Tag Archives: Logan Lerman

Bullet Train review — Action comedy goes off the rails

August 15, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by David Leitch | Written by Zak Olkewicz, from a novel by Kôtarô Isaka | 127 min | ▲▲△△△ | Amazon Prime Back in the 1990s, the success of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction spawned a collection of "Tarantino-esque" gangster pictures with titles like Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead,… Read More

Shirley review — Writer biopic works as a dark domestic drama

July 17, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Josephine Decker | Written by Sarah Gubbins from a novel by Susan Scarf Merrell | 107 min | Amazon Prime It's the 1950s. A young couple, newlyweds, arrive in small town Vermont on the train. Fred (Logan Lerman) is to be the assistant of a renowned professor, Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg), while Fred's… Read More

Top 10 Under-The-Radar films of 2016

January 17, 2017 flawintheiris

As per usual, plenty of the year’s best cinema found their way to us on platforms other than the Cineplex screens, or if they did show at the multiplex, they often came and went relatively unheralded. It’s the fact of Halifax being a small market: Many quality features won’t find distribution in theatres. Here are… Read More

Indignation review — Literate drama and tragedy

August 11, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by James Schamus | Written by Schamus, adapting the novel by Philip Roth | 110 min | ▲▲▲▲△ A refreshing counter-program offering in these dog days of summer, Indignation is a literate, thoughtful, and affecting drama from a filmmaker best known as a producer and screenwriter, a creative collaborator to Ang Lee on films like The… Read More

Noah review

April 2, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Darren Aronofsky Written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel This isn't your daddy's Biblical epic. That was my first thought as I waded into Noah, the $125 million blockbuster from the indie director of Black Swan, The Wrestler, The Fountain and Requiem for a Dream. For awhile Aronofsky was attached to The Wolverine—imagine what that… Read More