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The Incredibles (2004), Incredibles 2 reviews — Pixar superfamily recaptures glory

June 18, 2018 flawintheiris

Both Written and Directed by Brad Bird | 115 min (2004)/118 min (2018) Revisiting the original Incredibles for the first time since having seen it in the cinema in 14 years ago, I was impressed that the only thing that's aged in the film is some of the background animation—the street scenes are remarkably generic compared… Read More

Mission: Impossible series review

July 28, 2015 flawintheiris

My mother loved the 1960s TV series, created by Bruce Gellar. I remember that much about it, and that it starred, at one time or another, Leonard Nimoy, Sam Elliot, Greg Morris, Barbara Bain and Martin Landau—who I knew better as a kid from Space: 1999—and Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, the guy calling the… Read More

Tomorrowland review — They promised us jetpacks

May 26, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Brad Bird, written by Bird and Damon Lindelof from a story by Bird, Lindelof, and Jeff Jensen. When I was a kid, I remember picture books that prophesized the future: everything from flying cars to nuclear fusion, monorails to space colonies—great wheels in the sky. We'd all have robot helpers, and with so… Read More

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol review

December 19, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Brad Bird Written by Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec, based on the TV series Mission: Impossible created by Bruce Geller | Netflix People talk about how the Bourne movies updated the espionage action thriller for the new century, in the feel and the look of the thing. Just consider how the director of… Read More