Tag Archives: M. Night Shyamalan

Knock At The Cabin review — Disappointed at the end of the world

February 11, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by M Night Shyamalan | Written by Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, and Michael Sherman, based on the book The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay | 100 min | ▲▲△△△ | Amazon Prime I've always admired M Night Shyamalan's willingness to set his films in entirely recognizable realities but still push… Read More

Old review — Shyamalan goes back to The Village

July 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | Written by Shyamalan, based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters | 108 min | Netflix If you've seen the trailer, you know the premise: A group of people vacationing at an exclusive resort on a tropical island head to a remote beach for the… Read More

Glass review — Ambitious superhero movie reflects, breaks

January 18, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | 129 min | Netflix This is a deeply unlikely picture, stitching together the filmmaker's Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2017) in an amalgam that goes off in directions that stretch credulity, while still delivering enough of Shyamalan's ambition and gift for fantasy cinema storytelling to make it worthwhile.… Read More

Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2017) reviews — Filmmaker connects his films across two decades

January 17, 2019 flawintheiris

With the sequel Glass opening on Friday, January 18, I thought it worthwhile to rewatch its predecessors. My review of Split is a light rewriting of the original from February, 2017. Unbreakable | Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | 106 min | (2000) Shyamalan is one of the few directors working who has a brand,… Read More

Split review — Form returns for suspense thriller filmmaker

February 11, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | 117 min | Netflix, Amazon Prime, Crave Shyamalan is one of the few directors who has a brand, and one who's seen that brand dragged through the mud. For awhile now, the name M. Night Shyamalan has been shorthand for shlocky genre pictures, his go-to favourite storytelling crutch—a… Read More

“The Art of the Modern Movie Trailer” from NPR (and ones that suck)

January 20, 2012 flawintheiris

I see so many movie trailers that the pacing, the pitch and psychology of them is like a language I don't speak but passively and completely understand. I admire a good one, a trailer that subverts the expectations, like this one. And I agree with this NPR story about movie trailers, The Girl With The… Read More