Tag Archives: Theo James

War On Everyone (2017) review — Foul-mouthed gem of a crime comedy

August 3, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Michael McDonagh | 98 min | Kanopy Director McDonagh out-blacks Shane Black with a shockingly funny buddy cop movie starring Michael Pena and Alexander Skarsgaard. For all those of you who liked The Nice Guys, this is literally the next best thing. First off, it’s set in Albuquerque, New Mexico,… Read More

Archive review — Sci-fi pastiche looks great, has problems

July 27, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Gavin Rothery | 109 min | Amazon Prime and On Demand The first feature from a visual effects supervisor on Moon channels a lot of the impressive visual imagination he brought to the Duncan Jones movie. His Archive works with a few promising science fiction concepts while being a pulpy amalgam… Read More

Reviews: London Town, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Calvary, London Has Fallen

February 4, 2017 flawintheiris

London Town Directed by Derrick Borte | Written by Matt Brown, based on the screenplay Untitled Joe Strummer Project by Sonya Gildea and Kirsten Sheridan | 92 min | iTunes and VOD Shay Baker (Daniel Huttlestone) is a 14-year-old living in '70s Wanstead, an East London suburb. Dad Nick (Dougray Scott) moves pianos for a… Read More

Reviews: Creative Control, Misconduct, The Benefactor, Queen of Earth, MI-5

May 16, 2016 flawintheiris

Creative Control Directed by Benjamin Dickinson | Written by Dickinson and Micah Bloomberg | 97 min. | ▲▲▲▲△ | On DVD, Blu-Ray, and VOD May 17 My first impression of Creative Control was that star/director/writer Dickinson is a narcotized Noah Baumbach. Not a terribly generous thought, but that's what I was thinking. As I went deeper into his… Read More

Insurgent review — An unremarkable return to the faction-filled future

March 30, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Schwentke, written by Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman, and Mark Bomback, from the novel by Veronica Roth. Insurgent is a dull, big-budget misfire. What was silly but ebullient in the first film, Divergent, feels heavy-handed and irritating in its sequel. Characters who formerly seemed appealing now come across as insipid. And a storyline that… Read More

Divergent review

March 27, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Neil Burger Written by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor, from the novel by Veronica Roth It's been a while since I've had such aggressively ambivalent feelings about a movie. While I felt the premise and many of the plot details were ridiculous and poorly thought-out, I really enjoyed the feature's execution: The direction,… Read More