Tag Archives: Michelle Yeoh

Everything Everywhere All At Once review — Bonkers sci-fi comedy has plenty of heart

April 17, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by The Daniels, Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | 139 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime If the Daniels aren't a familiar filmmaking name to you, they have a rep as creative, unusual filmmakers. They're maybe best known for a bizarre dark comedy, Swiss Army Man, the farting corpse movie with Paul… Read More

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings review — Tony Leung is this superhero movie’s MVP

September 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton | Written by Cretton, Dave Callaham, and Andrew Lanham | 132 min | In Cinemas The first thing anyone who might've been a fan of the original Marvel comic, Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu — as problematic as it could sometimes could be — should do coming into this feature is… Read More

Gunpowder Milkshake review — Feminist, uber-violent actioner a whole lot of fun

July 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Navot Papushado | Written by Papushado and Ehud Lavski | 114 min | Netflix "There's a group of men called The Firm. When they need someone to clean up a mess, they send me." That's how this stylish, candy-neon actioner starts, right in the head of Sam (Karen Gillan), an assassin living in… Read More

Boss Level review — Groundhog Day as a video-game actioner

July 16, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Carnahan | Written by Carnahan, Chris Borey, and Eddie Borey | 94 min | Amazon Prime When we meet Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo), he's already died and been revived more than 140 times. He's been decapitated, crushed, and knocked into a bus. He's deep into this time loop scenario, so familiar from… Read More

Last Christmas revisit review — Better than you’ve heard

December 6, 2020 flawintheiris

People who know me know I love London — I went to high school there and have visited probably a dozen times since those years. Exactly a year ago I in town, a gorgeous week of galleries, theatre, and a lot of walking down streets adorned with all the lights of the holidays — as… Read More

Last Christmas review — Seasonal romcom a joy

November 10, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Paul Feig | Written by Emma Thompson, Greg Wise, and Bryony Kimmings | 102 min | On Demand I try not to blame a movie for the mistakes of its marketing, but have you seen the trailers for Last Christmas? They sell it as a sweet romantic comedy set in London at Christmas,… Read More

Crazy Rich Asians review — Traditional romcom with diverse approach

August 22, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by John M. Chu | Written by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, from the novel by Kevin Kwan | 120 min | On Demand First, lets all celebrate the arrival of a full-on, undeniably old-fashioned romantic comedy. Crazy Rich Asians triples down (is that even a thing?) on all the well-established cliches of the… Read More

Morgan review — Pulpy but Satisfying Science Fiction

September 7, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Luke Scott | Written by Seth W. Owen | 92 min. | ▲▲▲△△ Nice to see young directors go into the family business. Consider Sofia Coppola and her many excellent films, or more recently, Brandon Cronenberg's body horror Antiviral, which evoked some of his father David's work. Now we've got Luke Scott, son of Ridley, with Dad… Read More

James Bond 007: The Pierce Brosnan Era

November 8, 2012 flawintheiris

For years, even before he was Bond, Pierce Brosnan seemed a natural choice to have a licence to kill. The story is that he visited the set of For Your Eyes Only to see his wife Cassandra Harris, who was playing the Countess who is romanced by Roger Moore's James Bond. Producer "Cubby" Broccoli immediately… Read More