Tag Archives: Antoine Fuqua

Michael review — Who’s bad? This is.

May 12, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine Fuqua | Written by John Logan | ▲1/2 The best I can say about this box office-busting Michael Jackson biopic is it's professionally made — how could it not be from the Hollywood journeyman director who gave us The Equalizer franchise and the writer of Gladiator and Skyfall? It's also surprising, given their… Read More

The Guilty (2021) review — A passable, if inessential, remake

September 28, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine Fuqua | Written by Nic Pizzolatto, based on the original screenplay by Gustav Möller and Emil Nygaard Albertsen | 90 min | Netflix I've read that Jake Gyllenhaal was a big fan of the Danish original, and so given the chance to remake it brought Training Day filmmaker Antoine Fuqua on board.… Read More

The Equalizer 2 review— Thriller meanders through muddy plot

August 5, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine Fuqua | Written by Richard Wenk | 120 min | Netflix Three key things to take away from the sequel to the 2014 actioner, The Equalizer. One: It's the least actually cinematic thriller in recent memory. This franchise is based on a TV series—if you're under 35 likely you won't recall the Edward… Read More

The Magnificent Seven (2016) review — Old and young guns shoot straight enough in western remake

October 2, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine Fuqua | Written by Richard Wenk and Nic Pizzolato, based on the screenplays for The Magnificent Seven (1960) by William Roberts and The Seven Samurai (1954) by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni | 133 min A remake of a remake of a remake, this newest tale of hired guns helping out a village… Read More

Southpaw review — Beaten down by banality, K.O.ed by cliche

July 27, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Kurt Sutter A couple weeks ago, preparing for a forthcoming podcast on dark comedies, I rewatched the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink. New York playwright Barton Fink has been hired by a Hollywood studio circa the late 1930s to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Blocked and looking for inspiration,… Read More

The Equalizer vs. A Walk Among The Tombstones: Two Sides of the Same Blood-Spattered Coin?

October 2, 2014 flawintheiris

The Equalizer—directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Richard Wenk, from the TV series created by Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim A Walk Among The Tombstones—written and directed by Scott Frank, adapting the novel by Lawrence Block A trailer for a something called John Wick, opening later this month, ran before A Walk Among The Tombstones. This is… Read More

Olympus Has Fallen review

March 26, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine FuquaWritten by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin BenediktIt's been awhile since I've seen such an egregiously lunkheaded movie as Olympus Has Fallen. Happy to let its talented cast deliver recycled, leaden dialogue and go through the motions of a recycled, leaden plot, its real failing goes beyond that, because a movie can be… Read More