Tag Archives: Joe Wright

Cyrano review — Peter Dinklage and the tunes make this musical sing

March 1, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Wright | Written by Erica Schmidt, based on the play by Edmond Rostand | 123 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime My first introduction to Cyrano de Bergerac was in English by Steve Martin in the delightful Roxanne, and then in French just a few years later by Gérard Depardieu. Based on… Read More

A Rosamund Pike Primer: Redux

August 7, 2020 flawintheiris

Since I first wrote about Rosamund Pike, she has strongly avoided the Hollywood A-list, despite it being entirely available to her. Full marks, then, for her left-of centre choices since Gone Girl, in films like A United Kingdom, Hostiles, and especially A Private War. I look forward to her role as Marie Curie in Radioactive,… Read More

Darkest Hour review — Sterling, if unnecessary, historical drama

December 29, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Wright | Written by Anthony McCarten | 125 min It isn't the fault of the filmmakers that Darkest Hour is the third feature film to show up in cinemas this year—following Their Finest and the titanic Dunkirk—inspired by the same historical material, the rocky period in May 1940 when Britain was staring down the… Read More

Top 10 of 2011 (and other good times at the movies)

January 6, 2012 flawintheiris

Here's my list (early this year!), to add to the collection of other Best Of 2011 lists crowding the internet.My criteria: The film had to have been released in cinemas in 2011, even if it didn't open here in Halifax. For example, I did see a number of movies at the Atlantic Film Festival, such… Read More

Hanna review

April 8, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Wright Written by Seth Lochhead and David Farr Hanna is a lot of things. On the surface it's what the trailer says it is: Saoirse Ronan is the titular teen, raised since diapers to be a polyglot killer by her father, Erik (Eric Bana) in a shack in the snowbound wastes, hiding… Read More