Tag Archives: Kodi Smit-McPhee

Maria review — Jolie impresses, but the aria misses a few notes

December 2, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Pablo Larraín | Written by Steven Knight | 124 min | ▲▲▲△△ One of the most famous women of the 21st Century plays one of the most famous of the 20th. You can see why Angelina Jolie would choose the role, to be Maria Callas. Anyone can see their parallel relationships with the… Read More

The Power Of The Dog review — Stylish western delivers dark twist

December 14, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jane Campion | Written by Campion, adapting a novel by Thomas Savage | 126 min | Netflix The Power Of The Dog is a story of brothers in the new west, in 1925, with grim, biblical overtones. George (Jesse Plemons) and Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) have 25 years ranching in the Montana badlands… Read More

2067 review — Time-travel yarn gets tangled up

October 1, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Seth Larney | Written by Larney and Dave Paterson | 114 min | Amazon Prime Just this week the theoretical idea of time travel got just a little more credence, but it's always had potent allegorical power in the minds of fantasists. The era I came of age in had plenty of these… Read More

X-Men: Apocalypse review — Sluggish superhero-fest shines sporadically

May 29, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Bryan Singer | Written by Simon Kinberg, with Singer, Michael Dougherty, and Dan Harris | 144 min | ▲▲▲△△ This is the sixth X-Men epic, not counting the two Wolverine spin-off movies (with a third on the way). But the 1980s-set X-Men: Apocalypse is also the third movie in a soft reboot of the franchise,… Read More

10 Best Under-the-Radar Films of 2015

December 31, 2015 flawintheiris

As I mentioned the other day in my look back at 2015 in the cinema, my Top 10 of 2015 will be coming soon, once I've caught up on a few more pictures. In the meantime, here's another list to consider. As per usual, plenty of the year's best cinema found their way to us on… Read More

Reviews: Coherence, Duke Of Burgundy, Kill The Messenger, Slow West, Z For Zachariah

October 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Recent releases available on DVD and VOD that didn't screen in local cinemas: Coherence Directed by James Ward Byrkit | Written by Byrkit and Alex Manugian | 89 min Eight dissatisfied urbanites gather for a party on a night when a comet burns through the sky. All their mobile phones go dead, and then the… Read More

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review

July 13, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Reeves, Written by Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, from a novel by Pierre Boulle I enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes, released back in 2011. It seemed an unlikely prequel to a 43-year-old film, but as a slab of b-movie entertainment I thought it worked. My biggest beef with… Read More