Tag Archives: Lois Smith

The Uninvited review — Hollywood and Time

May 20, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Nadia Conners | 97 min | ▲▲ | VOD This is a talky, Tinsel Town satire of the sort where a group of entitled people gather, indulge in substances and discuss issues of age and paths not taken. It’s cut from the cloth of California Split or The Anniversary Party. Rose (Elizabeth… Read More

Twisters/Twister (1996) reviews — One spins, the other sucks

July 19, 2024 flawintheiris

Twisters | Directed by Lee Isaac Chung | Written by Mark L. Smith and Joseph Kosinski | 117 min | ▲△△△△ | Amazon Prime I'm not sure why this new picture is being marketed as a sequel (check out my rewatch review of the original below). Twisters is a stone cold reboot with no characters… Read More

Lady Bird review — The greatest hits of adolescent upheaval

November 21, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Greta Gerwig | 94 min Greta Gerwig, the queen of the New York indie—witness Frances Ha, Mistress America, and Maggie's Plan—takes her turn as a writer/director in this tale of a willful teenager in the wilds of 2002 Sacramento, California. Tonally very much of a kind with those movies she's starred… Read More