Tag Archives: Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Fall review — The high anxiety of careless climbers

August 13, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Mann | Written by Mann and Jonathan Frank | 107 min | ▲▲▲△△ You gotta give credit to these filmmakers for the wonderfully simple conceit — stick your two characters on the top of a 2000 ft tower in the Mojave where the rail ladder has given way, and let them spend… Read More

Rampage review — Big dumb fun with monsters amok

April 16, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Brad Peyton | Written by Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal, and Adam Sztykiel | 107 min If there was any doubt at before now, it should be clear today: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is this generation's Arnold Schwarzenegger. He moves effortlessly from comedy to family fare to action movies without breaking… Read More

Reviews: Anthropoid, Solace, Tumbledown, A War, The Dressmaker

January 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Anthropoid Directed by Sean Ellis | Written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin | 120 min | On Netflix 1942, Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Two Czech expatriot soldiers Jan (Jamie Dornan) and Josef (Cillian Murphy) parachute into the countryside outside Prague. Their mission: To manage dialogue in painful Czech-accented English and be terribly good-looking in period costume, connect… Read More

Reviews: Mississippi Grind, Heist, Kilo Two Bravo

December 7, 2015 flawintheiris

Recent releases available on VOD and Blu-Ray that didn't screen in Halifax cinemas. Mississippi Grind Written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△ Ben Mendelsohn is Gerry, a scruffy, hard-up gambler in Iowa who "owes money to everyone." On one of his losing streaks he connects with Curtis (Ryan Reynolds),… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2014: Day Seven, with Mr Turner and a Danish Western!

September 18, 2014 flawintheiris

As much as I'd like to think I have a sense of the hottest movies to see at the AFF, I always miss something stellar. For example, a reliable source told me that Xavier Dolan's Mommy, which screened on Saturday night while I was having dinner with a friend from out of town, was one of the… Read More