Tag Archives: Gareth Edwards

Jurassic World: Rebirth review — Decent franchise restarter improves on the three previous

July 3, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Gareth Edwards | Written by David Koepp, from Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton | 134 min | ▲▲1/2 | Amazon Prime In some ways, Jurassic World: Rebirth can't lose. It just needs to be better than the last three films in the franchise, and that shouldn't be too hard. The Jurassic World franchise takes… Read More

The Creator review — Sci-fi AI epic works thanks mostly to the visuals

October 2, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Gareth Edwards | Written by Edwards and Chris Weitz | 133 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave About 20 minutes into The Creator it was clear to me how this non-Intellectual Property, non-franchise, stand-alone big budget science fiction movie got green-lit: James Cameron. This is a movie that's following Cameron's sci-fi movie playbook —… Read More

New on Canadian Netflix: April 2017

April 24, 2017 flawintheiris

Here's a cross-section of a number of mildly-to- solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I've written them in the past.) For me, Netflix is a go-to usually to watch films I’ve already seen or to give the odd TV… Read More

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story review — A mixed bag, but the high points are stratospheric

January 2, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Gareth Edwards | Written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy | 133 min As this review is arriving late—for reasons—I'm giving myself the license to be a little spoilery. I figure the hardcore fans will have seen the film already, likely more than once, and to those who have yet to take it… Read More