Tag Archives: Lashana Lynch

Bob Marley: One Love review — Official story is flawed, but the music isn’t

February 16, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green | Written by Green, Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers, and Zach Baylin | 104 min | ▲▲▲△△ I call it biopic-itis. The biographical pictures genre is so in love with conventions, especially the musical biopic subset, it tends to get locked into a highly predictable collection of plot developments, dramatic… Read More

The Woman King review — Epic drama overcomes conventionality

October 1, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood | Written by Dana Stevens and Maria Bello | 135 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave Watching this romantic epic was accompanied by a sudden and uncomfortable realization of how little I know about African history. I had heard that the female warriors of a pre-colonial African empire inspired the Dora Milaje… Read More

No Time To Die review — Daniel Craig’s final Bond is grand… until it isn’t

October 9, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga | Written by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga, and Phoebe Waller Bridge, based on characters by Ian Fleming | 163 min | Crave It's finally here after more than a year of delays,… Read More

Captain Marvel review — Not an interstellar debut, but entertaining

March 8, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | Written by Bowden, Fleck, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Nicole Perlman, and Meg LeFauve | 124 min | Disney + Well, it certainly took them long enough. I'm talking about a Marvel Studios superhero movie with a female lead. It should've been Black Widow, way back in the MCU second… Read More