The Flash review — The Anti-Snyder Cut

Directed by Andy Muschietti | Written by Christina Hodson and Joby Harold | 144 min | ▲▲▲▲△ The Flash is a superhero movie with an almost insurmountable hill to climb. It's set solidly in the multiverse subgenre of fantasy pictures, following two beloved animated Spider-Man movies, one live-action, a middling-at-best Dr Strange movie, and the… Read More

Top 10 Movies of 2022

Happy Holidays to you, FITI reader! I hope you're getting some downtime and seeing a few good films this season. Here's the official FLAW IN THE IRIS list of the best movies of 2022, arriving a little earlier than it usually does in the first or second week of January. That's partly due to my… Read More

2022 Academy Awards Predictions

First off I should say that I'm not generally someone who wins the Oscar ballot. I let my heart lead me to some unlikely places, and then get disappointed by the inevitable political victories. And there are plenty of other professional prognosticators paid to pontificate on potential prize-winners if you'd care to peruse their predictions.… Read More

A little FITI housekeeping…

Hello new and regular visitors to Flaw In The Iris. Thank you for stopping by. If you've been checking out my reviews for awhile, you'll notice new banners rotating at the top of the page. Though the name of the blog is inspired by a line of dialogue from Chinatown, and the image of Jack… Read More

Academy Award Nominations #Reaction

The nominations for the '22 Academy Awards dropped on Tuesday morning, and as with every Hollywood awards season there were expectations met and expectations dashed. There's also the few naysayers who took to social media to say these awards are antiquated and irrelevant. They groused. They whined. They said, "Who cares?" That question's been asked… Read More

Best of 2010-2019: 20 to 11

This is the third part of my list of the top 40 movies of the decade. Go here to see the first part of it, which includes details of my selection criteria. Here's the second part, and the final part.  This part of the list counts down from 20 to 11, including a number of… Read More