Tag Archives: Bill Camp

Passing review — Powerful performances in nuanced racial drama

November 15, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Rebecca Hall, with Hall adapting the novel by Nella Larsen | 98 min | Netflix The first feature by actor-turned director Rebecca Hall reportedly speaks to something in Hall's own experience, a family member who had hidden their ethnicity. The passing in this case is the story of a Black woman passing as… Read More

Dark Waters review — A bleakly devastating case of corporate evil

December 10, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Todd Haynes | Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Mario Correa, based on the New Yorker article by Nathaniel Rich | 126 min | Crave Plus Without overstating it, if you had any doubt previously about whether large corporate entities like the American chemical giant DuPont are machines that destroy peoples' lives, this film… 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

Red Sparrow review — Jennifer Lawrence is much better than the film she’s in

March 2, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Francis Lawrence | Written by Justin Haythe, adapting the novel by Jason Matthews | 139 min There's something uncanny about the stride of Charlotte Rampling. In this film she's the Matron, the head instructor at Sparrow School, the secret camp where Russia trains its hardest, deadliest spies. Maybe it's her boots that make… Read More

Love & Mercy review — Excellent vibrations

June 10, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Bill Pohlad, written by Oren Moverman and Michael A. Lerner, based on the life of Brian Wilson. Coming soon on my podcast, Lens Me Your Ears, with Stephen Cooke, is an episode on musical biopics. My arm needed a little twisting on this subject because biopics in general aren't my favourite genre—I always ask… Read More