Tag Archives: Halloween Movies

Barbarian review — Basement horror less than impressive

October 15, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Zach Cregger | 102 min | ▲▲△△△ | On Disney + Barbarian suffers from a couple of issues that scupper otherwise clever horror movies way too often. The first and most egregious is the Horror Character Decision-Making, which I encountered most recently in another high-concept picture, Fall. This is where capable,… Read More

Men review — Twisted folk horror is a lot to take

August 24, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Alex Garland | 100 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime Novelist-turned-screenwriter-turned-director Alex Garland has become a spectacularly singular voice in fantasy and science fiction in recent years. Consider his scripts for 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, and his work as a writer-director on Ex Machina, Annihilation,… Read More

Bodies Bodies Bodies review — Wildly fun horror satire a must see

August 19, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Halina Reijn | Written by Sarah DeLappe and Kristen Roupenian | 94 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime We open on the sounds of kissing — Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and Bee (Maria Bakalova) making out. Sophie declares her love for Bee. Bee keeps schtum. Coming out of the film, I kept thinking about… Read More

Fall review — The high anxiety of careless climbers

August 13, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Mann | Written by Mann and Jonathan Frank | 107 min | ▲▲▲△△ You gotta give credit to these filmmakers for the wonderfully simple conceit — stick your two characters on the top of a 2000 ft tower in the Mojave where the rail ladder has given way, and let them spend… Read More

Prey review — A unique twist on a legacy franchise

August 6, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg | Story by Trachtenberg and Patrick Aison | 99 min | ▲▲▲▲△| Disney + The first things that needs talking about with this film is the question of representation. We're in an age where authenticity is everything, and that means the white settler majority ceding space in the arts community to… Read More

Predator series review

August 5, 2022 flawintheiris

As a science-fiction series birthed out of slam-bang, macho Hollywood of the 1980s, this one falls behind The Terminator and Alien by some distance. Maybe that's because those pictures have at least two stone cold classics each, while this one, despite a number of attempts to capture the magic of the first, still rides on… Read More

Nope review — Jordan Peele delivers another thoughtful, impressive movie

July 25, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jordan Peele | 130 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ This is the blockbuster we've been waiting for in the summer of 2022. It's an impressively original story unrelated to a franchise or a sequel or prequel, the new horror from Jordan Peele — the filmmaker behind Get Out and Us — who is… Read More

Slash/Back review — Arctic aliens get stomped by badass girls

June 24, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Nyla Innuksuk | Written by Innuksuk and Ryan Cavan | 87 min | ▲▲▲△△ | VOD Welcome to Pangnirtung, Nunavut — a small town just beneath the Arctic Circle. It's the summer solstice, a day that sees no night and all the adults are partying. That leaves teenagers Maika (Tasiana Shirley) and her… Read More

Crimes of the Future review — Long Live the New Sex

June 14, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David Cronenberg | 107 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | Crave Can we say now, while he's still with us and making movies at this standard, that David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker our national cinema has ever produced? I mean, the mountain of evidence is towering. If you go back more than… Read More

Morbius review — Predictably batty, but not the worst

June 13, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Daniel Espinosa | Written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless | 104 min | ▲▲▲△△ | VOD It still surprises me this movie exists. Due to the weird rules dictating Marvel Comics character licensing, Sony has the rights to a host of villains from the pantheon of Spider-Man comics around which they've been developing… Read More