Tag Archives: Connie Britton

Promising Young Woman review — Righteous retribution, served hot

January 17, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Emerald Fennell | 113 min | Netflix Cassie (Carey Mulligan) works at a coffee shop and lives with her parents, Susan and Stanley (Jennifer Coolidge and Clancy Brown). She's just turning 30, though she's not really paying attention to those kinds of milestones. She used to be a medical student. Not… Read More

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women — Wonder Woman’s secret history

October 16, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Angela Robinson | 108 min William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans) was the creator of Wonder Woman, though this film about his life largely features the origin of his controversial Amazonian superhero as a third-act coda. The real story here is his polyamorous relationship with his wife, Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), and a student,… Read More

American Ultra review — A spy-action-stoner mash-up

August 22, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Nima Nourizadeh, written by Max Landis Sometimes when you bring together two disparate influences in an odd little brew you get something fresh. For the most part, that's what's happened here. It's clumsy in places, but it entertains as the world's first stoner comedy/action thriller. American Ultra is being marketed on its action comedy… Read More

Me And Earl and the Dying Girl review — Quality teen cancer dramedy

June 24, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Written by Jesse Andrews adapting his own novel. It wouldn't be hard to be cynical about this movie. After the calculated-to-jerk-tears machinations of last year's teen cancer hit The Fault In Our Stars, having another teen cancer movie show up almost exactly 12 months later seems pretty frikkin' calculated, too. But trust me… Read More

The To Do List review

August 21, 2013 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Maggie CareyOh, the damage to my own innocence from having given up 100 minutes of my life with Tom Cruise and Shelley Long in 1983's Losin' It. The movie belonged to a genre of teen comedy that has very happily gone the way of the dodo: the devirginizing romp. Oh, it still comes… Read More

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World review

October 9, 2012 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Lorene ScafariaThis is just out on DVD, a film I missed this summer in the din of the blockbuster season.It's Scafaria's first feature, having written the delightful Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, one of the few teen comedies of recent years to come anywhere near the quality of the John Hughes… Read More