Tag Archives: Aaron Eckhart

Reviews: London Town, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Calvary, London Has Fallen

February 4, 2017 flawintheiris

London Town Directed by Derrick Borte | Written by Matt Brown, based on the screenplay Untitled Joe Strummer Project by Sonya Gildea and Kirsten Sheridan | 92 min | iTunes and VOD Shay Baker (Daniel Huttlestone) is a 14-year-old living in '70s Wanstead, an East London suburb. Dad Nick (Dougray Scott) moves pianos for a… Read More

Sully review — Moustaches help, but there’s something off in Eastwood’s plane crash drama

September 19, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Clint Eastwood | Written by Todd Komarnicki, adapting the book by Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow | 96 min | ▲▲▲△△ A filmmaker in his 80s, Eastwood is someone whose public persona has been getting crustier and more conservative as he's aged. It's tempting to read those political leanings in his filmmaking choices as many… Read More

Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy review

July 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Watching Interstellar for a third time, I felt very much like I had a sense of what Christopher Nolan was going for. But it took three views to really feel like I got it. I love that, when movies have enough depth and complexity that it takes more than one viewing to fully grasp what's… Read More

The Dark Knight Rises review

July 22, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Christopher NolanWritten by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan, from a story by Christopher Nolan andDavid S. Goyer. Batman was created by Bob Kane in DC Comics.And so it ends, eh? When Christopher Nolan was handed the reins to the pointy-eared vigilante franchise and Batman Begins came out in 2005, the character could only go… Read More

The Rum Diary review

October 28, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Bruce RobinsonWritten by Robinson, adapting the Hunter S. Thompson novelThis is telling: two posters from The Rum Diary, the brand new movie starring Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp, the hero of Hunter S. Thompson's Puerto Rico-set novel. There's this onewhich hides Depp but plays up hotel-room carnage. Playing to fans of The Hangover,… Read More