Tag Archives: Martin Freeman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever review — Unwieldy sequel wants to do too much

November 13, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Ryan Coogler | Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole | 161 min | ▲▲▲△△ The first Black Panther movie from 2018 is a gem in the Marvel Cinematic Universe pantheon — top five for sure — and was a huge hit. The vision of a technologically advanced, afro-futurist society that had never… Read More

Black Panther review — Afrofuturist Marvel epic delivers

February 18, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ryan Coogler | Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole | 134 minutes The Stan Lee/Jack Kirby-created Marvel comic character gets his own movie following his introduction in Captain America: Civil War. T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the Black Panther, is the king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. The country presents as impoverished… Read More

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot review — Tina Fey gets serious in formula dramedy

March 10, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa | Written by Robert Carlock, from the book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker | 112 min | ▲▲△△△ Here's another tale of Afghanistan told through a Western lens, following closely behind Afghan Luke, Hyena Road, and Rock The Kasbah. Tina Fey—serving as producer here… Read More

Mr Holmes review — Character drama tops elementary detective story

August 4, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Bill Condon, Written by Jeffrey Hatcher from a novel by Mitch Cullin. Based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. It's pretty amazing the lasting power of Sherlock Holmes in the culture, isn' t it? Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are carrying the torch on the BBC with the modern update, Sherlock, for the… Read More

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies review — The end of a long road

December 21, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Peter Jackson, Written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Guillermo Del Toro, from the novel by JRR Tolkien In the first few minutes of this final visit to Middle Earth by Peter Jackson, my cinepanion and I found ourselves whispering back and forth to each other. We had a lot of questions.… Read More

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug review

December 13, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Peter JacksonWritten by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Guillermo Del Toro, from the novel by JRR TolkienIt's the Hobbit 2: Electric Smaugaloo! (With apologies to Stephen Cooke—I had to use it!)Yes, it's the second in the wholly unnecessary three-part Hobbit saga. Full disclosure: I missed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in the… Read More

The World’s End review

September 12, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Simon Pegg | 109 min | On Demand You nerds know this: The World's End is the third and final film in Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, all made with buddies Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The thematic thread is pretty thin, but basically these three British guys… Read More

Wild Target review

October 3, 2011 flawintheiris

The new Jonathan Lynn movie, starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Martin Freeman and Rupert Grint, now on DVD. Check out my review here at The Coast. Read More