Tag Archives: August Diehl

Munich: The Edge of War review — Tasteful-to-a-fault wartime spy drama

January 29, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Christian Schwochow | Written by Ben Power, based on a novel by Robert Harris | Netflix | ▲▲△△△ Here's a thriller so handsome, so well appointed, it's practically constipated. It's the kind of movie that's so dedicated to being an unabashed anachronism — so unlike anything resembling a film made in the past… Read More

The Last Vermeer review — Post-WWII thriller improves as it goes

November 19, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Dan Friedkin | Written by John Orloff aka James McGee, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby, based on The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez | 117 min | In Cinemas Dan Friedkin is a Texas billionaire, owner of a chain of car dealerships, with a sideline as a film producer. In The Last… Read More

A Hidden Life review — Beautiful to see, but distant

April 10, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Terrence Malick | 174 min | On Demand In 1939, in St Radegund, a remote mountain village in Austria, live Franz and Fani Jägerstätter (August Diehl and Valerie Pachner) and their kids. They're staunch Catholics who work off the land, the beautiful meadows and hills over which dark clouds form, providing… Read More

Reviews: Assassin, Copenhagen, Night Train To Lisbon, Son Of A Gun, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her

July 9, 2015 flawintheiris

And now for some recent releases on VOD, iTunes, Netflix, Blu-Ray and the like. Assassin A London hitman named Jamie (Danny Dyer) works for a pair of shady gangster brothers (Martin and Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet founders who were terrific as another pair of gangster brothers years back in The Krays). On his off hours… Read More