Tag Archives: Glen Powell

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 | In Cinemas 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… Read More

Twisters/Twister (1996) reviews — One spins, the other sucks

July 19, 2024 flawintheiris

Twisters | Directed by Lee Isaac Chung | Written by Mark L. Smith and Joseph Kosinski | 117 min | ▲△△△△ | Amazon Prime I'm not sure why this new picture is being marketed as a sequel (check out my rewatch review of the original below). Twisters is a stone cold reboot with no characters… Read More

Hit Man review — Twisty, terrific script kills

July 8, 2024 flawintheiris

A capsule version of this review appeared on FITI in September 2023 during coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Richard Linklater | Written by Linklater and Glen Powell, from an article by Skip Hollandsworth | 115 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix, Hoopla This is probably the best script Linklater’s worked with since… Read More

Anyone But You review — Hotness isn’t enough to make us care

December 25, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Will Gluck | Written by Gluck and Ilana Wolpert | 103 min |▲▲△△△ | Crave Ah, that rarest of genres to get a release in cinemas these days, next to the Western: a romantic comedy. It isn't hard to see what made the producers of this picture slaver: "Let's pair up the two… Read More

Top Gun: Maverick review — A vertiginous victory, just

May 28, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Joseph Kosinski | Written by Peter Craig, Justin Marks, Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie | 131 min | ▲▲▲△△ If you remove the Mission: Impossible series from the equation, Tom Cruise has never made a sequel to any of his hit movies. Given his 40+ years in the Hollywood spotlight… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: October 2018

October 2, 2018 flawintheiris

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society A fine, romantic period drama, stewed in the bones of 84 Charing Cross Road and any number of WWII-era tales of British privation. This most clumsily-titled film earned a cinematic release in the UK, but not here. It's too bad because it's a good-looking picture, with lovely seaside… Read More

Everybody Wants Some!! review — ’80s bros have a good time

May 3, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Richard Linklater | 117 min | ▲▲▲▲△ Everybody Wants Some!!, named for an immortal Van Halen song, is, as the director put it, "a spiritual sequel" to his 1993 cult success Dazed And Confused. That film was about a last day of high school in a Texas town in the late 1970s. Imagine the September following for… Read More