Tag Archives: Mickey Rourke

Girl review — Moody little thriller carried by Bella Thorne

June 12, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Chad Faust | 92 min | Crave And the gritty b-picture with the least imaginative title award for 2021 goes to...! The good news is despite the generic marquee, the picture offers a passable family drama punctuated by a few moments of humour, an efficient action scene or two, one involving… Read More

10 Pieces of Music Inseparable From a Movie

March 4, 2019 flawintheiris

This post is borne out of a conversation that came up between friends some time ago, about the how some pre-existing songs have been used so successfully in film to make them forever joined with said film in my mind and heart. In some cases it's because the picture introduced me to the song, or… Read More

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For review

August 22, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, adapting Frank Miller's series of graphic novels I wonder if there's a best before date for sequels. Perhaps if more than five years passes since the original's release, any plans for a sequel should be scrapped. Can anyone tell me about a sequel that showed up more than five… Read More

The Counselor review

October 27, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley ScottWritten by Cormac McCarthyThis is the first screenplay written directly for the big screen by Pulitzer Prize-winning McCarthy, whose dusty, western novels often concern themselves with the darkness in men's hearts—adapted in movies like No Country For Old Men and All The Pretty Horses, as well as the post-apocalyptic The Road. This,… Read More

Iron Man 3 review

May 3, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Shane Black | Written by Black and Drew Pearce, from a Marvel Comic by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby | 131 min | Netflix Here's the beginning of the next phase of Marvel's world cinema domination. It's working pretty well for them so far. Robert Downey Jr is back… Read More

Top 10 Movies of 2008

August 30, 2012 flawintheiris

Continuing my look back to the years before I became the Mad Blogger What Blogs at Midnight, here's my thoughts on the best movies of 2008. CAPS where my 2012 self felt the need to editorialize... there are about five in my Honourable Mentions list that deserved top-ten status. Oh well. I had no trouble… Read More

Remembering Tony Scott

August 20, 2012 flawintheiris

It wasn't cool to say you were a fan of Tony Scott's movies. Among cine-snob circles, anyway. His work was too commercial, too mainstream. He wasn't an auteur because he didn't write his own features. And Ridley, his older brother, got more acclaim, won more awards and had a bigger fanbase thanks to Alien and… Read More