Tag Archives: Michael Pena

Moonfall review — Big and dumb, but not unwatchable

April 6, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Roland Emmerich | Written by Emmerich, Harald Kloser, and Spenser Cohen | 130 min | ▲▲△△△ | Amazon Prime Love him or hate him, German-born filmmaker Roland Emmerich is the undisputed king of the Disaster Movie, the genre loved by the public and largely spat upon by critics. Independence Day is the one… Read More

War On Everyone (2017) review — Foul-mouthed gem of a crime comedy

August 3, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Michael McDonagh | 98 min | Kanopy Director McDonagh out-blacks Shane Black with a shockingly funny buddy cop movie starring Michael Pena and Alexander Skarsgaard. For all those of you who liked The Nice Guys, this is literally the next best thing. First off, it’s set in Albuquerque, New Mexico,… Read More

The Mule review — Eastwood’s still got some game

January 2, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Clint Eastwood | Written by Nick Schenk from an article by Sam Dolnick | 116 min | Netflix Clint Eastwood is tireless. At age 88 he's still acting, directing, and producing feature films, and while he's been criticized for both his politics and his casual way with detail—the fake baby in American Sniper comes… 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

Reviews: London Town, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Calvary, London Has Fallen

February 4, 2017 flawintheiris

London Town Directed by Derrick Borte | Written by Matt Brown, based on the screenplay Untitled Joe Strummer Project by Sonya Gildea and Kirsten Sheridan | 92 min | iTunes and VOD Shay Baker (Daniel Huttlestone) is a 14-year-old living in '70s Wanstead, an East London suburb. Dad Nick (Dougray Scott) moves pianos for a… Read More

The Martian review — Deep Space Hokum

October 2, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by Drew Goddard from a book by Andy Weir | 141 min Sometimes professionalism is its own reward, and sometimes it isn't. Ridley Scott is a craftsperson of the highest order, and here he delivers a very well-made film crammed with entertainment, if you can manage to ignore the… 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

Fury review — Blood, mud, and tanks

October 18, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by David Ayer Ayer is what I call a macho director. I bet he's seen every single one of Sam Peckinpah's movies. He wrote U-571 , The Fast & The Furious, and Training Day, he wrote and directed End of Watch and Sabotage. He knows about guys, guns, and sweat, and that's what… Read More