Tag Archives: Tom Hiddleston

Thor: Ragnarok review — The God of Thunder lightens up

November 3, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Taika Waititi | Written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost | 130 min It's the third Thor movie. Can you believe it? If I could go back in time and tell 10-year-old Carsten we'd have three Thor movies by 2017, not to mention all the Iron Man, Avengers, and X-Men movies,… 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

High-Rise review — Pitch black class comedy

May 26, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Ben Wheatley | Written by Amy Jump, based on the novel by JG Ballard | 119 min |▲▲▲△△ Dogs have a rough time of it in High-Rise—injured, drowned, and eaten. Though, by the film's end, you might start to think they were the lucky ones. This is a pitch black comedy, a class… Read More

Crimson Peak review — More Gothic, Less Horror

October 20, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, Written by Del Toro and Matthew Robbins | 119 min | On Demand This week I noted that Bridge of Spies had some misleading advertising with a somewhat misleading title: It's more a historical drama than a spy movie. For Crimson Peak's promotional assault, the actors and director have been… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Post Six — Biopic Tuesday

September 23, 2015 flawintheiris

Life Directed by Anton Corbijn | Written by Luke Davies | 111 min. Though I heard a scoff or two from a fellow #AFF2015-goer when I admitted I was attending the R-Patz drama, it wasn't the former Twilight actor that drew me to the film, it was the director: Corbijn got his start as a… Read More

Only Lovers Left Alive review

May 21, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch Ah, the welcome return of the godfather of American indie film. It's a real delight to see something new from Jarmusch. For those who don't know his stuff, he's best known for languid, atmospheric features low on plot but high on characters skirting the margins of society. His films include Stranger Than… Read More

Blockbuster Blues 2014: The Good and The Grim Prospects for This Season at The Movies

May 14, 2014 flawintheiris

This summer's blockbuster selection looks pretty dire, I gotta say. In April we had Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Transcendence. This month we've got The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past. These are big-budget science fiction and fantasy films, highly anticipated, which make all in the Nerd Nation very happy—and me too. But the first three are… Read More

Thor: The Dark World review

November 11, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Alan Taylor | Screenplay by Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely | Story by Don Payne and Robert Rodat | From the Marvel Comic by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby | 111 min | Netflix Hard to believe this is the eighth big-budget entertainment in this daisy-chain of Marvel movies,… Read More

The Avengers review

May 5, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Joss Whedon Written by Whedon and Zak Penn From the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby I'm at a bit of a loss to describe the scale of this thing, this Avengers movie. It's been in the works for some time, going back to Iron Man and Hulk in 2008.… Read More