Tag Archives: Bradley Whitford

tick, tick… BOOM! review — Lin-Manuel Miranda’s heartfelt tribute to his hero and to Broadway

November 29, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Written by Steven Levenson, based on the musical by Jonathan Larson | 115 min | Netflix Jonathan Larson is best known as the creator of Rent, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning '90s rock musical. Tragically, he died suddenly in 1996 just as Rent was premiering off-Broadway. Before Rent he… Read More

Godzilla: King Of The Monsters review — It rains on us all

June 3, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Dougherty | Written by Dougherty, Zach Shields, and Max Borenstein | 131 min | Netflix It rains a lot in this new Godzilla movie. It's a sequel to the last (American) blockbuster starring the gigantic, radioactive lizard—not the excellent Toho Godzilla picture from a couple years ago—and connected to a cinematic universe… Read More

Destroyer review — Kidman goes gritty in flawed thriller

January 25, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Karyn Kusama | Written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi | 121 min | Prime Video Karyn Kusama hangs her movie on Nicole Kidman's thousand-yard stare. Kidman is Detective Erin Bell, with some particularly horrendous prosthetics and make-up around those eyes. If we're supposed to assume she's an addict, the film is coy… Read More

Megan Leavey review — Only dog lovers need attend

June 9, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Written by Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo, and Tim Lovestedt | 116 min Megan Leavey is based on the true story of a US Marine and her bomb sniffing German Shepherd, both of whom were deployed to Iraq. In the documentary Blackfish Cowperthwaite awoke the world to marine parks' cruelty to cetaceans, so it… Read More

Get Out review — Fear of a White Planet

March 2, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jordan Peele | 103 min | Amazon Prime A cunning amalgam of horror and satire, comedian Peele has delivered an especially satisfying debut feature film. It manages to poke at a lot of the cliches of white liberal America—that some may call unacknowledged truths, especially the barely repressed racism of the… Read More

Saving Mr Banks review

December 26, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by John Lee HancockWritten by Kelly Marcel and Sue SmithIn order to enjoy Saving Mr Banks, you'll need to check your skepticism at the cinema door. I'm not saying it's impossible, and I'm not saying it's recommended. It's your call.For me a little skepticism is baked in. It makes me recognize that there's something… Read More

The Cabin in the Woods review

May 6, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Drew Goddard | Written by Goddard and Joss Whedon | 95 min | Amazon Prime and On Demand From the outset, The Cabin in the Woods hints that it is not a typical horror film. The opening scenes introduce two mid-level bureaucratic types (played fantastically by Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford) having a… Read More