Tag Archives: Dougray Scott

A Cult Of One: Ripley’s Game

April 9, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Liliana Cavani | Written by Cavani, Charles McKeown, from the Patricia Highsmith novel | 110 min | VOD, Digital, and Hoopla This is a semi-regular segment on FITI where I shine a light on a feature distinctly unloved, or underloved, which for one reason or another deserves reappraisal. I was reminded of Ripley's… Read More

Reviews: London Town, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Calvary, London Has Fallen

February 4, 2017 flawintheiris

London Town Directed by Derrick Borte | Written by Matt Brown, based on the screenplay Untitled Joe Strummer Project by Sonya Gildea and Kirsten Sheridan | 92 min | iTunes and VOD Shay Baker (Daniel Huttlestone) is a 14-year-old living in '70s Wanstead, an East London suburb. Dad Nick (Dougray Scott) moves pianos for a… Read More

Mission: Impossible series review

July 28, 2015 flawintheiris

My mother loved the 1960s TV series, created by Bruce Gellar. I remember that much about it, and that it starred, at one time or another, Leonard Nimoy, Sam Elliot, Greg Morris, Barbara Bain and Martin Landau—who I knew better as a kid from Space: 1999—and Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, the guy calling the… Read More

Taken 1, 2, and 3 review — Liam Neeson’s special skills and bad parenting

January 15, 2015 flawintheiris

Taken (2008) Directed by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen "You live in your little bubble here with your maids and your servants!" It's like Liam Neeson's Bryan Mills is admonishing all of America when he tries to tell his ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Janssen), that she and their 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie… Read More