Tag Archives: Michael Douglas

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review — Psychedelic fun with tiny superhero family

February 20, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed | Written by Jeff Loveness | 125 min | ▲▲▲△△ In the past couple of years the vastly successful experiment that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe has lost its way. After the high points of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the new movies haven't had the narrative coherence, urgency, nor the… Read More

Ant-Man and The Wasp review — The incredible shrinking satisfaction of this Marvel franchise

July 8, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed | Written by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, and Gabriel Ferrari | 118 min Trust Marvel Studios to mix it up again, following the afro-futurist adventure of Black Panther and the cosmic drama of Avengers: Infinity War, with a return to what feels like a side-project, a movie with… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: Spring 2018

May 10, 2018 flawintheiris

Mute (2018) A sci-fi thriller half a mess and half an interesting exercise in style. That it comes from Duncan Jones, the filmmaker responsible for Moon, Source Code, and, yes, Warcraft, hopes were high this would be a strong genre entry, but Mute never hits above its pulpy elements. We're in future Berlin, which looks… Read More

Ant-Man review — Incredible shrinking man brings so-so superheroics

July 19, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed, Written by Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Paul Rudd, and Adam McKay, from the Marvel Comics character by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby I'm a fan of what Marvel does. A series of interconnected movies about superheroes, stories told with intelligence and humour, they're wildly and deservedly popular and, for… Read More

Behind the Candelabra review

May 28, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven SoderberghWritten by Richard LaGravenese, based on the book by Alex Thorleifson and Scott ThorsonThis feels like such an unlikely film, a biopic of the legendary entertainer Liberace. He was an extraordinarily private person for someone in the public eye, spending his entire life closeted. I think we can have a lot of… Read More

Haywire review — Terrific spy thriller delivers wall-to-wall action

January 21, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Written by Lem Dobbs | 93 min | Hoopla Oh, how much fun is Haywire? It's from Steven Soderbergh, who is always an interesting director—I'm a big fan of The Limey, Out of Sight, sex lies and videotape and Solaris, with much respect for Traffic, last year's Contagion, Erin Brockovich… Read More

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps review

March 5, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Oliver StoneWritten by Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff, based oncharacters by Stone and Stanley WeiserOn DVDAbout 40 minutes into Oliver Stone’s revisiting of his 80s screed on the dangers and allure of big money, the sequel to Wall Street feels just a little, I dunno, drab? It’s hard to put your finger on… Read More