Tag Archives: Felicity Jones

Train Dreams review — A gorgeous heartbreaker of a movie

November 23, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Clint Bentley | Written by Bentley and Greg Kwedar, based on a novella by Denis Johnson | 102 min | ▲▲▲▲ | Netflix Here's a stunner, another in Netflix's solid selection of films coming out this fall — we didn't get it in cinemas here, but now it's available on the streamer. It's… Read More

The Brutalist review — Visionary, flawed immigrant epic

January 25, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Brady Corbet | Written by Corbet and Mona Fastvold | 214 min | ▲▲▲1/2 Brady Corbet's work as an actor is familiar to me, it goes back a way, but as a writer-director the only picture of his I've watched was the Natalie Portman pop-star drama Vox Lux. This couldn't be more different.… Read More

The Midnight Sky review — Clooney’s sci-fi drama goes gently

December 26, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by George Clooney | Written by Mark L. Smith, adapting a book by Lily Brooks-Dalton | 118 min | Netflix "Barbeau Station." "February 2049." "Three weeks after the event." This is the on-screen text that follows astronomer Augustine (Clooney), whiskered, ailing, and distraught, to an empty cafeteria in the opening shots of George Clooney's… Read More

The Aeronauts review — Fair skies for airborne adventure

March 18, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom Harper | Written by Harper and Jack Thorne | 100 min | Amazon Prime It's 1864 London, and flamboyant balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) and meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) are aiming to go higher in the air than any human beings have before. The Theory Of Everything actors have an… Read More

Reviews: Vox Lux, On The Basis Of Sex, Bumblebee, Destination Wedding, The Mummy, Under The Silver Lake

May 1, 2019 flawintheiris

Vox Lux Brady Corbet's film is a strange animal, a drama about a pop star that's also a treatise on fame and the responsibility of art to inspire both violence and healing. Not all of its ideas work, but it deserves kudos for what it tries to do more than what it succeeds at. The… Read More

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story review — A mixed bag, but the high points are stratospheric

January 2, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Gareth Edwards | Written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy | 133 min As this review is arriving late—for reasons—I'm giving myself the license to be a little spoilery. I figure the hardcore fans will have seen the film already, likely more than once, and to those who have yet to take it… Read More

True Story review — Jonah and James’ theatre games

April 16, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Rupert Goold, Written by Goold and David Kajganich from the book by Michael Finkel Back in 2002, a New York Times Magazine writer named Mike Finkel got caught in a professional lie—he invented a character for a magazine cover story. Reeling from that career-killing event, he got a call about a guy named Christian… Read More

The Worricker Trilogy — Terrific spycraft for a rainy day

December 14, 2014 flawintheiris

A series of features made for British television, these are now available on Blu-Ray and online. Pravda playwright and The Reader screenwriter David Hare is a legend in British theatre circles. He's written and directed a bit of a John le Carré-style British spy classic in Page Eight. Made for the BBC, it was released here in 2011 and now… Read More

The Theory of Everything review — A handsome, moving biopic

November 29, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by James Marsh, written by Anthony McCarten, adapting the book by Jane Hawking Odd confluence trivia of the season: The science advisor for Interstellar, Kip Thorne, is a character in The Theory of Everything, played by Enzo Cilenti. He's the guy who gets the Penthouse magazine subscription with Stephen. To bad 70s mens magazines… Read More