Tag Archives: Liev Schreiber

Scream series 1-4 review

January 17, 2022 flawintheiris

I saw the original Scream when it first showed in cinemas 25 years ago and I thought it was... fine. At the time I recognized what master horrormeister Wes Craven and his collaborators were doing — a clever and ironic take on all the horror tropes and cliches Craven indulged in and exploited in earlier films… Read More

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review — Trippy visuals work with swinging story

December 27, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | Written by Rothman and Phil Lord | 117 min | Netflix An animated return to Spider-Man from Sony, who signed away the rights to live-action Spider-tales back to Marvel, but can still use the character in animation. Call him the Loophole Wallcrawler. Everything about Sony's… Read More

Goon: Last Of The Enforcers review

March 16, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Jay Baruchel | Written by Baruchel and Jesse Chabot, based on the book Goon by Adam Frattasio and Douglas Smith | 101 min The first Goon was a violent and foul-mouthed hockey comedy with a surprisingly sweet hook and a solid central performance by Seann William Scott. Maybe my biggest grudge against it was… Read More

Spotlight review — Celebrating the power of the press

November 26, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom McCarthy | Written by McCarthy and Josh Singer | 128 min About 15 years ago a group of investigative reporters from the Boston Globe started to dig into reports of Catholic priests abusing children, and that the executive in the diocese were complicit in covering it up, relocating the priests to other parishes… Read More