Tag Archives: Cliff Martinez

Kimi review — Soderbergh delivers razor-sharp tech thriller

February 15, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Written by David Koepp | 89 min | Crave | ▲▲▲▲△ It's hard to believe Steven Soderbergh retired from making feature films a few years ago given the tear he's been on since he returned to the fray. In just the past 16 months he's released Let Them All Talk,… Read More

Game Night review — A surprisingly hilarious mainstream comedy

June 17, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein | Written by Mark Perez | 100 mins | on Netflix There's a scene in this picture where a suburban couple, Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams), work to remove a bullet from Max's arm. They're entirely incompetent, and worse, they can barely keep from tossing… Read More

The Neon Demon review — Weird Couture

June 25, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn | Written by Refn, Mary Laws, and Polly Stenham | 117 min | ▲▲▲▲△ This one upset some folks at Cannes, and it's easy to see why. Promoted as a horror, it's no more a horror than Under The Skin was. There are moments of gore late in the running, and… Read More

Only God Forgives review

July 28, 2013 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Nicolas Winding RefnOnly God Forgives is a bloody and relentless operatic noir set largely in nighttime Bangkok, bathed in neon scarlet, emerald, topaz, and gold. Imagine a film conceived by Gaspar Noe—he's thanked in the credits—written by David Lynch circa Lost Highway, and directed by Stanley Kubrick somewhere between The Shining… Read More

Contagion review

October 2, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Written by Scott Z. Burns | 106 min | Netflix I've read that Soderbergh's intent with this virus thriller was to make a film akin to producer/director Irwin Allen's disaster movies of the 1970s, which included The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and The Swarm. The template of those pictures… Read More