Tag Archives: Hugh Jackman

Deadpool and Wolverine review — Laughing in the arterial spray

July 29, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Shawn Levy | Written by Levy, Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells, based on characters by Rob Liefeld, and Fabian Nicieza | 127 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave The single Marvel Cinematic Universe feature to show in cinemas this year arrives with a healthy amount of hype and a full-court,… Read More

The Son review — Divorce, depression, and despair

January 23, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Florian Zeller | Written by Christopher Hampton, based on a play by Zeller | 123 min | ▲▲△△△ Despite the similarity in the titles, there's no narrative connection between this picture and Zeller's last film, the excellent The Father, though I gather it originally had a connection on the stage, along with a… Read More

Free Guy review — Fluffy good times with Ryan Reynolds

August 23, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Shawn Levy | Written by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn | 115 min | In Cinemas Free Guy is a mild and pleasant surprise. Like so many modern blockbusters, it's imbued with the DNA of a bunch of other, better movies, but it still manages to distinguish itself by being both a big-budget… Read More

Reminiscence review — Romantic sci-fi an unlikely summer charmer

August 19, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Lisa Joy | 116 min | VOD This shouldn't work. It's a hyper-stylized fantasy noir, deeply indebted to older — and let's be straight here — better films, but there's something about Reminiscence's commitment to its concept that raises it above being just another dystopic also-ran. It's easy to see where… Read More

Bad Education review — Jaw-dropping tale of suburban fraud

May 13, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Cory Finley | Written by Mike Makowsky, based on the article "The Bad Superintenent" in New York magazine by Robert Kolker | 108 min | HBO/Crave Go into this film cold. You can read up about Frank Tassone and the scandal that rocked an upper middle-class district of Long Island, New York, if… Read More

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 5 — Stinkers

August 5, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I've been doing here on FITI since 2010. I still have a… Read More

X-Men Original Trilogy review

June 5, 2019 flawintheiris

This review was assembled just before the release of Dark Phoenix. I recall reading the studio was planning three films to tell the story of Jean Grey's transformation into the cosmic power of Phoenix, an operatic tale of good and evil—previously attempted in the third X-Men film, X-Men: The Last Stand—but I guess those plans were… Read More

The Front Runner review — Charts political scandal when dignity mattered

November 29, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason Reitman | Written by Reitman, Jay Carson, and Matt Bai, based on the book All The Truth Is Out by Bai| 113 min A prestige drama getting no buzz at all this 2018 fall film season is The Front Runner, which is about the 1988 run for president by Democrat Gary Hart. His dreams… Read More

Logan review — Surprisingly moving conclusion to a superhero story

March 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by James Mangold | Written by Mangold, Scott Frank, and Michael Green | 137 min Hugh Jackman's essayed the Canadian mutant superhero Wolverine in nine pictures since the X-Men in 2000. Logan is where he sheathes his claws. He saved the nearly best for last—X2: X-Men United remains my favourite movie of the franchise and its… Read More

Mission: Impossible series review

July 28, 2015 flawintheiris

My mother loved the 1960s TV series, created by Bruce Gellar. I remember that much about it, and that it starred, at one time or another, Leonard Nimoy, Sam Elliot, Greg Morris, Barbara Bain and Martin Landau—who I knew better as a kid from Space: 1999—and Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, the guy calling the… Read More