Tag Archives: Kate Mara

My Days Of Mercy (2018) review — Passionate, political romance balances dark and light

June 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Tali Shalom-Ezer | Written by Joe Barton | 108 min | Amazon Prime Every once in awhile you stumble on a film that has next to no profile in the culture, and you wonder how that's possible. How did My Days Of Mercy, starring local boy done good, Elliot Page, not receive a… Read More

VOD Reviews — Chappaquiddick, Hampstead, Borg vs McEnroe

July 17, 2018 flawintheiris

Chappaquiddick Directed by John Curran | Written by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan | 106 min This must be the final piece of the Kennedy legend to find its way to the big screen. If they've finally arrived at the Ted Kennedy story, the scandal of his having driven drunk leading to the death of… Read More

New On Canadian Netflix: June/July 2017

July 24, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to- solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) *One note: In May I recommended Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, a film when I first saw it back… Read More

Megan Leavey review — Only dog lovers need attend

June 9, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Written by Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo, and Tim Lovestedt | 116 min Megan Leavey is based on the true story of a US Marine and her bomb sniffing German Shepherd, both of whom were deployed to Iraq. In the documentary Blackfish Cowperthwaite awoke the world to marine parks' cruelty to cetaceans, so it… Read More

Morgan review — Pulpy but Satisfying Science Fiction

September 7, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Luke Scott | Written by Seth W. Owen | 92 min. | ▲▲▲△△ Nice to see young directors go into the family business. Consider Sofia Coppola and her many excellent films, or more recently, Brandon Cronenberg's body horror Antiviral, which evoked some of his father David's work. Now we've got Luke Scott, son of Ridley, with Dad… Read More

The Martian review — Deep Space Hokum

October 2, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by Drew Goddard from a book by Andy Weir | 141 min Sometimes professionalism is its own reward, and sometimes it isn't. Ridley Scott is a craftsperson of the highest order, and here he delivers a very well-made film crammed with entertainment, if you can manage to ignore the… Read More

Fantastic Four review — A descent into superhero awfulness

August 10, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Josh Trank, Written by Trank, Simon Kinberg, and Jeremy Slater, based on the Marvel comic by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby The Fantastic Four I grew up with was written and illustrated by Canadian comic creator John Byrne. Before superhero comics got all mature and gritty with Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, these… Read More

Transcendence review

April 20, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Wally Pfister / Written by Jack Paglen I'm writing this on the first Saturday night since Transcendence opened. I've taken in the deluge of scathing reviews the Johnny Depp movie has earned, along with the reports few are bothering to see it in the cinema. A bad combination. But I'm here to tell you while the… Read More