Tag Archives: Adam Wingard

Godzilla vs Kong review — It’s a mighty creature feature

March 31, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Adam Wingard | Written by Eric Pearson, Max Borenstein, Terry Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields | 113 min | Crave Plus A cinematic monster genetically spliced from two different franchises, featuring cinematic DNA from the good-time Kong Skull Island and the last two American Godzilla movies, the 2014 Gareth Edwards effort (not… Read More

She Dies Tomorrow review — Surreal horror actually a lot of laughs

January 14, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Amy Seimetz | 86 min | On Demand "Amy thinks she's dying tomorrow...and it's contagious." That's the tagline on the IMDB page for this picture, and it nicely sums up the central conceit. Semetz's film is an absurdist and surreal horror, droll in its soundtrack cues and creative visuals. It's like… Read More

New on Canadian Netflix: August/September 2017

September 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to-solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) Death Note (2017) I was a big fan of Adam Wingard's The Guest (found elsewhere on this month's list), bit… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2014: Day Eight—Cronenberg, The Guest, and that’s a wrap!

September 19, 2014 flawintheiris

Is it possible it's all over so soon? Must be since I was sitting in a packed house for David Cronenberg's Maps To The Stars on Thursday night, and a week ago I was at the Cohn for the disappointing opener, Elephant Song. As a closer, the Cronenberg film was typically discomfiting from the Canadian provocateur—even… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2013: Day 3: V/H/S 2, Jeune & Jolie and Blackfish

September 15, 2013 flawintheiris

As I mentioned about last night's There Are Monsters, I'm no fan of the found-footage genre. And yet I thought Jay Dahl managed to take it to a new, almost abstract place in his film. And to the makers of V/H/S 2, I want to say I was impressed with how you creatively shoe-horned the conceit into your anthology… Read More