Tag Archives: Maika Monroe

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 | Amazon Prime 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 horror, often… 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