Tag Archives: Jonathan Pryce

All The Old Knives review — Romantic spy thriller goes to dark places

April 18, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Janus Metz | Written by Olen Steinhauer, based on his novel | 101 min | ▲▲▲△△| Amazon Prime Here's a thriller freighted with regret. Two former lovers, Henry (Chris Pine) and Celia (Thandiwe Newton), meet in Carmel, California, at a seaside resto. Eight years earlier, in 2012, they were part of a CIA… Read More

Now On Canadian Netflix: January 2020

January 18, 2020 flawintheiris

The Two Popes On the face of it, this strikes me as strange material for Fernando Meirelles to approach. The Brazilian filmmaker responsible for City Of God and The Constant Gardener is a visionary of colour and kinetics, of movement. Why would he choose to tell the story of two senior citizens having a conversation, his… Read More

The Wife review — Strong moments in a muddled movie

September 26, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Björn Runge | Written by Jane Anderson, based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer | 100 min Joe Castleman is a legendary American man of letters. Joan is his wife. They're in their 70s, and Joe is insufferable. It only gets worse when he gets the call from the Nobel people in Sweden,… Read More

James Bond 007: The Pierce Brosnan Era

November 8, 2012 flawintheiris

For years, even before he was Bond, Pierce Brosnan seemed a natural choice to have a licence to kill. The story is that he visited the set of For Your Eyes Only to see his wife Cassandra Harris, who was playing the Countess who is romanced by Roger Moore's James Bond. Producer "Cubby" Broccoli immediately… Read More