Tag Archives: Carmen Ejogo

Roman J. Israel, Esq. review — Legal thriller pivots on faith

November 30, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Dan Gilroy | 129 min Gilroy the writer-director gave us the impressive Nightcrawler in 2014. Gilroy as just the screenwriter goes a lot further back than that—he was one of the scribes on the largely forgotten Mick Jagger science-fiction picture Freejack in the early '90s, with some interesting fare since then. Based… Read More

It Comes At Night review — Fighting the vague plague

June 15, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Trey Edward Shults | 91 min | On Demand It's rare, but every once in awhile a movie comes along that frustrates not because it's poorly made or awkwardly realized, but because it's thematically so bleak the film leaves you feeling pummelled. It Comes At Night is one of those films.… Read More

Alien: Covenant review — Mostly very familiar territory. Mostly.

May 21, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by John Logan, Dante Harper, Jack Paglen, and Michael Green | 122 min | Disney + The Alien series, which bloodily thrust its way into existence in 1979 with Ridley Scott's original, is very much its own genre—described narrowly as somewhere between a haunted house in space and a slasher movie… Read More

Born To Be Blue review — The thrill is gone

March 17, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Robert Budreau | 97 min. | ▲▲△△△ I've come to the end of my patience with the conventional musical biopic. It takes some directorial imagination to upend the cliches and do something fresh in the genre, as Bill Pohlad did last year with a dual narrative in the Brian Wilson picture Love & Mercy.… Read More

Selma review — History is alive, history is today

January 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Ava DuVernay, written by Paul Webb In the past few years one of the issues American Democrats and Republican parties have been disagreeing on is voter registration. Republican lawmakers in several states have been tightening up the rules around voting—requiring two picture IDs, reducing the days in the early voting period, denying same-day registration—to… Read More