Tag Archives: Chris Pine

Hell Or High Water review — Dusty Days in the Lone Star State

September 5, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by David MacKenzie | Written by Taylor Sheridan | 102 min | ▲▲▲▲△ In Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), a 25-year-old Jeff Bridges joined Clint Eastwood as a pair of bank robbers in rural Montana. Forty-two years later Bridges is on the other side of the law, but Hell Or High Water feels a little like a spiritual… Read More

Star Trek Beyond review — Trek Out of Darkness

July 23, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Justin Lin | Written by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung, based on the Gene Roddenberry TV series | 120 min | ▲▲▲△△ We start three years into the Starship Enterprise's five year mission. That's a clever reference to where the original show left off, three seasons in. This is also the third movie in… Read More

The Finest Hours review — Terminally hokey nautical tale

January 29, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Craig Gillespie | Written by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, based on a book by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias | 117 min | ▲△△△△ We've seen a lot of movies set in the early 1950s lately—the earnest, lush romance Brooklyn, the austere indie Carol. Now we have a movie that doesn't… Read More

10 Best Under-the-Radar Films of 2015

December 31, 2015 flawintheiris

As I mentioned the other day in my look back at 2015 in the cinema, my Top 10 of 2015 will be coming soon, once I've caught up on a few more pictures. In the meantime, here's another list to consider. As per usual, plenty of the year's best cinema found their way to us on… Read More

Reviews: Coherence, Duke Of Burgundy, Kill The Messenger, Slow West, Z For Zachariah

October 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Recent releases available on DVD and VOD that didn't screen in local cinemas: Coherence Directed by James Ward Byrkit | Written by Byrkit and Alex Manugian | 89 min Eight dissatisfied urbanites gather for a party on a night when a comet burns through the sky. All their mobile phones go dead, and then the… Read More

The Jack Ryan Franchise: An Accidental Secret Agent

December 1, 2014 flawintheiris

Jack Ryan has lived many lives. A character who originated in a series of popular Tom Clancy novels, he's kept coming back to the movies in a series from Paramount Studios — played by four actors in five pictures released over 24 years, with Ryan repositioned through shifting political eras with varying degrees of success.… Read More

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit review

February 6, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Kenneth BranaghWritten by Adam Cozad and David Koepp, based on characters created by Tom ClancyIt's a very rotten spy thriller that I'll pan. I just love the genre. I enjoy the twisty plots, the suspense and the international locations. But I can't say too much about Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit impressed me.This is… Read More

Star Trek Into Darkness review

May 21, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by JJ Abrams, Written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof, based on the Gene Roddenberry TV series | Prime Video It's been reported that JJ Abrams didn't grow up having been a big fan of Star Trek. I've had trouble finding the direct quote online, but the impression I got from having… Read More

Reviews: Your Sister’s Sister, People Like Us, The Woman in the Fifth, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Safety Not Guaranteed

December 19, 2012 flawintheiris

I've spent some time recently catching up with movies I missed in cinemas, either because they opened and closed too quickly or didn't open at all in my town. Here are a few notables now out on DVD. Your Sister's Sister Written and directed by Lynn Shelton This film is some kind of perfect, tiny… Read More