Tag Archives: Peter Sarsgaard

Memory review — Chastain and Sarsgaard are unforgettable

January 26, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Michel Franco | 99 min | ▲▲▲▲△ A story about two fragile people hanging on to each other for dear life, Memory is an intense, discomfiting drama. As a showcase for its performers it's never less than impressive. Those performers are Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard. Chastain is Sylvia, a social… Read More

The Batman review — The darkest knight of them all

March 3, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Reeves | Written by Reeves and Peter Craig | 175 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave On the way out of the cinema, I heard a fellow punter say, "Batman was so emo!" In response, her friend said, "Batman's been emo since 1939!" I'm in the sweet spot for this material having read… Read More

The Lost Daughter review — Maggie Gyllenhaal wows out of the gate

January 3, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante | 121 min | Netflix | ▲▲▲▲△ About 20 minutes into Maggie Gyllenhaal's debut as a feature filmmaker I was starting to wonder when the film would start. The film feels like an almost plotless travelogue about an academic, Leda (Olivia Colman)… Read More

The Guilty (2021) review — A passable, if inessential, remake

September 28, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine Fuqua | Written by Nic Pizzolatto, based on the original screenplay by Gustav Möller and Emil Nygaard Albertsen | 90 min | Netflix I've read that Jake Gyllenhaal was a big fan of the Danish original, and so given the chance to remake it brought Training Day filmmaker Antoine Fuqua on board.… Read More

A Rosamund Pike Primer: Redux

August 7, 2020 flawintheiris

Since I first wrote about Rosamund Pike, she has strongly avoided the Hollywood A-list, despite it being entirely available to her. Full marks, then, for her left-of centre choices since Gone Girl, in films like A United Kingdom, Hostiles, and especially A Private War. I look forward to her role as Marie Curie in Radioactive,… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 10 — A few more very good movies

October 7, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 2019 flawintheiris

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 5 — Stinkers

August 5, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I've been doing here on FITI since 2010. I still have a… Read More

Jackie review — A psychological portrait of power denuded

February 2, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Pablo Larrain | Written by Noah Oppenheim | 100 min | Crave Plus In 2016 we saw two other terrific films from this Chilean director, The Club and Neruda. This one is the third keeping the streak of quality alive, arriving here in Halifax a little late with a very much-deserved Academy Award nomination… Read More

The Magnificent Seven (2016) review — Old and young guns shoot straight enough in western remake

October 2, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine Fuqua | Written by Richard Wenk and Nic Pizzolato, based on the screenplays for The Magnificent Seven (1960) by William Roberts and The Seven Samurai (1954) by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni | 133 min A remake of a remake of a remake, this newest tale of hired guns helping out a village… Read More