Tag Archives: Matthew Goode

Freud’s Last Session review — Debating faith, fear, and finality

January 21, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Brown | Written by Brown and Mark St Germain, based on a play by St Germain | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△ Here's a movie based on a play that imagines a daylong meeting in London in September 1939 between “Christian apologist” CS Lewis, who would write The Lion, The Witch, And The… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: October 2018

October 2, 2018 flawintheiris

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society A fine, romantic period drama, stewed in the bones of 84 Charing Cross Road and any number of WWII-era tales of British privation. This most clumsily-titled film earned a cinematic release in the UK, but not here. It's too bad because it's a good-looking picture, with lovely seaside… Read More

Self/less review — Immortality for dummies

July 13, 2015 flawintheiris

Written by Tarsem Singh, Written by David Pastor and Alex Pastor In the midst of a summer crammed with fantasy franchises, sequels, and prequels, comes this oddity, a free-standing scifi thriller starring Ben Kingsley and Ryan Reynolds, with a plot that channels elements of both John Frankenheimer's Seconds and an obscure Mick Jagger picture, Freejack. It's… Read More

The Imitation Game review — Quality historical drama

December 24, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Graham Moore adapting a book by Andrew Hodges Alan Turing was a British mathematician who helped break the Enigma code, the encrypted communications the Nazis used to direct U-Boat attacks in the North Atlantic, amongst other things. His contribution to that code-breaking—including the creation of one of the world's… Read More

Stoker review

March 23, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Park Chan-Wook | Written by Wentworth Miller and Erin Cressida Wilson | 98 min | On Demand A little like if Dark Shadows was played totally straight, Stoker is a concoction both fluffy and gothic, a self-conscious Hitchcock pastiche that dances on the edge of camp before eventually becoming the thing it pretends to be. Park… Read More