Tag Archives: Toby Kebbell

Bloodshot review — Mechanical actioner a waste of time

March 25, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Dave Wilson | Written by Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer, based on the comic by Kevin VanHook, Bob Layton, and Don Perlin | 109 min | On Demand and Amazon Prime With all the suction Vin Diesel has in Hollywood, he can green light any movie concept imaginable. It makes sense he'd want… Read More

Destroyer review — Kidman goes gritty in flawed thriller

January 25, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Karyn Kusama | Written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi | 121 min | Prime Video Karyn Kusama hangs her movie on Nicole Kidman's thousand-yard stare. Kidman is Detective Erin Bell, with some particularly horrendous prosthetics and make-up around those eyes. If we're supposed to assume she's an addict, the film is coy… Read More

Kong: Skull Island review — Good Time Gorilla Warfare

March 9, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts | Written by Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly, and John Gatins | 120 min Kong: Skull Island is as much a movie about movies as it is a movie about a big ape. It's a deeply self-reflexive summer blockbuster weirdly released in March. But, that's fine: It embraces what it… Read More

Fantastic Four review — A descent into superhero awfulness

August 10, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Josh Trank, Written by Trank, Simon Kinberg, and Jeremy Slater, based on the Marvel comic by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby The Fantastic Four I grew up with was written and illustrated by Canadian comic creator John Byrne. Before superhero comics got all mature and gritty with Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, these… Read More

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review

July 13, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Reeves, Written by Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, from a novel by Pierre Boulle I enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes, released back in 2011. It seemed an unlikely prequel to a 43-year-old film, but as a slab of b-movie entertainment I thought it worked. My biggest beef with… 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