Tag Archives: Maika Monroe

In Cold Light review — Gritty Alberta thriller delivered by performances

February 28, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Maxime Giroux | Written by Patrick Whistler | 96 min | ▲▲1/2 I'm not the first to say it, but Maika Monroe should be a bigger star. She brings a rarely felt authenticity to every role she chooses, from The Guest and It Follows to Longlegs — that's certainly the case here where… Read More

Longlegs review — Grim amalgam of serial killer and supernatural thrillers

July 22, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Osgood Oz Perkins | 101 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime I'm late to the work of Oz Perkins, but I have it on good authority I should be seeing The Blackcoat's Daughter. On the strength of Longlegs I look forward to it. What we have here is evidence of a… Read More

Independence Day: Resurgence review — Xenomorph Boogaloo

June 28, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Roland Emmerich | Written by Emmerich, Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods, Dean Devlin, James Vanderbilt | 120 min | ▲▲△△△ Hearing this sequel was coming down the pike, I availed myself of the original Independence Day from 1996. I have friends who saw it at the right age, which gives them a rosy nostalgia about the movie. My… Read More

It Follows review — A creepfest of the highest order

March 26, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David Robert Mitchell | 101 min | Netflix, Amazon Prime, Crave The last time I was so pleasantly perplexed by a genre picture it was Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin, which came out last May. This is another puzzler with powerful undercurrents of sex and death, both an indie teen movie and a… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2014: Day Eight—Cronenberg, The Guest, and that’s a wrap!

September 19, 2014 flawintheiris

Is it possible it's all over so soon? Must be since I was sitting in a packed house for David Cronenberg's Maps To The Stars on Thursday night, and a week ago I was at the Cohn for the disappointing opener, Elephant Song. As a closer, the Cronenberg film was typically discomfiting from the Canadian provocateur—even… Read More