Tag Archives: Hans Zimmer

F1 The Movie review — Vroom Vroom

June 25, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Joseph Kosinski | Written by Kosinski and Ehren Kruger | ▲▲▲▲ | 155 min If you've seen the trailer for this picture, you might've thought to yourself, "Hey, the grizzled veteran mentoring the young hotshot, a group of men embracing speed, intensity, and risking their lives for glory — this is just like… Read More

Occupied City and Blitz reviews — Steve McQueen’s Second World War stories

November 12, 2024 flawintheiris

Dune: Part Two review — The rise of Muad’dib

February 26, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Denis Villeneuve | Written by Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel by Frank Herbert | 168 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix After a painful delay for this much anticipated blockbuster sequel — just as the first one was delayed — it's here. In many respects it delivers on the promise of… 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

Documentary Reviews: Sidney, The Sound of 007, Nothing Compares

October 10, 2022 flawintheiris

Sidney | Directed by Reginald Hudlin | Written by Jesse James Miller | 111 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Apple TV+ Earlier this year on the podcast I co-host with Stephen Cooke, LENS ME YOUR EARS, we took a look back at some of Sidney Poitier's great films. To be honest, we only scratched the surface.… Read More

Inception — 10th Anniversary review

August 17, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan | 148 min | Netflix and In Cinemas/IMAX As part of a month-long retrospective look at 10 years of this blog, I’m rewatching a few films from a decade back. I began writing FITI around Labour Day 2010, and though I'd seen Inception by then I never did a… Read More

Dark Phoenix review — X-Men franchise finale fails to burn

June 10, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Simon Kinberg, based on comics by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Dave Cockrum | 113 min | Crave Plus "They went back to the well one time too often." That's what a lot of the wags were saying about the last movie, X-Men: Apocalypse, the unloved follow-up to the otherwise excellent X-Men:… Read More

Mission: Impossible – Fallout review — Spy actioner goes from strength to strength

July 30, 2018 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Christopher McQuarrie | 146 min The Mission: Impossible franchise has proven surprisingly hardy. This is the sixth entry, going back to Brian DePalma's 1996 movie, the first cinematic adaptation of the Bruce Gellar's TV series, turning 1960s spycraft into a pre-millennial Tom Cruise action picture. Until this one, each subsequent entry… Read More

Blade Runner 2049 review — Epic sci-fi sequel is beautiful, cold, and essential

October 6, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Denis Villeneuve | Written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, with characters from the Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep | 163 min In its DNA, in its circuitry, any sequel looks back at the original. A good sequel moves forward more than it looks back, while that rare beast,… Read More

Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy review

July 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Watching Interstellar for a third time, I felt very much like I had a sense of what Christopher Nolan was going for. But it took three views to really feel like I got it. I love that, when movies have enough depth and complexity that it takes more than one viewing to fully grasp what's… Read More