Tag Archives: Anya Taylor-Joy

The Menu review — A tasty meal, not terribly filling

November 23, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Mark Mylod | Written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy | 107 min | ▲▲▲△△ Having gone to a food analogy for the headline, I'll try to exercise a little restraint for the rest of this review. The Menu is a new comedy thriller about a group of diners who pay for an… Read More

Amsterdam review — An interesting mess, but a mess nonetheless

October 17, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David O Russell | 134 min | ▲▲▲△△ This is the return of the deeply problematic, reportedly toxic filmmaker David O Russell to the Prestige Alley — that time between October and the end of the year when most of Hollywood's Oscar-bait features arrive in cinemas and jostle for garlands and… Read More

Furiosa goes to camera (starring Anya Taylor-Joy)

June 23, 2022 flawintheiris

I don't usually write about the start of production of forthcoming films... hell, I barely bother mentioning new trailers for movies because social media does that so well why go to the trouble? But given Mad Max: Fury Road was one of the greatest movies of the past 10 years, I wanted to flag, with… Read More

The Northman review — Rage, religion, and po-faced myth

April 29, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Eggers | Written by Eggers and Sjón | 137 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave Welcome to another bleak, violent historical tale from American auteur Robert Eggers, with plenty of his now well-established horror-tinged weirdness — lots of dolly-ins and characters staring into our souls — but all at a much bigger scale.… Read More

Last Night in Soho review — Visions of hell on Wardour Street

October 29, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns | 116 min | Crave Edgar Wright feels like a peer, a media nerd who loves him some movies. The movies he makes are more than informed by his passion and knowledge of all the movies he's watched, they're enraptured by them. He and… Read More

#FIN2020 Review — Radioactive

September 19, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Marjane Satrapi | Written by Jack Thorne, adapting a book by Lauren Redniss | 109 min I don’t know what it is about biopics. I’m always attracted to them, but almost never satisfied by the experience. It's a genre that reveals celebrated, fascinating personalities but tends to conventional, predictable storytelling. The good news… Read More

The New Mutants review — X-Men spin-off better than the buzz

September 2, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Josh Boone | Written by Boone and Knate Lee, based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont, Bob McLeod, and Bill Sienkiewicz | 94 min I can't remember the last summer superhero movie to arrive with so little positive hype. The New Mutants was originally to have debuted in cinemas in April 2018,… Read More

Emma. review — Jane Austen romcom refreshed in 2020 edition

March 9, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Autumn de Wilde | Written by Eleanor Catton, based on the novel by Jane Austen | 124 min | Netflix and On Demand The period, or "full stop" as they say in the UK, in the title is intentional, apparently. My best guess is it's there to remind us of the movie's literary… Read More

Glass review — Ambitious superhero movie reflects, breaks

January 18, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | 129 min | Netflix This is a deeply unlikely picture, stitching together the filmmaker's Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2017) in an amalgam that goes off in directions that stretch credulity, while still delivering enough of Shyamalan's ambition and gift for fantasy cinema storytelling to make it worthwhile.… Read More

Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2017) reviews — Filmmaker connects his films across two decades

January 17, 2019 flawintheiris

With the sequel Glass opening on Friday, January 18, I thought it worthwhile to rewatch its predecessors. My review of Split is a light rewriting of the original from February, 2017. Unbreakable | Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | 106 min | (2000) Shyamalan is one of the few directors working who has a brand,… Read More