Tag Archives: Jon Bernthal

King Richard review — Authorized sports picture tells inspirational story

December 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green | Written by Zach Baylin | 144 min | In Cinemas Full credit to broadcaster, writer, and filmmaker Tara Thorne for pointing this out on social media: They finally get around to making a biopic of two of the greatest athletes we've seen in our lifetimes, Venus and Serena Williams,… Read More

Ford v Ferrari review — Car racing picture tight in the turns

November 22, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by James Mangold | Written by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, and Jason Keller | 152 min | Crave Plus This movie is called Le Mans 66 in the UK, which has something to do with copyright and something to do with the Brits familiarity with the history of motor racing. I gotta be honest,… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix — February 2019

February 6, 2019 flawintheiris

Velvet Buzzsaw A deliciously trashy art world satire/horror from Dan Gilroy, the filmmaker behind Nightcrawler and Roman J. Israel. , a picture with a lot more of the edge and unease of the former rather than the prestige aspirations of the latter. It tells the story of a shallow, ambitious, group of nasties; the delightfully named Morf Vandewalt (another… Read More

Widows review — McQueen’s art house crime drama thrills and spills

November 16, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Steve McQueen | Written by McQueen and Gillian Flynn, from a book by Lynda La Plante | 129 min | Netflix We're in good hands from the start. In the opening scenes the film jumps between the bedroom intimacies of couple Veronica and Harry Rawlings (Viola Davis and Liam Neeson) and Harry's life… Read More

#AIFF2017 Day 3: The Square, Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, Sweet Virginia

September 17, 2017 flawintheiris

I tend to be impressed by film doing a single thing well and managing to do that one good thing through its running time. Ruben Östlund's Palme d'or-winning The Square manages to be good at doing many things simultaneously, to the point where it's hard to collect all those things in your head at once. I… Read More

Wind River review — Powerful, if somewhat problematic thriller

August 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Taylor Sheridan | 107 min Sheridan has elevated his career from jobbing Hollywood actor to A-list auteur with Wind River. This is his first film as writer-director, and while it's not quite to the standard of his last two screenplays directed by others—Sicario and Hell Or High Water—it's a dark and compelling… Read More

Baby Driver review — Wheelman can’t drive 55

June 30, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Edgar Wright | 113 min It feels like Brits want Edgar Wright to be their own personal Tarantino, the pop-culture obsessed filmmaker who will absorb all those Hollywood influences and create perfect, post-modern genre films for the 21st Century. He succeeded the first time out of the gate with Shaun Of The… Read More

The Accountant review — Buff Affleck Audits, Assassinates in Flawed Thriller

October 30, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Gavin O'Connor | Written by Bill Dubuque | 128 min A thriller for adults overstuffed with ideas is always better than one bereft and predictable. For that reason alone, The Accountant might be worth your time. It's also preposterous, maybe even borderline offensive, but manages to deliver on action beats even while a… Read More

Fury review — Blood, mud, and tanks

October 18, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by David Ayer Ayer is what I call a macho director. I bet he's seen every single one of Sam Peckinpah's movies. He wrote U-571 , The Fast & The Furious, and Training Day, he wrote and directed End of Watch and Sabotage. He knows about guys, guns, and sweat, and that's what… Read More