Tag Archives: Edgar Wright

The Running Man (2025) review — Fast out of the blocks, but stumbles

November 18, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Michael Bacall, based on the Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) novel | 133 min | ▲▲1/2 This movie is both better than expected and yet not as good as was hoped. Compared to the previous work of the wildly talented British filmmaker Edgar Wright, including… Read More

FLAW IN THE IRIS visits London!

June 15, 2022 flawintheiris

In May I spent almost three weeks in London, one of my favourite cities in the world. I first visited when I was a kid, and then lived there as a teenager, finishing high school at an American international school. London turned me into a genuine film lover, the cinemas of the West End offering… Read More

Last Night in Soho review — Visions of hell on Wardour Street

October 29, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns | 116 min | Netflix Edgar Wright feels like a peer, a media nerd who loves him some movies. The movies he makes are more than informed by his passion and knowledge of all the movies he's watched, they're enraptured by them. He and… Read More

The Sparks Brothers review — The eternally hip

August 15, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | 140 min | On Demand I had the suspicion when I first heard about this project it was a mockumentary, that Sparks was a fake band dreamed up for chuckles. I mean, I know a bit about popular music, so how did I get to this ripe age without having… Read More

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World — 10th Anniversary review

August 13, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Michael Bacall, from the Bryan Lee O'Malley graphic novels | 112 mins | Netflix As part of a month-long retrospective look at 10 years of this blog, I'm rewatching a few films from a decade back. This indie superhero comic/videogame-inspired movie was released 10 years ago… Read More

Baby Driver review — Wheelman can’t drive 55

June 30, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Edgar Wright | 113 min It feels like Brits want Edgar Wright to be their own personal Tarantino, the pop-culture obsessed filmmaker who will absorb all those Hollywood influences and create perfect, post-modern genre films for the 21st Century. He succeeded the first time out of the gate with Shaun Of The… Read More

Ant-Man review — Incredible shrinking man brings so-so superheroics

July 19, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed, Written by Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Paul Rudd, and Adam McKay, from the Marvel Comics character by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby I'm a fan of what Marvel does. A series of interconnected movies about superheroes, stories told with intelligence and humour, they're wildly and deservedly popular and, for… Read More

The World’s End review

September 12, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Simon Pegg | 109 min | On Demand You nerds know this: The World's End is the third and final film in Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, all made with buddies Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The thematic thread is pretty thin, but basically these three British guys… Read More

The Adventures of Tintin review

December 30, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven SpielbergWritten by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, based on the comics by Hergé.I think my experience with this film speaks directly to my undeniable and unavoidably lofty expectations.I'm a longtime reader of the Tintin comics, since I was a child. This summer I reread almost the entire set—my copy of… Read More