Category Archives: Superhero

Thor: Love and Thunder review — A few good laughs, but otherwise uninspired

July 8, 2022 flawintheiris

Written by Taika Waititi | Written by Waititi and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson | 119 min | ▲▲△△△ I wonder if anyone would've predicted back in 2011 that Thor would be the first hero to reach four movies by 2022 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his name in the title. I'm sure even fewer would…Read More

Morbius review — Predictably batty, but not the worst

June 13, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Daniel Espinosa | Written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless | 104 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime It still surprises me this movie exists. Due to the weird rules dictating Marvel Comics character licensing, Sony has the rights to a host of villains from the pantheon of Spider-Man comics around which they've…Read More

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review — A big old four-colour mess

May 6, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Raimi | Written by Michael Waldron | 126 min | ▲▲△△△ It's time to recognize that there's something off in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ever since the unparalleled double-whammy of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the features from the House of Ideas have been at best uneven, at worst terrible. Black Widow…Read More

The Batman review — The darkest knight of them all

March 3, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Reeves | Written by Reeves and Peter Craig | 175 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave On the way out of the cinema, I heard a fellow punter say, "Batman was so emo!" In response, her friend said, "Batman's been emo since 1939!" I'm in the sweet spot for this material having read…Read More

A Decade of FITI reviews: Doctor Strange

February 22, 2022 flawintheiris

I've written thousands of reviews over the (actually more than) 10 years of this blog, so I figured it might be fun to go into the vault and bring dusty, perhaps forgotten reviews back into the light. Expect these to show up around once a week for the next little while. I may lightly edit…Read More

The Matrix Trilogy: Revisited

December 24, 2021 flawintheiris

With The Matrix: Resurrections now in cinemas, it seemed an appropriate time to go back to the original films. My 2021 reviews of those movies are below: The Matrix (1999) | Written and Directed by Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski | 136 min | Crave and VOD This is the movie that launched a million memes, internet…Read More

Spider-Man: No Way Home review — Amazing and spectacular, both

December 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon Watts | Written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers | 148 min | Amazon Prime Let's have a chat about the definition of "fan service." It's a term that gets thrown around a lot lately, especially in relation to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's the idea is that these movies' producers are…Read More

Eternals review — Mystifying and muddled Marvel movie

November 5, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Chloé Zhao | Written by Zhao, Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, and Kaz Firpo | 157 min | In Cinemas Lemme be upfront with my connection with this material: I've read comics since I was a kid and I made mine Marvel, but I tended to steer clear of the cosmic tomes like the…Read More

Venom: Let There Be Carnage review — That it’s better than the first is no praise at all

October 4, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Andy Serkis | Written by Kelly Marcel and Tom Hardy based on the Marvel Comics character created by David Micheline and Todd McFarlane | 90 min | Netflix Back in 2018 Tom Hardy quieted any naysayers who might dispute his Hollywood stardom. Sure, he'd been in Inception and Mad Max: Fury Road and…Read More

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings review — Tony Leung is this superhero movie’s MVP

September 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton | Written by Cretton, Dave Callaham, and Andrew Lanham | 132 min | In Cinemas The first thing anyone who might've been a fan of the original Marvel comic, Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu — as problematic as it could sometimes could be — should do coming into this feature is…Read More