Tag Archives: Kevin Bacon

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review (and series review)

July 7, 2024 flawintheiris

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F | Directed by Mark Molloy | Written by Will Beall , Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten | 118 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix When a huge star from the past reappears in one of his classic roles, it's tough to get it right. If you're too faithful to the original you… Read More

X, Pearl, and MaXXXine reviews — Ti West’s trilogy of slasher love

July 4, 2024 flawintheiris

I'm late catching up with Ti West's time-spanning horror trilogy, but better late than never with MaXXXine opening this week. X (2022) | Written and Directed by Ti West | 105 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix It's 1979, and strip-club manager and aspiring porn filmmaker Wayne (Martin Henderson) takes his crew — RJ (Owen Campbell)… Read More

Leave The World Behind review — Apocalypse now and more later on

December 6, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Esmail | Written by Esmail, based on the novel by Rumaan Alam | 148 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix This is one of those Netflix features that got a week in cinemas in advance of its debut on the streaming giant, but with no hype you'd be forgiven for missing it. That's… Read More

Tremors (1990) review — Creature feature just as good 30 years later

October 21, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Ron Underwood | Written by Underwood, SS Wilson, and Brent Maddock | 96 min | Netflix There's a good reason Tremors has become a monster movie cult classic in the 30 years since its release and spawned a host of straight-to-video sequels, a one-season TV series, and even, recently, a pilot for Blumhouse… Read More

Black Mass review — Ordinary Gangster

September 26, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Cooper | Written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, based on the book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill | 122 min. Let's talk about Joel Edgerton for a second. He's proven himself a capable character actor in films like Warrior and The Great Gatsby, and this summer he directed a reasonably impressive… Read More

“Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” and Google

September 13, 2012 flawintheiris

Believe it or not, now Google provides you with a "Bacon Number." (Makes you wonder if you can find anyone who's ever worked in Hollywood who has as many as six degrees from him. Most of the ones I've tried are between one and three degrees...) Read More

Crazy, Stupid, Love review

August 1, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa Written by Dan Fogelman Oh, I had high hopes for Crazy, Stupid, Love. The directors' previous work includes Bad Santa and I Love You Phillip Morris, both genre-pushing in their own ways. And then there's this cast, which assembled for a romantic… Read More

X-Men: First Class review

June 5, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Matthew VaughnWritten by Ashley Miller, Zach Stentz, Jane Goldman and VaughnX-Men: First Class is a bit of a surprise. At this point in the X-Men franchise, we'd been put through the Brett Ratner third movie, X-Men: The Last Stand and the X-Men Origins: Wolverine spin-off, neither of which lived up to the promise… Read More