Tag Archives: Danny Huston

The Naked Gun (2025) review — Shooting blanks

August 2, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Akiva Schaffer | Written by Schaffer, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand, based on the TV series Police Squad, by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker | ▲1/2 Hollywood is excited by this late-arriving sequel/reboot because mainstream, broad comedy has been a non-starter on the big screen for years. Even the sequel to… Read More

The Dead Don’t Hurt review — Vicky Krieps shines in Viggo Mortensen’s western love story

July 15, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Viggo Mortensen | 129 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Digital and VOD A love story where in the first scene one of the lovers dies — Viggo Mortensen's second effort as a director (he also writes, produces, and wrote the gorgeous score) is a graceful arthouse western, head and shoulders above the… Read More

A Brief History of Spy Movies: Part Three

June 29, 2019 flawintheiris

THE LE CARRÉ ADAPTATIONS In the past two posts I review Harry Palmer movies and a dozen spy pictures from 1966 to 2006. This post is devoted to the film adaptations of the godfather of spy novels. Roger Ebert described John Le Carré’s novels as “chess problems in which one solution is elegant and all… Read More

Stan and Ollie review — Performances shine in sentimental biopic

February 4, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon S. Baird | Written by Jeff Pope | 98 min | Prime Video If you're a Gen Xer or older you should remember Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the comedian duo who peaked in the late '30s, but their short films—heavy on the slapstick, with Laurel the meek, dimwitted stooge, and Hardy… Read More

Wonder Woman review — Amazon Warrior For The Win

June 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Patty Jenkins | Written by Allan Heinberg, Jason Fuchs, and Zack Snyder | 142 min That sound you heard this past weekend was the massive, communal exhale by millions of filmgoers who made Wonder Woman the huge hit it deserves to be. The movie is the long-awaited female-led summer superhero picture that matches… Read More

Big Eyes review — Tim Burton reaffirms his love of kitsch

January 5, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Tim Burton, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski Twenty years ago Tim Burton made Ed Wood, which remains my favourite of his films—Beetlejuice is a close second. It's also the last time Burton drew from actual events until Big Eyes. Looking for other comparisons between the two movies, there's the era and setting:… Read More