Tag Archives: Matthew McConaughey

A Decade of FITI reviews: Interstellar

February 16, 2022 flawintheiris

Having written thousands of reviews over the (actually more than) 10 years of this blog, I figured it might be fun to go into the vault and bring dusty, perhaps forgotten reviews back into the light. Expect these to show up around once a week for the next little while. I may lightly edit these… Read More

The Gentlemen review — Guy Ritchie returns to his comfort zone

January 30, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Guy Ritchie | 103 min When a filmmaker tills a familiar patch of ground, it's easy to take their efforts for granted, and, even more so, criticize when they take detours off that property. British auteur Guy Ritchie made his name with the gangster movie—Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch,… Read More

Serenity (2019) review — Sweaty thriller spoiled in the twist

January 29, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Steven Knight | 106 min | Prime Video My co-host Stephen Cooke and I have been getting into the work of M. Night Shyamalan on our podcast, LENS ME YOUR EARS (Episode #74), where I out myself as an apologist for the Philadelphia filmmaker. I have time for a storyteller as… Read More

Gold review — Fool on a hill

January 26, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed of Stephen Gaghan | Written by Patrick Massett and John Zinman | 121 min | Amazon Prime After last week's The Founder, and a long, dubious cinematic tradition of rags-to-riches tales where a fast-talking white dude exploits people and gets massively rich (before, sometimes, falling back in the gutter) you might wonder why we… Read More

Kubo and the Two Strings review — Sad Son of the Samurai

August 28, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Travis Knight | Written by Marc Haimes, Chris Butler and Shannon Tindle | 101 min | Amazon Prime The three or four trailers before this gorgeous animated feature (from the Portland-based Laika studio that produced Coraline) were your typical, caffeinated, hyper-edited kiddie chum animation. In comparison to those, Kubo and the Two Strings is a breath of… Read More

Magic Mike XXL review — More than Sausage Showgirls

June 29, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Gregory Jacobs, Written by Reid Carolin Magic Mike, released back in the summer of 2012, was a sleeper hit, especially with female audiences. It surprised me, personally, by being pretty good. It was much more a drama in the Saturday Night Fever/Flashdance mould more than just an exploitation picture about strippers — though,… Read More

Interstellar review — A grand (and sometimes head-scratching) space adventure

November 8, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Christopher Nolan, written by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan | Netflix Steven Spielberg reportedly once said if he could go back he'd change the ending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Once Spielberg had kids, he realized the Richard Dreyfuss character, Roy Neary, would never have left his family behind to go into space… Read More

The Wolf of Wall Street review

January 12, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Martin Scorcese Written by Terrence Winter, from the Jordan Belfort book A wildly funny film, The Wolf Of Wall Street probably won't be considered one of Scorcese's great works for a couple of reasons. 1) It revels in excess at a time when that is particularly unfashionable, five years since those Wall Street… Read More

Dallas Buyers Club review

November 24, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée Written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack Dallas Buyers Club is a moving gallery of gaunt, desperate faces. At its fore is Matthew McConaughey's, an actor who in the past two years, with sterling work in films such as The Lincoln Lawyer, Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, and Mud, has turned… Read More