Tag Archives: Ryan Coogler

Creed III review — Eye of the Tiger, baby!

March 7, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael B. Jordan | Written by Keenan Coogler, Zach Baylin, and Ryan Coogler | 116 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime It's been almost 50 years, with Six Rocky movies and now three Creed movies. This is a pugilistic franchise with a remarkable cinematic lifespan. The way it pivoted to this spin-off was… Read More

Revisiting Creed and Creed II in advance of Creed III

February 28, 2023 flawintheiris

The third edition of the Creed movies, itself a spin-off of the Rocky franchise, arrives later this week directed by lead actor Michael B. Jordan. I thought this week would be a good time to have a look back at my thoughts on the first two films. (For reviews of the other Rocky pictures, go… Read More

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever review — Unwieldy sequel wants to do too much

November 13, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Ryan Coogler | Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole | 161 min | ▲▲▲△△ The first Black Panther movie from 2018 is a gem in the Marvel Cinematic Universe pantheon — top five for sure — and was a huge hit. The vision of a technologically advanced, afro-futurist society that had never… Read More

Black Panther review — Afrofuturist Marvel epic delivers

February 18, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ryan Coogler | Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole | 134 minutes The Stan Lee/Jack Kirby-created Marvel comic character gets his own movie following his introduction in Captain America: Civil War. T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the Black Panther, is the king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. The country presents as impoverished… Read More

LENS ME YOUR EARS: Ep. 019 “New Filmmakers”

May 2, 2016 flawintheiris

The podcast I co-host with Stephen Cooke is back after a brief hiatus with a show about up-and-coming filmmakers who've caught our attention. Included in the discussion are Jeff Nichols, Jean-Marc Vallée, Denis Villeneuve, Jeremy Saulnier, Ryan Coogler, and many more. Check it out, and our other recent LENS ME YOUR EARS podcasts, here on… Read More

Creed review — Franchise finds new life in boxing scion

November 24, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Ryan Coogler | Written by Coogler and Aaron Covington, from characters by Sylvester Stallone | 132 min | Amazon Prime This movie has no business being this good. This is the seventh feature in the Rocky series, a 30-year franchise that's already shown us everything its got: Read its last rights back in 1990 with the… Read More