Tag Archives: Steve Kloves

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore review — The Cursed Franchise

April 25, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by David Yates | Written by JK Rowling and Steve Kloves | 142 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave OK, so maybe calling these movies "cursed" is an over-dramatization — but let me make my case: This is a Harry Potter-related franchise where they'd secured a wildly talented star as its bad guy — Colin… Read More

A Decade of FITI reviews: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and Part II

February 8, 2022 flawintheiris

Having written thousands of reviews over the (actually more than) 10 years of this blog, I figured it might be fun to go into the vault and bring dusty, perhaps forgotten reviews back into the light. Expect these to show up around once a week for the next little while. I may lightly edit these… Read More

The Amazing Spider-Man review

July 17, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Marc Webb Written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves from a story by Vanderbilt and comics by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. This film really should credit John Romita, too, because as my friend Dave Howlett remarked, Emma Stone is the spitting image of that legendary Marvel artist's Gwen Stacey, right… Read More

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and 2 review

July 31, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by David YatesWritten by Steve Kloves from the novels by JK RowlingI confess to have experienced my fair share of Potter fatigue. The last Harry Potter movie I can recall genuinely enjoying was the third one, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban from 2004, directed by Alfonso Cuaron. The fourth, fifth and sixth… Read More