Tag Archives: Anya Taylor-Joy

The Gorge review — Two hours of your life falls into split in the earth

February 16, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Derrickson | Written by Zach Dean | 127 min | ▲1/2 | Apple TV+ Back when I used to work in film production in Toronto in the 1990s — and this was before X-Men and Good Will Hunting made the city a legitimate hub for quality features — a producer I used… Read More

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review — A detour off Fury Road

May 24, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by George Miller | Written by Miller and Nick Lathouris | 148 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix I made time this week to rewatch Mad Max: Fury Road, one of the few films I've seen in the 21st Century that announced itself from the start as a stone cold classic. There just wasn't any… Read More

Dune: Part Two review — The rise of Muad’dib

February 26, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Denis Villeneuve | Written by Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel by Frank Herbert | 168 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix After a painful delay for this much anticipated blockbuster sequel — just as the first one was delayed — it's here. In many respects it delivers on the promise of… Read More

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 | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave, Disney+ 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… 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 | Netflix 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