In Cinemas When I saw the first entry in this animated Spider-Man franchise, I was certainly in the minority for not gushing wildly over it. It's good, but the…Read More

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 review — The best MCU in light years

May 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by James Gunn | 150 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | In Cinemas I've gone on the record complaining about the Marvel Studios output in recent years — a distinct drop off from their heady days of the double-whammy: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. They've picked up the slack with the excellent stable…Read More

The Five Devils review — French fantasy illuminates real life concerns

April 27, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Léa Mysius | Written by Mysius and Paul Guilhaume | 95 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Carbon Arc Cinema Here's an odd one, but a film that is certain to tickle the fancy of anyone who has time for a little magic realism and the strange, intangible connections between a mother, daughter, and aunt.…Read More

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves review — It isn’t magical

April 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein | Written by Daley, Goldstein, and Michael Gilio | 134 min | ▲▲△△△ The cinematic history of this globally popular role-playing game isn't exactly stellar. Back in 2000 there was a feature starring Marlon Wayans, Thora Birch, and Jeremy Irons, a theatrical bomb that still…Read More

Spiderhead review — Too obvious execution betrays interesting concept

April 1, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Joseph Kosinski | Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, based on the short story by George Saunders | 106 min | ▲▲△△△ | Netflix What we have here is a little sci-fi drama spiked with tech anxiety, very much in the style of Black Mirror, an inspiration we’re seeing a lot of…Read More

65 review — Adam Driver + Dinosaurs. What’s not to like?

March 23, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods | 93 min | ▲▲▲△△ You know what you're getting here in the opening moments when text across the screen suggests we're visiting a time before "the advent of mankind." Putting aside the tiresome gendered language, moments later we're introduced to a family on a beach…Read More

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review — Psychedelic fun with tiny superhero family

February 20, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed | Written by Jeff Loveness | 125 min | ▲▲▲△△ In the past couple of years the vastly successful experiment that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe has lost its way. After the high points of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the new movies haven't had the narrative coherence, urgency, nor the…Read More

Knock At The Cabin review — Disappointed at the end of the world

February 11, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by M Night Shyamalan | Written by Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, and Michael Sherman, based on the book The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay | 100 min | ▲▲△△△ | Amazon Prime I've always admired M Night Shyamalan's willingness to set his films in entirely recognizable realities but still push…Read More

M3GAN review — Batteries charged for killer doll movie

January 16, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Gerard Johnstone | Written by Akela Cooper and James Wan | 102 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime Writer-Producer-Director James Wan has some experience with murderous doll movies, but this isn't any Annabelle picture, this is something quite different. M3GAN, and, yeah, that's a title the producers are bound to regret when they…Read More

Shin Ultraman review — Bizarro bombast from Japan

January 12, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Shinji Higuchi | Written by Hideaki Anno | 118 min | ▲▲▲△△ | In Cinemas (Cineplex Event Screen) I wasn't especially familiar with the Japanese Ultraman series beyond knowing it showed up in the 1960s in the genre shared with Godzilla (Toho Studios is a producer here) with all those radioactive monsters known…Read More