Tag Archives: Patrick Wilson

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

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 5 — Stinkers

August 5, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I've been doing here on FITI since 2010. I still have a… Read More

Aquaman review — Fishy adventure, splashy fun

December 28, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by James Wan | Written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall, with Geoff Johns | 143 min | Netflix Every once in awhile, following a bunch of self-serious, mediocre films, one comes along that knows it isn't Shakespeare, and doesn't care. It's a good-bad movie, and it embraces its inner cheese and its… Read More

The Conjuring review

July 23, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by James Wan | Written by Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes | 112 min | On Demand Well, wasn't that terrifying. Excellent...? Well, not quite. But effective? Yes, right on the money. It's based on the purportedly true story of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) and… Read More

Young Adult review

December 21, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason ReitmanWritten by Diablo CodyIn a high school reunion movie (it's a genre, you know) Mavis Gary would be the antagonist, the lady who was the mean girl as a teen and is still a bitch 20 years later—even though she's by many societal standards a success. The closest we've seen to her… Read More