Tag Archives: Jai Courtney

Dangerous Animals review — Grisly and gratuitous

June 5, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Sean Byrne | Written by Nick Lepard | 98 min | ▲1/2 | VOD For us cinephiles, it's impossible to miss the fact that this summer it's been 50 years since Steven Spielberg's Jaws changed Hollywood and became the favourite movie of a lot of people, deservedly so. The producers of this new… Read More

The Suicide Squad review — A tiresome, noisy waste of time

August 9, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by James Gunn | 132 min | Netflix Though you might've scrubbed it from your memory, there was a previous Suicide Squad movie — the grim, messy, Toronto-shot effort from director David Ayer based on a DC comic about incarcerated super-villains sent on dangerous missions of national importance with the promise that… Read More

Suicide Squad review — A Four-Colour Mess

August 4, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by David Ayer | 123 min | ▲▲△△△ On paper, DC Comics and Warner Brothers are doing the right thing, employing directors with passion and style like Zack Snyder (Watchmen) and David Ayer (Fury) to helm their big-budget superhero movies. So how come they're going wrong? While Snyder delivers the visual sucker punch, he… Read More

Terminator Genisys review — Fan fiction goes back in time

July 4, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Alan Taylor, written by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier, with characters by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd I'm a fan of time travel pictures, post-apocalyptic visions, and stories of how our tech will destroy us, so James Cameron's The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day scratch multiple itches with me. Then things… Read More

Insurgent review — An unremarkable return to the faction-filled future

March 30, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Schwentke, written by Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman, and Mark Bomback, from the novel by Veronica Roth. Insurgent is a dull, big-budget misfire. What was silly but ebullient in the first film, Divergent, feels heavy-handed and irritating in its sequel. Characters who formerly seemed appealing now come across as insipid. And a storyline that… Read More

Unbroken review — Angelina Jolie’s passion project is missing something

January 6, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Angelina Jolie, written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson, from the book by Laura Hillenbrand I understand Angelina Jolie felt a serious emotional connection to this material. It's the true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete and World War II bombardier who survived untold horrors when his plane was… Read More

Divergent review

March 27, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Neil Burger Written by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor, from the novel by Veronica Roth It's been a while since I've had such aggressively ambivalent feelings about a movie. While I felt the premise and many of the plot details were ridiculous and poorly thought-out, I really enjoyed the feature's execution: The direction,… Read More