Tag Archives: Eddie Marsan

Back To Black review — Cracked portrait of toxic love

May 17, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson | Written by Matt Greenhalgh | 122 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix That Queen musical drama, Bohemian Rhapsody, has a lot to answer for. A big box office hit and an Oscar winner(!), it's spawned a host of other musical biopics — a few OK but many mediocre, or worse. Some, like… Read More

Fair Play review — A bloody portrait of power, ego and sex

October 10, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Chloe Domont | 113 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix Fair Play is an adrenalized New York picture the likes of which we haven't seen in awhile. It's got the bones of something like Margin Call, set in that world, but it's entirely its own beast — making its own inquiries and… Read More

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre review — Fizzy action cocktail, hold the caring

April 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Guy Ritchie | Written by Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies | 114 min | ▲▲△△△ | Amazon Prime The painful and much postponed journey of this action comedy from bad boy Brit director Guy Ritchie to the (small) screen might make for a more entertaining picture than this one. Apparently, this awkwardly… Read More

The Gentlemen review — Guy Ritchie returns to his comfort zone

January 30, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Guy Ritchie | 103 min When a filmmaker tills a familiar patch of ground, it's easy to take their efforts for granted, and, even more so, criticize when they take detours off that property. British auteur Guy Ritchie made his name with the gangster movie—Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch,… Read More

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

March 25, 2018 flawintheiris

The Limehouse Golem review — Gory and gothic murder mystery

October 12, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Juan Carlos Medina | Written by Jane Goldman, adapting a novel by Peter Ackroyd | 109 min Victorian London. There's a serial killer about. It's not Bloody Jack, but someone just as twisted and vicious, fond of ending the lives of the poorest denizens of East London with a blade. Enter John Kildare (Bill… Read More

Atomic Blonde review — Satisfying in the punch, less so the spycraft

July 30, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by David Leitch | Written by Kurt Johnstad, based on the graphic novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart | 115 min A plausible spy thriller is tough to pull off—the plot and characters have to snap together lock tight and surprise in stages. Action movies are a little simpler provided… Read More

The World’s End review

September 12, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Simon Pegg | 109 min | On Demand You nerds know this: The World's End is the third and final film in Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, all made with buddies Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The thematic thread is pretty thin, but basically these three British guys… Read More