Tag Archives: Jonathan Majors

Creed III review — Eye of the Tiger, baby!

March 7, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael B. Jordan | Written by Keenan Coogler, Zach Baylin, and Ryan Coogler | 116 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime It's been almost 50 years, with Six Rocky movies and now three Creed movies. This is a pugilistic franchise with a remarkable cinematic lifespan. The way it pivoted to this spin-off was… Read More

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review — Psychedelic fun with tiny superhero family

February 20, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed | Written by Jeff Loveness | 125 min | ▲▲▲△△ In the past couple of years the vastly successful experiment that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe has lost its way. After the high points of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the new movies haven't had the narrative coherence, urgency, nor the… Read More

The Harder They Fall review — A shotgun blast of good times

November 6, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jeymes Samuel | Written by Samuel and Boaz Yakin | 130 min | Netflix Westerns with Black casts aren't unprecedented, but they are a rarity. That's not all that makes this picture special — Director Jeymes Samuel, also a musican, tells the story with action and style to spare, fuel-injected with a hip-hop… Read More

Da 5 Bloods review — Spike Lee’s Vietnam War thriller on point

June 14, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Spike Lee | Written by Lee, Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, and Kevin Willmott | 154 min | Netflix Four American Vietnam veterans — Paul, Otis, Melvin, and Eddie (Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr, and Norm Lewis) — are in country for the first time in decades — officially to get… Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema: Fall 2019 Season review

January 4, 2020 flawintheiris

It was a challenging season at Halifax's Carbon Arc Independent Cinema. For the first time in a decade a screening was cancelled by a distributor, who pulled a film because they could get shown for two weeks with Cineplex. Then, on the heels of that, streaming giant Netflix decided at the last minute to pull… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: December 2018

December 19, 2018 flawintheiris

Roma One could make an argument last year's Mudbound was the feature that signalled Netlfix's prestige drama interest, readying their horses for the annual Oscar race. Roma is really the tipping point, a film with the critical momentum to suggest it could actually take the Best Picture statuette. I'd be surprised, simply because it's much… Read More