Tag Archives: Karen Gillan

The Life Of Chuck review — King adaptation hits and misses

June 11, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Mike Flanagan | Written by Flanagan, from a Stephen King short story | 111 min | ▲▲▲ A version of this review first appeared on FITI in September 2024 as part of coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. Filmmaker Mike Flanagan brings to the big screen his third Stephen King story after… Read More

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 review — The best MCU in light years

May 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by James Gunn | 150 min | ▲▲▲▲△ I've gone on the record complaining about the Marvel Studios output in recent years — a distinct drop off from their heady days of the double-whammy: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. They've picked up the slack with the excellent stable of Disney+ series,… Read More

Gunpowder Milkshake review — Feminist, uber-violent actioner a whole lot of fun

July 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Navot Papushado | Written by Papushado and Ehud Lavski | 114 min | Netflix "There's a group of men called The Firm. When they need someone to clean up a mess, they send me." That's how this stylish, candy-neon actioner starts, right in the head of Sam (Karen Gillan), an assassin living in… Read More

Jumanji: The Next Level review — An OK sequel to a better movie

January 19, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Jake Kasdan | Written by Kasdan, Jeff Pinker, and Scott Rosenberg, based on a book by Chris Van Allsburg | 123 min | Netflix Though I'm surprised to find I never wrote it up on this blog, I did see 2017's Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle—I think on an airplane. It's a good… Read More

Avengers: Endgame review — Imperfect endings, but still epic

April 27, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo | Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely based on comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Jim Starlin | 181 min | Disney + If you haven't seen Avengers: Endgame yet, don't worry, I won't spoil it for you in the main body of this review. I've… Read More

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 review — A Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang Good Time

May 8, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and directed by James Gunn | 136 min Yup, the newest Marvel movie is a sequel to that surprise megahit of August 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy, which at the time seemed like a huge gamble for the studio. Adapting an obscure comic about a group of space-freebooters gave Marvel a foothold in fantasy/science fiction beyond… Read More

The Circle review — Black Mirror for Dummies

May 3, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by James Ponsoldt | Written by Ponsoldt and Dave Eggers, from Eggers' novel | 110 min Mae (Emma Watson) is an American Girl living somewhere in America... probably California. She drives a crappy car, has a crappy job, but a cute boy, Mercer (Ellar Coltrane, of Boyhood), who builds deer antler chandeliers in his… Read More

Guardians of the Galaxy review

August 1, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by James Gunn, Written by Gunn and Nicole Perlman Looking at the predicted huge box office tallies for this first weekend in August, The Guardians of the Galaxy doesn't seem like the big gamble for Marvel Studios it must have been on paper. Consider that every movie they've done so far, with the possible… Read More