Tag Archives: Werner Herzog

20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (From the 20th Century)

May 24, 2021 flawintheiris

I started with Netflix, notorious for having a shallow catalogue of older movies, then went on to Disney's new service, Star. Now I'm having a look at Prime, which actually boasts a bigger variety of films 21 years or older. Here's some of the best available now: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) This is Werner… Read More

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back review — Short, tough guy eats fast food, punches people

October 25, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Edward Zwick | Written by Zwick, Richard Wenk, and Marshall Herskovitz, adapting the book by Lee Weeks | 118 min Tom Cruise returns to the role that never made much sense for him, but he can do what he wants, can't he? I argued that the first movie was entertaining with a sense… Read More

Me And Earl and the Dying Girl review — Quality teen cancer dramedy

June 24, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Written by Jesse Andrews adapting his own novel. It wouldn't be hard to be cynical about this movie. After the calculated-to-jerk-tears machinations of last year's teen cancer hit The Fault In Our Stars, having another teen cancer movie show up almost exactly 12 months later seems pretty frikkin' calculated, too. But trust me… Read More

The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) review

March 9, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki If this is to be Miyazaki's final film with Studio Ghibli—which, despite many false retirements, he says it will be—a romantic, historical drama about an engineer is an unorthodox subject matter to go out on. That said, it still has plenty of the fantastic and surreal whimsy he's become… Read More

Jack Reacher review

January 21, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie, adapting the Lee Child book, One Shot.A sad coincidence, I suppose, that I'm writing about Jack Reacher today, and earlier I heard of the death of Michael Winner, a British director who was responsible for a number of thrillers and action movies of the 1970s, movies Jack Reacher is directly… Read More

2012 Oscar reaction

February 28, 2012 flawintheiris

Well, what can you say about The Oscars? When they go with a new idea for hosting like Franco and Hathaway last year, they get shit on. When they go with the safe choice of Crystal, they get shit on. John Doyle in the Globe & Mail said this was the worst Oscars ever. I… Read More