Tag Archives: Zak Penn

Free Guy review — Fluffy good times with Ryan Reynolds

August 23, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Shawn Levy | Written by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn | 115 min | In Cinemas Free Guy is a mild and pleasant surprise. Like so many modern blockbusters, it's imbued with the DNA of a bunch of other, better movies, but it still manages to distinguish itself by being both a big-budget… Read More

X-Men Original Trilogy review

June 5, 2019 flawintheiris

Dark Phoenix will be released on Friday. I recall reading the studio was planning three films to tell the story of Jean Grey's transformation into the cosmic power of Phoenix, an operatic tale of good and evil—previously attempted in the third X-Men film, X-Men: The Last Stand—but I guess those plans were kiboshed when 20th Century Fox… Read More

Ready Player One review — Greatest Hits of the ’80s

March 29, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Spielberg | Written by Ernest Cline and Zak Penn, based on Cline's novel | 140 min I never finished the book and thought the trailers looked awful. That poster with the guy and the super-long-leg was terrible. Ready Player One arrives with not a lot of good buzz and, accordingly, no one… Read More