Tag Archives: Walton Goggins

The Uninvited review — Hollywood and Time

May 20, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Nadia Conners | 97 min | ▲▲ | VOD This is a talky, Tinsel Town satire of the sort where a group of entitled people gather, indulge in substances and discuss issues of age and paths not taken. It’s cut from the cloth of California Split or The Anniversary Party. Rose (Elizabeth… Read More

The Luckiest Man in America review — The price isn’t quite right

April 9, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Samir Oliveros | Written by Oliveros, Maggie Briggs, and Amanda Freedman | 91 min | ▲▲1/2 Loosely inspired by actual events, here's a story about the insincerity of American media and how someone found a way to game it. Is that the American dream? Go a little deeper it's about an average man… Read More

Predator series review

August 5, 2022 flawintheiris

As a science-fiction series birthed out of slam-bang, macho Hollywood of the 1980s, this one falls behind The Terminator and Alien by some distance. Maybe that's because those pictures have at least two stone cold classics each, while this one, despite a number of attempts to capture the magic of the first, still rides on… Read More

Ant-Man and The Wasp review — The incredible shrinking satisfaction of this Marvel franchise

July 8, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed | Written by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, and Gabriel Ferrari | 118 min Trust Marvel Studios to mix it up again, following the afro-futurist adventure of Black Panther and the cosmic drama of Avengers: Infinity War, with a return to what feels like a side-project, a movie with… Read More

Tomb Raider review — Remarkably entertaining video-game adaptation

March 25, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Roar Uthaug | Written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Alastair Siddons, and Evan Daugherty | 118 min I can barely recall the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies. What I do remember is Jolie's Lara Croft was a largely personality-free automaton who looked great kicking ass. Was it a pre-007 Daniel Craig's ass she kicked? Maybe.… Read More

The Hateful Eight review — Moustache-deep in snow, chuckles, and gore

January 6, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino | 187 min. | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix No one will be arguing that The Hateful Eight represents the best of what this Academy Award-winning former video store clerk has given the cinematic world. After all, Quentin Tarantino is the guy who wrote and directed Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Inglourious… Read More