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Pig review — Nicolas Cage a revelation in swine hunt thriller

December 6, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Sarnoski | Written by Sarnoski and Vanessa Block | 92 min | Amazon Prime Nicolas Cage's reputation precedes him. His career choices veer from the brilliantly idiosyncratic — consider Mandy from a few years back — to the depressingly forgettable. Pig is very much in the former category, a modest feature from… Read More

Old review — Shyamalan goes back to The Village

July 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | Written by Shyamalan, based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters | 108 min | Netflix If you've seen the trailer, you know the premise: A group of people vacationing at an exclusive resort on a tropical island head to a remote beach for the… Read More

Jumanji: The Next Level review — An OK sequel to a better movie

January 19, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Jake Kasdan | Written by Kasdan, Jeff Pinker, and Scott Rosenberg, based on a book by Chris Van Allsburg | 123 min | Netflix Though I'm surprised to find I never wrote it up on this blog, I did see 2017's Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle—I think on an airplane. It's a good… Read More

Hereditary review — As creepy as f**k, as advertised

June 10, 2018 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ari Aster | 127 min | On Demand A family living in a lovely, wood-panelled home in Utah is grieving the death of the grandmother. At the funeral Annie (Toni Collette), talks about her mother’s secretive nature. She was estranged from her mother for years, we learn. Back at home, Annie… Read More

My Friend Dahmer review — A chilling tale of growing evil

November 20, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Marc Meyers | Written by Meyers, based on the graphic novel by Derf Backderf | 117 min "New house rule: We eat our mistakes," says Joyce (Anne Heche), Jeff Dahmer's mother. With that frightening pronouncement, we fall into this lovely looking, though deeply strange, pit detailing the awkward teen years of the infamous… Read More