In Cinemas: February 26, 2016 — MacBeth, Gods Of Egypt, Triple 9, Eddie The Eagle, Women Making Waves Conference… and the 2016 Oscars

February 25, 2016 flawintheiris

On Friday at Carbon Arc there are two screenings of Justin Kurzel's MacBeth, the new, dark, and violent take on Shakespeare's Scottish play, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. Advance tickets for the 7pm show are sold out with just 25 available at the door. There are plenty of tickets available for the 9:30pm show.…Read More

Lady In The Van review — Maggie Smith’s the Reason to See It

February 25, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Nicholas Hytner | Written by Alan Bennett | 104 min | ▲▲△△△ Bennett and Hytner, two veterans of the British stage, team up again as they did with The History Boys, bringing one of Bennett's plays to the big screen. "Mostly A True Story" we're told, with Alex Jennings as Bennett squared, playing two sides…Read More

LENS ME YOUR EARS Ep. 017 and 018 — Spectre/James Bond and Hitchcock/Truffaut

February 22, 2016 flawintheiris

Two of our best podcasts are available now! The first is Stephen Cooke's and my take on the most recent James Bond 007 film, Spectre, now available on VOD and DVD, as well as our five favourite James Bond films from the 53-year series. The second is our live conversation in the hour following the…Read More

In Cinemas: Friday, February 19, 2016 — Embrace Of The Serpent, The Witch, Lady In The Van, Touched With Fire, Race, Risen

February 19, 2016 flawintheiris

Carbon Arc is doing a single screening on Friday night of Embrace Of The Serpent, the Best Foreign Language Film contender from Colombia. We've heard great things about the film, and so have others given that advance tickets are sold out. There'll be handful available at the door, but get there early: Doors are at…Read More

Touched With Fire review — Polar Bared

February 18, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Paul Dalio | 110 min. | ▲▲▲△△ Carla (Katie Holmes) and Marco (Luke Kirby) meet while both are institutionalized for bipolar disorder. They spark, their visions of the world feed on each other, their mania increasing with their love. Out of the hospital, they continue their relationship, navigating the challenges of mental…Read More

The Witch review — Don’t Trust The Goat

February 18, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Robert Eggers | 92 min | On Demand A Puritan family—a couple and five children— is cast out from their New England community. They head into to the woods to start their own farm. Their youngest, a baby, vanishes while being cared for by the teenaged girl, Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), much…Read More

Deadpool review — The Mouth Makes It Work

February 16, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Tim Miller, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, based on a character created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△ Deadpool was a genuine novelty when he first showed up in comics. Wise-ass and self-aware with a big fourth-wall-breaking mouth, he's a comic book character who knows he's a…Read More

The Little Girl’s Only Friend

February 14, 2016 flawintheiris

I was born of ice. I'm a creation of wonder, a magical creature brought to life through the imagination of a little girl. My eyes are unseeing black coal, my nose a frozen vegetable, my arms dead twigs. But I live. And I am gifted. I raise my twig arms above my head and I…Read More

In Cinemas: Friday, February 12, 2016 — Heart Of A Dog, Five Cassavetes films, 45 Years, Deadpool, Zoolander 2, How To Be Single, Nina Forever

February 12, 2016 flawintheiris

At Carbon Arc on Friday night we're showing Heart Of A Dog, a documentary by iconoclast musician and artist Laurie Anderson, a meditation on death and the life of her dearly departed dog, Lolabelle. For more information, go here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v37BnyHefnY The Kazan Theatre Company is hosting a mini- John Cassavetes Film Festival this weekend, including…Read More

45 Years review — The chasm between the spoken and unspoken

February 11, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Andrew Haigh, written by Haigh adapting a short story by David Constantine | 95 min. | ▲▲▲▲△ We open long and wide on an English village. It holds for what feels like minutes, plenty of time to absorb details—the fields, the houses, a dog, running. It's the stillness that resonates. Stillness continues throughout this…Read More