Tag Archives: Gemma Jones

Emily review — Brontë biopic unpacks gothic myth

March 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Frances O'Connor | 130 min | ▲▲▲△△ A fresh literary biopic has washed up on our cinematic shores, and I confess walking into the screening room I wasn't altogether excited about it. The conceit that something essential about the canon of classic lit can be gleaned by watching a fictionalization of… Read More

Ammonite review — Lesbian love story worth seeing for the performances

November 16, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Frances Lee | 120 min | Netflix Francis Lee’s follow-up to God’s Own Country is a period drama set on a surf-swept shore featuring a romance between two women, but don’t let any surface similarity to Portrait Of A Lady On Fire lead you on. The tone here, of muted English… Read More

Rocketman review — Better than the Freddie movie, but not by much

June 2, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Dexter Fletcher | Written by Lee Hall | 121 min | Netflix Here's the thing: All this Elton John musical biopic needed was to improve on Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury picture that wound up an unexpected global hit and Oscar-winner. Rocketman is better by about a nose. The one way it distinguishes itself is with… Read More

#AIFF2017 Day 5: Lucky, Small Town Crime, and God’s Own Country

September 19, 2017 flawintheiris

Lucky The death of Harry Dean Stanton barely 72 hours ago made Monday afternoon's screening of his final starring role that much more poignant, and even more so because the film is an old man's rumination on life and his own mortality. It reminded me a little of Paterson, without the poetry or twin iconography,… Read More

Bridget Jones’s Baby review — Stale third outing from the famed singleton

October 18, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Sharon Maguire | Written by Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, and Emma Thompson, based on the book by Fielding | 123 min | Netflix Hugh Grant never gets much credit. The British actor's role as Daniel Cleaver, the quintessential dashing British cad, was an essential spice adding flavour to the first two Bridget Jones films.… Read More