Tag Archives: Mark Duplass

Tully review — A blindingly honest motherhood dramedy

May 7, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason Reitman | Written by Diablo Cody | 96 min Jason Reitman is the celebrated filmmaker of Thank You For Smoking and Up In The Air, and with Oscar-winning screenwriter, Diablo Cody, the teen-pregnancy dramedy Juno and Young Adult. His past two projects were explorations of unpopular genres that landed DOA at the box office;… Read More

Reviews: Ida, Blue Ruin, The One I Love, White Bird In A Blizzard

December 31, 2014 flawintheiris

A few impressions of films now available on one of the alternative platforms—Netflix, DVD, Blu-Ray, VOD, iTunes, what have you—that didn't open in local cinemas. Ida A spare and gorgeous black and white drama from filmmaker Pawel Pawilikowski (My Summer of Love, The Woman In The Fifth), Ida is set in Communist Poland in the… Read More

Zero Dark Thirty review

January 12, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Written by Mark Boal In the opening scenes of Zero Dark Thirty, following the text that the film is "based on first-hand accounts of actual events," Jason Clarke's CIA agent, the single-named Dan, is interrogating a prisoner at some Black Site, an American ops location without an address, somewhere in Pakistan. They're… Read More

Reviews: Your Sister’s Sister, People Like Us, The Woman in the Fifth, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Safety Not Guaranteed

December 19, 2012 flawintheiris

I've spent some time recently catching up with movies I missed in cinemas, either because they opened and closed too quickly or didn't open at all in my town. Here are a few notables now out on DVD. Your Sister's Sister Written and directed by Lynn Shelton This film is some kind of perfect, tiny… Read More