Tag Archives: Joel Fry

Cruella review — The de Vil Wears Puppies, or Does She?

May 26, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Craig Gillespie | Screenplay by Dana Fox and Tony McNamara, Story by Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel, and Steve Zissis, based on a novel by Dodie Smith | 134 min | Disney Plus Premium Disney's two-pronged strategy for new feature films — cannibalizing their classic catalogue — has been wildly successful. There's no… Read More

In The Earth review — Amputation, rituals, and other weirdness

April 19, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ben Wheatley | 100 min | Crave Ben Wheatley loves a good push-in. That's when the camera moves in on, usually, an inanimate object or, uh, shrubbery, paired with a drone- or trance-like score. It's a horror-movie cliche, but he doesn't mind. I should probably go on the record as not… Read More

Yesterday review — Too many bum notes spoil the song

June 28, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Danny Boyle | Written by Richard Curtis and Jack Barth | 116 min | Crave Plus In the current spree of musical biopics like Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, and whatever Mamma Mia is, Yesterday arrives with a genuinely clever premise, stoked by a lot of excitement around one of the best trailers in years:… Read More