Tag Archives: Clancy Brown

From The Vault: The Bride (1985)

March 23, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Franc Roddam | Written by Lloyd Fonvielle, adapting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 118 min | ▲▲▲ | Shout Factory/Scream Factory Blu-Ray, VOD Sometime in the months ahead a picture called The Bride will arrive, another adaptation of Shelley's Frankenstein, or maybe a direct remake of James Whale's classic Bride of Frankenstein. With Maggie Gyllenhaal… Read More

John Wick: Chapter 4 review — The Skyfall of the John Wick franchise

March 27, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Chad Stahelski | Written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch, based on characters by Derek Kolstad | 169 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime and Crave When John Wick first found his bloody path to the big screen about a decade ago, it was a mid-budget indie action picture with a 50-year-old Keanu… Read More

20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (From the 20th Century)

May 24, 2021 flawintheiris

I started with Netflix, notorious for having a shallow catalogue of older movies, then went on to Disney's new service, Star. Now I'm having a look at Prime, which actually boasts a bigger variety of films 21 years or older. Here's some of the best available now: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) This is Werner… Read More

Promising Young Woman review — Righteous retribution, served hot

January 17, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Emerald Fennell | 113 min | Netflix Cassie (Carey Mulligan) works at a coffee shop and lives with her parents, Susan and Stanley (Jennifer Coolidge and Clancy Brown). She's just turning 30, though she's not really paying attention to those kinds of milestones. She used to be a medical student. Not… Read More

Sean Connery: 10 Of His Best Non-Bond Roles

November 4, 2020 flawintheiris

Sean Connery died on Saturday, October 31, at age 90. The Scottish actor was the first cinematic James Bond, and for many will always be the greatest — defining the mix of suave, stylish, sexy, and ruthless for a generation of fans. While so much of what he did with that character is easy to… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: December 2018

December 19, 2018 flawintheiris

Roma One could make an argument last year's Mudbound was the feature that signalled Netlfix's prestige drama interest, readying their horses for the annual Oscar race. Roma is really the tipping point, a film with the critical momentum to suggest it could actually take the Best Picture statuette. I'd be surprised, simply because it's much… Read More

VOD Reviews — Chappaquiddick, Hampstead, Borg vs McEnroe

July 17, 2018 flawintheiris

Chappaquiddick Directed by John Curran | Written by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan | 106 min This must be the final piece of the Kennedy legend to find its way to the big screen. If they've finally arrived at the Ted Kennedy story, the scandal of his having driven drunk leading to the death of… Read More

Thor: Ragnarok review — The God of Thunder lightens up

November 3, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Taika Waititi | Written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost | 130 min It's the third Thor movie. Can you believe it? If I could go back in time and tell 10-year-old Carsten we'd have three Thor movies by 2017, not to mention all the Iron Man, Avengers, and X-Men movies,… Read More

Hail, Caesar! review — Drop By The Coens’ Hollywood party

February 8, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Joel & Ethan Coen | 106 min | ▲▲▲▲△ Once again the Coen Brothers celebrate their love of Hollywood's golden age with a knowing comedy in the spirit of The Hudsucker Proxy and Barton Fink, though lighter and sillier than both. Set largely at Fink's Capitol Pictures studio in the early 1950s—complete… Read More

Homefront review

November 29, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Gary FlederWritten by Sylvester Stallone, adapting a novel by Chuck LoganYeah, you read that right: Sly Stallone is responsible for this script. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Homefront was at one time imagined as a closing chapter of his Rambo saga, presumably telling the tale of John Rambo's return to the US to… Read More