Tag Archives: John Williams

#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

A Decade of FITI reviews: Lincoln (2012)

January 31, 2022 flawintheiris

Hello faithful reader! Carsten here. Having written thousands of reviews over the (actually more than) 10 years of this blog, I figured it might be fun to go into the vault and bring dusty, perhaps forgotten reviews back into the light. Expect these to show up around once a week for the next little while.… Read More

Solo: A Star Wars Story review — Han’s down, a so-so prequel

May 28, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ron Howard | Written by Jonathan Kasdan and Lawrence Kasdan | 135 min The relaunch of the Star Wars cinematic universe has come with more than its fair share of behind-the-scenes drama. This film is no exception, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller kicked off the project and veteran helmer Ron Howard brought on… Read More

Ready Player One review — Greatest Hits of the ’80s

March 29, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Spielberg | Written by Ernest Cline and Zak Penn, based on Cline's novel | 140 min I never finished the book and thought the trailers looked awful. That poster with the guy and the super-long-leg was terrible. Ready Player One arrives with not a lot of good buzz and, accordingly, no one… 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

Alien and Prometheus: Observations, questions and (a few) answers

June 11, 2012 flawintheiris

In a recent issue of Empire Magazine, Simon Braund started like this in a piece about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: "It's easy to scoff at the weight of cultural significance so often foisted on sci-fi and horror films—chin-stroking cineastes, seemingly oblivious to the films' primary objective (i.e. to scare the pants off folk), teasing… Read More

John Williams is 80

February 8, 2012 flawintheiris

Empire Magazine online has put together an amazing cross-section of excerpts from John Williams' scores. My favourites, aside from the most well-known Spielberg, Lucas and Superman themes, has to be that one from The Witches of Eastwick, described here as an "earworm."Click here for 80 Reasons Why John Williams is The Man. Read More