Tag Archives: Matthew Vaughn

Kingsman: The Golden Circle review — The same, but less

September 25, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Matthew Vaughn | Written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, based on The Secret Service by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons | 141 min Kingsman: The Secret Service is an odd, postmodern action movie, one that revels in all its James Bond 007-aping tropes, but serving them up in a class-conscious, R-rated, vaguely satirical dish. I… Read More

Deadpool review — The Mouth Makes It Work

February 16, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Tim Miller, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, based on a character created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△ Deadpool was a genuine novelty when he first showed up in comics. Wise-ass and self-aware with a big fourth-wall-breaking mouth, he's a comic book character who knows he's a… Read More

Kingsman: The Secret Service review — Spy movie pastiche delivers OTT violence

February 14, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Matthew Vaughn, written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, from a comic by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons Vaughn and Millar were responsible for Kick-Ass, the indie superhero movie. It had a lot going for it, but it left a bad taste in my mouth—aside from being genuinely kick ass in its action sequences and… Read More

X-Men: Days Of Future Past review

May 25, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Bryan Singer, written by Simon Kinburg from a story by Kinburg, Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn I never really understood why 20th Century Fox chose to prematurely conclude the X-Men franchise. Fox officially called it quits as a trilogy, with Brent Ratner's limp X-Men: The Last Stand back in 2006. Yes, Singer's beneath-the-skin understanding… Read More

The Debt review

September 4, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by John MaddenWritten by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan,based on the film Ha-Hov by Assaf Bernstein and Ido RosenblumRachel Singer (Helen Mirren), ex-husband Stephan Gold (Tom Wilkinson) and ex-pat David Peretz (Ciaran Hinds) are national heroes in their homeland of Israel. In the mid-1960s they were Mossad agents, assigned to East Berlin… Read More

X-Men: First Class review

June 5, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Matthew VaughnWritten by Ashley Miller, Zach Stentz, Jane Goldman and VaughnX-Men: First Class is a bit of a surprise. At this point in the X-Men franchise, we'd been put through the Brett Ratner third movie, X-Men: The Last Stand and the X-Men Origins: Wolverine spin-off, neither of which lived up to the promise… Read More