Tag Archives: Elle Fanning

I Think We’re Alone Now review — World’s end, feeling fine.

August 30, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Reed Morano | Written by Mike Makowsky | 99 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime, VOD Let's talk about the director of this feature for a second because she's had a fascinating journey to feature filmmaking. She comes from years as a cinematographer — you'd think more camera wizards would become filmmakers, but… Read More

#AIFF2017 Day 6: Loving Vincent, How To Talk To Girls At Parties

September 20, 2017 flawintheiris

Loving Vincent An animated film that boasts (in its opening crawl) 100 artists hand-painted the thing. I'm not sure what the point is knowing that up front unless to direct viewers to the visuals rather than the somewhat less impressive script. Loving Vincent uses a mix of actors on sets, rotoscopic animation, and CGI to create… Read More

#AIFF2017 Day 2: The Child Remains, Mary Shelley, plus The Crescent

September 16, 2017 flawintheiris

The comfortably full Cinema 8 at Park Lane was the site of the gala premiere of Michael Melski's The Child Remains, his long-gestating supernatural thriller, on Friday evening. It was clearly an emotional event for the writer-director, and he had many kind things to say about his crew and cast. Unfortunately, we also had to put… Read More

The Beguiled (2017 and 1971) review — Gothic western seduces across generations

July 4, 2017 flawintheiris

2017: Written and directed by Sofia Coppola, from the book by Thomas Cullinan and the 1971 screenplay by Albert Maltz and Irene Kamp | 93 min 1971: Directed by Don Siegel, written by Albert Maltz and Irene Kamp | 105 min I've not read the novel, but the two features adapted from this Civil War gothic… Read More

The Neon Demon review — Weird Couture

June 25, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn | Written by Refn, Mary Laws, and Polly Stenham | 117 min | ▲▲▲▲△ This one upset some folks at Cannes, and it's easy to see why. Promoted as a horror, it's no more a horror than Under The Skin was. There are moments of gore late in the running, and… Read More

Trumbo review — Blacklist blues

December 23, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Jay Roach | Written by John McNamara, adapting a book by Bruce Cook | 124 min | ▲▲▲△△ One thing you can count on: Hollywood's interest in itself never flags. In this case, the interest is reasonably warranted: 25 years in the life of Dalton Trumbo, an esteemed screenwriter who had the poor fortune… Read More

Super 8 review

June 19, 2011 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by JJ AbramsAs I was stretching my legs after the conclusion of Super 8, along with some of the end credits, the audience gets to see an edited version of the Super 8 film our young heroes are shooting through the duration of the movie we've been watching. It's really sweet and… Read More