Tag Archives: Jim Broadbent

Six Minutes To Midnight review — Clunky wartime drama never takes flight

March 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Andy Goddard | Written by Goddard, Eddie Izzard, and Celyn Jones | 99 min | Crave Plus Fans of Eddie Izzard, Judi Dench, or relentlessly middlebrow wartime dramas will likely find this picture hard to resist, but I'd wager they'll also find it a bit of a disappointment. Despite a lot of compelling… Read More

King of Thieves review — Real-life seniors heist should be more fun

April 1, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by James Marsh | Written by Joe Penhall, based on an article by Mark Seal | 108 min | Amazon Prime Pretty quick turnaround on this true-life heist story: It was Easter 2015 when a group of bank robbers broke into a London safe deposit company through an elevator shaft. They drilled through the… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

Top 10 of 1999

March 19, 2019 flawintheiris

20 years ago, Hollywood had a great 12 months. Maybe it was pre-millennial tension, or just a confluence of great talent and risk-taking producers and studios, but it was a moment that wasn't to be repeated in the years following. I enjoy putting together lists of the best films from years gone by, and the… 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 | Crave, Hoopla 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… Read More

Brooklyn review — Romance in the diaspora

December 10, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by John Crowley | Written by Nick Hornby, adapting a Colm Toibin novel | 111 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave Saoirse Ronan is on point as Ellis, the young woman who in John Crowley's 1950's-set diasporic drama travels from rural Ireland to Brooklyn, New York for a new life, and inevitably, first love. This… Read More

Paddington review — A sweet treat about a travelling bear

January 25, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Paul King, written by King and Hamish McColl, from the Michael Bond character I don't see a lot of movies aimed for a very young audience, unless you count the regular Pixar output, but I'd heard good things about this adaptation of the popular British children's books, which I knew a little of,… Read More

Cloud Atlas review

November 4, 2012 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, from the David Mitchell novel I should confess right off the top that I haven't read the book, so am coming to this film fairly blank slate. But I was impressed by the achievement here, which maybe I shouldn't be given the pedigree of… Read More