Tag Archives: Jeff Goldblum

Wicked For Good review — The big songs carry the day

November 19, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon M Chu | Written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, based on the musical by Stephen Schwartz and the novel by Gregory Maguire | ▲▲▲1/2 Here it is, the sequel to Wicked: Part One, which came out to substantial box office last November, an adaptation of the award-winning and beloved broadway show.… Read More

Wicked: Part 1 review — Too sweet and too long, but thoughtful

November 23, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon M Chu | Written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, based on the musical by Stephen Schwartz and the novel by Gregory Maguire | 160 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime I don't think it's outrageous to say that 2021 was a peak year for the movie musical. The highest point for… Read More

#AJFF Review: Fiddler’s Journey To The Big Screen

November 18, 2022 flawintheiris

The Atlantic Jewish Film Festival runs from now until Sunday, November 20th, with in-person screenings as well as a virtual selection. Visit the website for tickets and information on the films. Fiddler's Journey To The Big Screen | Directed by Daniel Raim | Written by Raim and Michael Sragow | 88 min A few months… Read More

Reviews: Hotel Artemis, Wildlife, Searching

March 1, 2019 flawintheiris

Hotel Artemis Writer-Producer Drew Pearce delivers a fairly original b-movie/sci-fi/crime drama for his debut as a feature filmmaker. It's 2028, and Los Angeles is going up in flames due to a city-wide riot, but the Artemis is busy. It's a clinic for criminals, where the patients are named after their room allocations. I said original, but… Read More

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom review — A somewhat improved monster

June 24, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by JA Bayona | Written by Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow, based on characters by Michael Crichton | 128 min Regular readers of this blog might recall from back in 2015 the hate-on I had for the first reboot/sequel in this current run of the popular dinosaur franchise. It was awful, and a mystery to me… Read More

Isle Of Dogs review — Barking mad, beautiful, and yes, problematic

April 15, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson from a story by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Kunichi Nomura | 101 min The new Wes Anderson is as brilliant and idiosyncratic as anything I've seen in his peculiar cinematic output. It also has moments where I was left befuddled, bemused, and maybe, once or… Read More

Death Wish (1974) and (2018) reviews — 1970s vigilante thriller ages poorly in 2018 remake

March 9, 2018 flawintheiris

1974: Directed by Michael Winner | Written by Wendell Mayes | 93 minutes 2018: Directed by Eli Roth | Written by Joe Carnahan from the Brian Garfield novel and the 1974 film screenplay by Wendell Mayes | 107 min I recently rewatched the first Death Wish, and found the Michael Winner film to be not… Read More

Thor: Ragnarok review — The God of Thunder lightens up

November 3, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Taika Waititi | Written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost | 130 min It's the third Thor movie. Can you believe it? If I could go back in time and tell 10-year-old Carsten we'd have three Thor movies by 2017, not to mention all the Iron Man, Avengers, and X-Men movies,… 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

Jurassic World review — Better off extinct

June 18, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Colin Trevorrow, Written by Trevorrow, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Derek Connolly, based on the Michael Crichton book Jurassic Park Wherein a superhero dinosaur, genetically engineered to be bigger, smarter, and tougher than all who came before, finds freedom from enslavement, then crushes and eats all who oppressed her. It's a tale of redemption,… Read More