Tag Archives: Alicia Vikander

Rumours review — Amusing, goofy, and peculiar political satire

October 17, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, and Guy Maddin | Written by Evan Johnson | 103 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave There's something delightful about the fact this movie even exists — a satire about the deeply self-centred nature of human beings, even and especially their elected leaders, and how good they are at ignoring… Read More

Beckett review — Greece-set thriller holds its own (until the end)

August 25, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino | Written by Filomarino and Kevin A. Rice | 110 min | Netflix Alfred Hitchock really loved thrillers where an ordinary man stumbles into a dark, extraordinary plot where everything's out of his control. The format got a lot of play in the 1970s, too. Beckett is a real throwback… Read More

The Green Knight review — Beautiful to see, but stolid

July 31, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed and Written by David Lowery | 130 min | Amazon Prime Count on the American indie studio A24 to deliver a counter-programming punch to the summer movie slate, a psychedelic adaptation of the ancient poem Sir Gawain and The Green Knight from the filmmaker responsible for the unaccountably overrated A Ghost Story. Lowery also gave… Read More

The Glorias review — Sprawling Steinem biopic shines and sputters

June 16, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Julie Taymor | Written by Taymor with Sarah Ruhl, based on the book My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem | 147 min | Amazon Prime Somehow this biography of American journalist and feminist leader Gloria Steinem got next to no visibility on release. It may have been a pandemic casualty, dropped… Read More

Earthquake Bird review — Vikander is reason enough to watch Japan-set thriller

April 7, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Wash Westmoreland | Written by Westmoreland from the novel by Susanna Jones | 107 min | Netflix A character study wrapped up in a murder mystery, Earthquake Bird sings an odd, occasionally awkward song, but it's never less than compelling, sustained by a flawless performance by Oscar-winning Swede, Alicia Vikander. She's the curiously… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: December 2018

December 19, 2018 flawintheiris

Roma One could make an argument last year's Mudbound was the feature that signalled Netlfix's prestige drama interest, readying their horses for the annual Oscar race. Roma is really the tipping point, a film with the critical momentum to suggest it could actually take the Best Picture statuette. I'd be surprised, simply because it's much… Read More

#FIN2018 reviews — Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, Hopeless Romantic, Halloween Party

September 15, 2018 flawintheiris

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch It's been something, watching Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky meld their visual storytelling from Manufactured Landscapes (2006) to Watermark (2013) to this, completing the trilogy with cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier, an observation of the sublime beauty and horror of human industry. This final film is simply about the nightmare of there being… Read More

Tomb Raider review — Remarkably entertaining video-game adaptation

March 25, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Roar Uthaug | Written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Alastair Siddons, and Evan Daugherty | 118 min I can barely recall the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies. What I do remember is Jolie's Lara Croft was a largely personality-free automaton who looked great kicking ass. Was it a pre-007 Daniel Craig's ass she kicked? Maybe.… 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: April 2017

April 24, 2017 flawintheiris

Here's 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.) For me, Netflix is a go-to usually to watch films I’ve already seen or to give the odd TV… Read More