Tag Archives: James Vanderbilt

Nuremberg review — Post-war potboiler goes off the boil

November 5, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by James Vanderbilt | Written by Vanderbilt, based on the book The Nazi And The Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai | ▲▲ Vanderbilt's name wasn't one I was immediately familiar with before this feature, but his credits as a producer or writer are diverse — David Fincher's Zodiac, a couple of the less memorable Spider-Man… Read More

Scream (2022) review — The good, the bad, and the bloody

January 21, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett | Written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick | 114 min |▲▲▲△△ | VOD There's something to be admired in a franchise that starts as a tight trilogy over four years, goes on hiatus for a decade, returns for a better-than-it-needed-to-be fourth entry, and then takes another decade… Read More

Independence Day: Resurgence review — Xenomorph Boogaloo

June 28, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Roland Emmerich | Written by Emmerich, Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods, Dean Devlin, James Vanderbilt | 120 min | ▲▲△△△ Hearing this sequel was coming down the pike, I availed myself of the original Independence Day from 1996. I have friends who saw it at the right age, which gives them a rosy nostalgia about the movie. My… Read More

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review

May 3, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Marc Webb Written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner and James Vanderbilt, adapting the Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko My friend Dave, who loves superhero movies, and I disagreed on this one, and I had to admit that maybe my enjoyment of it was at least partly the… Read More

The Amazing Spider-Man review

July 17, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Marc Webb Written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves from a story by Vanderbilt and comics by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. This film really should credit John Romita, too, because as my friend Dave Howlett remarked, Emma Stone is the spitting image of that legendary Marvel artist's Gwen Stacey, right… Read More