Tag Archives: Lily Collins

Windfall review — Desert-set noir delivers lean, effective story

April 30, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Charlie McDowell | written by McDowell, Jason Segal and Justin Lader | 92 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix Here’s a film from the director of The One I Love, an indie science fiction picture from a few years back that I really liked. Like the earlier picture this one's set in a luxurious… Read More

Mank review — Fincher’s ode to Old Hollywood is clever, good-looking, and self-aware

November 23, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by David Fincher | Written by Jack Fincher | 131 min | In Cinemas, on Netflix from December 4, 2020 On the face of it, this is an unlikely pairing of filmmaker and subject: The master of the modern, chilly thriller, David Fincher, making a movie about the writing of the Oscar-winning script for… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: Summer 2019

July 23, 2019 flawintheiris

To The Bone The first feature directed by Marti Noxon, whose name I’ve always associated with Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She also worked on Sharp Objects, the noirish HBO drama with Amy Adams who played a character with an addiction to self-harm. To The Bone is about Ellen (Lily Collins). She's 20 and anorexic, or… Read More

Tolkien review — Precious and predictable, but fine in places

May 16, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Dome Karukoski | Written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford | 112 min | Crave Plus The cliches of the legendary author biopic start and end with the ways in which their personal life inspire—mirror, echo—their work. So, if a filmmaker wanted to do the utterly predictable thing, a film about JRR Tolkien… Read More

New on Canadian Netflix: August/September 2017

September 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to-solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) Death Note (2017) I was a big fan of Adam Wingard's The Guest (found elsewhere on this month's list), bit… Read More

New On Canadian Netflix: June/July 2017

July 24, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to- solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) *One note: In May I recommended Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, a film when I first saw it back… Read More