Tag Archives: Charlize Theron

The Fate Of The Furious review — Pistons pop and fizzle

April 16, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by F. Gary Gray | Written by Chris Morgan, based on characters by Gary Scott Thompson | 136 min We've been promised a final trilogy of movies to take us across this franchise's finish line—and that we even got this far is kind of amazing. This whole shooting match started as a low-budget exploitation picture,… Read More

Kubo and the Two Strings review — Sad Son of the Samurai

August 28, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Travis Knight | Written by Marc Haimes, Chris Butler and Shannon Tindle | 101 min | Amazon Prime The three or four trailers before this gorgeous animated feature (from the Portland-based Laika studio that produced Coraline) were your typical, caffeinated, hyper-edited kiddie chum animation. In comparison to those, Kubo and the Two Strings is a breath of… Read More

LENS ME YOUR EARS — Ep. 06: Mad Max and Post-Apocalyptic movies

May 23, 2015 flawintheiris

After a brief delay, Stephen Cooke and I are back on the podcast trail. For our sixth time at the mic we give some attention to Mad Max: Fury Road, which we both loved way out of proportion, and take a gander at the Mad Max franchise, along with a couple of suggestions for other post-apocalypse cinema, including… Read More

Mad Max: Fury Road review — A masterpiece in speed and metal

May 14, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by George Miller, Written by Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nick Lathouris | Netflix Badass. As the end credits rolled, that's the word that kept bouncing around my rattling and enervated cranium. Mad Max: Fury Road is totally badass. When was the last time I was totally floored like this? The last time I saw… Read More

Mad Max: Fury Road gets a trailer

July 27, 2014 flawintheiris

This weekend was the San Diego Comic-Con, the biggest event in geek culture. Typically, it's when Hollywood studios preview their upcoming slate of fantasy and genre pictures. I gather the panel for and clips from Avengers: Age of Ultron (coming in April 2015) were pretty impressive. But what I'm probably most excited about is the first Mad… Read More

Blockbuster Blues 2014: The Good and The Grim Prospects for This Season at The Movies

May 14, 2014 flawintheiris

This summer's blockbuster selection looks pretty dire, I gotta say. In April we had Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Transcendence. This month we've got The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past. These are big-budget science fiction and fantasy films, highly anticipated, which make all in the Nerd Nation very happy—and me too. But the first three are… Read More

Mad Max: Fury Road gets a release date, and other details

December 6, 2013 flawintheiris

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the Mad Max: Fury Road shoot is wrapping up, and a release date of May 15, 2015, is slated for the film to finally be released. At that point, the picture will have been in production, in some stage, for almost 15 years. It's kind of amazing we're getting… Read More

Tom Hardy as Mad Max

February 5, 2013 flawintheiris

Max's InterceptorSome of you may have seen this image when it made the rounds in December, but I'm just catching up. This is the first photo of Tom Hardy in the role that made Mel Gibson a star.George Miller's reboot of his post-apocalyptic Mad Max saga, called Mad Max: Fury Road, more than a decade… Read More

Prometheus review

June 9, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley ScottWritten by Jon Spaihts and Damon LindelofI didn't have much faith that this would work. Prequels long after the fact—and 33 years is pretty damn long—rarely do. Filmmakers change. The hunger that defined Scott's early work, tales of his perfectionism on set and the stylistic rigour so evident in his films, some… Read More

Young Adult review

December 21, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason ReitmanWritten by Diablo CodyIn a high school reunion movie (it's a genre, you know) Mavis Gary would be the antagonist, the lady who was the mean girl as a teen and is still a bitch 20 years later—even though she's by many societal standards a success. The closest we've seen to her… Read More