Tag Archives: Chris Morgan

Shazam! Fury Of The Gods review — The Big Red Cheese fights gods and monsters

June 13, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by David F. Sandberg | Written by Henry Gayden and Chris Morgan | 130 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave Here's a tough movie to review. Like the first Shazam! movie this is entirely aimed at the pre-teen set, a four-colour superhero movie actually for kids. That's not a bad thing, right? I won't deny… Read More

Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw review — Lots of calories, no nutritional value

August 16, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by David Leitch | Written by Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce | 137 min | Netflix Makes a lot of sense that the stuntman-turned-filmmaker Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde) would be called to extend the Fast & Furious brand in this spin-off. It features two of the three bullet-headed stars of the globally popular… Read More

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

Furious 7 review — More is more, more or less

April 4, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by James Wan, written by Chris Morgan, from characters by Gary Scott Thompson | Netflix Hot Car: Lykan Hypersport, the $3.4 million supercar. If the successive entries in this increasingly popular franchise have shown us anything it's that more is more. More cars, more stunts, more characters, more arm butter, more slo-mo, more macho attitude,… Read More

The Fast and the Furious series review

June 12, 2013 flawintheiris

The sixth entry in this wildly successful action franchise came out recently, a franchise I've pretty much ignored. Why? Though I met Vin Diesel one time and he was friendly enough, I was never a huge fan of the guy onscreen. And I never much liked his pal, Paul Walker. The real appeal of these… Read More