Tag Archives: Daniel Brühl

Eden review — Paradise found and lost

October 26, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Ron Howard | Written by Howard and Noah Pink | 129 min | ▲▲▲ | On Prime An earlier version of this review appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival 2024. It's taken awhile for Ron Howard's survivalist melodrama (written by Haligonian Noah Pink, who also did Tetris) to arrive after it premiered… Read More

All Quiet On The Western Front (2022) review — Fresh reminder that war is hell

February 6, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Edward Berger | Written by Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque | 148 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix I'm familiar with the 1930 original adaptation of the novel, which was released as a silent but also, later, in a sound version, and then the 1979 CBS… Read More

Raid On Entebbe (1977) and 7 Days In Entebbe reviews — Real-life hijack thrillers span generations

March 25, 2018 flawintheiris

The Cloverfield Paradox review — Space nonsense elevated by key performers

February 14, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Julius Onah | Written by Oren Uziel and Doug Jung | 102 min | Netflix The Cloverfield franchise is much more likely to be remembered for its unorthodox marketing than its contribution to the horror or sci-fi genres. The first one showed up as a so-so monster mocumentary that hid its money shots.… Read More

Alone in Berlin review — Sincere but clunky wartime melodrama

December 12, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Vincent Perez | Written by Perez, Achim von Borries and Bettine von Borries, adapting a novel by Hans Fallada | 103 min | on iTunes A sentimental concoction where the serious talent of the pair in front of the camera can't quite overcome the deep cliches of those who have made decisions behind… Read More

The Zookeeper’s Wife review — A well-meaning but fundamentally flawed Holocaust drama

March 30, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Niki Caro | Written by Angela Workman adapting the book by Diane Ackerman | 124 min The true story of Antonina and Jan Żabiński, a Polish couple who ran the Warsaw Zoo during World War II. When the Nazis marched into Poland the soldiers ransacked the zoo, exporting some of the animals to… Read More

New On Canadian Netflix: March 2017

March 20, 2017 flawintheiris

In an effort to keep up to date with films now available on platforms aside from the big screen, I had a look at the past few weeks of new releases on Canadian Netflix and I’ve got a few films for you to consider when you're looking to chill. (You can click on the movie… Read More

Captain America: Civil War review — More superheroes than you can shake a webhead at

May 6, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo | Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely | 146 min | ▲▲▲▲△ It's hard to believe, but since Iron Man in 2008, we've had a dozen Marvel movies. Captain America: Civil War is the lucky 13th. It's not my favourite of the bunch, but it ranks high for a… Read More

Burnt review — There’s Sizzle in this Steak

October 28, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by John Wells | Written by Steven Knight, from a story by Michael Kalesniko | 100 min There was a time when Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) was a hotshot chef in a high end Paris restaurant, but he lost it all to his attitude and addictions. After more than two years of detox and… Read More

Rush review

October 8, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Ron HowardWritten by Peter MorganThere aren't a lot of great motor racing movies. Um, scratch that. There aren't any. Grand Prix? It's over-long and hasn't aged well. Le Mans? Other than Steve McQueen, it doesn't have much to recommend it. Days of Thunder? They tried to redo Top Gun in NASCAR and the best… Read More