Tag Archives: Margaret Qualley

Drive-Away Dolls review — Horny and gay party times

February 23, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Ethan Coen | Written by Coen and Tricia Cooke | 84 min | ▲▲▲△△ There's a scene late in the running in Drive-Away Dolls where one prominent, recognizable star throws the head of another prominent, recognizable star, which is in a box full of ice, down the street at the feet of a… Read More

Sanctuary review — A bonded pair

September 1, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Zachary Wigon | Written by Micah Bloomberg | 96 min |▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime When Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) walks into a hotel room where Hal (Christopher Abbott) is staying, she's wearing a blonde wig so patently awful right away you'll wonder about her bona fides. Apparently she's there to interview him about insurance… Read More

Stars At Noon review — Margaret Qualley makes it worth seeing

December 13, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Claire Denis | Written by Denis and Andrew Litvack, from a novel by Denis Johnson | 135 min | ▲▲▲△△ | On Digital and VOD Claire Denis is having a good month. Her film Beau Travail is Top 10 on Sight And Sound's Greatest Films of All Time, and her second English-language feature… Read More

My Salinger Year review — New York writer makes it after all

March 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Philippe Falardeau | Written by Falardeau, based on the novel by Joanna Smith Rakoff | 101 min | Crave Plus There's the Coming Of Age movie, the Ambitious Youth Comes To The Big City movie, and the Fish Out Of Water movie, and My Salinger Year is a cross section of all three.… Read More

Kristen Stewart film reviews: Seberg, Lizzie, JT LeRoy, Underwater

June 4, 2020 flawintheiris

Kristen Stewart is working nonstop these days — she's been in five features in the past three years, the highest profile being Charlie's Angels, with Happiest Season still expected later in 2020. The actor achieved fame through the sparkly vampire-ridden Twilight series, but in recent years has pursued far more interesting and varied feature work.… Read More

Second Viewing: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood review

August 26, 2019 flawintheiris

I love it when people have a lot of opinions on a movie, especially when that movie is original material that genuinely catches the interest of the moviegoing public. The new Quentin Tarantino picture has topped $100 million domestically with much more coming from the international box office—it's a solid global hit in a summer… Read More

Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood review — Tarantino delivers a sprawling nostalgia-fest

July 28, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino | 161 min | Netflix We all know Quentin Tarantino loves movies, and that he makes movies about movies. With his ninth feature, he's also telling us he loves television, and the cheesier American pop culture of the 1960s. In this long, languid production, probably best described as a… Read More

New on Canadian Netflix: August/September 2017

September 27, 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.) Death Note (2017) I was a big fan of Adam Wingard's The Guest (found elsewhere on this month's list), bit… Read More

#AIFF2017 Day 7: Geek Girls, Novitiate

September 21, 2017 flawintheiris

Geek Girls Here's a message to documentary filmmakers: Your project may not be entirely feasible if you make yourself the centre of it and not once, but twice, you show footage of yourself calling possible interviewees, while your voice-over says something like, "Many experts and celebrities I'd hoped to speak to bailed out at the… Read More

The Nice Guys review — Good Times with a Polyester Pair

May 19, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Shane Black | Written by Black and Anthony Bagarozzi | 116 min | ▲▲▲▲△ Shane Black is the master of buddy action comedy, having written Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, not to mention his superhero success Iron Man 3. The Nice Guys lands right in his sweet spot—boys unleash R-rated… Read More