Tag Archives: Matthias Schoenaerts

Amsterdam review — An interesting mess, but a mess nonetheless

October 17, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David O Russell | 134 min | ▲▲▲△△ This is the return of the deeply problematic, reportedly toxic filmmaker David O Russell to the Prestige Alley — that time between October and the end of the year when most of Hollywood's Oscar-bait features arrive in cinemas and jostle for garlands and… Read More

Our Souls At Night review — Gentle drama of senior love

January 24, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Ritesh Batra | Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, from a novel by Kent Haruf | 103 min | Netflix For readers in Halifax, here's the quintessential Oxford movie — remembering the kind of prestige drama programming aimed at local senior citizens at the much beloved, much missed single-screen cinema in… Read More

The Old Guard review — Big-budget action fantasy? Check.

July 14, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood | Written by Greg Rucka, based on the graphic novels by Rucka and Leandro Fernandez | 125 min | Netflix This is a blockbuster that arrives streaming in a season without superhero movies, and in that it might satisfy audiences looking for an escapist fix, but it also has things in… Read More

A Hidden Life review — Beautiful to see, but distant

April 10, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Terrence Malick | 174 min | On Demand In 1939, in St Radegund, a remote mountain village in Austria, live Franz and Fani Jägerstätter (August Diehl and Valerie Pachner) and their kids. They're staunch Catholics who work off the land, the beautiful meadows and hills over which dark clouds form, providing… Read More

Now On Canadian Netflix: January 2020

January 18, 2020 flawintheiris

The Two Popes On the face of it, this strikes me as strange material for Fernando Meirelles to approach. The Brazilian filmmaker responsible for City Of God and The Constant Gardener is a visionary of colour and kinetics, of movement. Why would he choose to tell the story of two senior citizens having a conversation, his… Read More

Red Sparrow review — Jennifer Lawrence is much better than the film she’s in

March 2, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Francis Lawrence | Written by Justin Haythe, adapting the novel by Jason Matthews | 139 min There's something uncanny about the stride of Charlotte Rampling. In this film she's the Matron, the head instructor at Sparrow School, the secret camp where Russia trains its hardest, deadliest spies. Maybe it's her boots that make… Read More

A Bigger Splash review — Trashy times in the sun

June 1, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Luca Guadagnino | Written by David Kajganich and Alain Page, inspired by the film La Piscine | 125 min | ▲▲▲△△ Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is a rock star, an aesthetic cross between Chrissie Hynde and David Bowie. She's just had surgery on her voice, and her doctors insist she shouldn't speak. She and… Read More

Remembering Alan Rickman and David Bowie

January 16, 2016 flawintheiris

It's been a rough week, absorbing the news that actor, writer, and director Alan Rickman, and creative icon David Bowie, have died. Both were 69. A Shakespearean thesp in the UK, most audiences in North America were introduced to Alan Rickman with the one-two punch of Die Hard (1988) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). He's remarkable… Read More

The Atlantic Film Festival 2012: Rust & Bone, the wrap-up

September 21, 2012 flawintheiris

A week flies by when you're at the movies every night. And though there were plenty of films I would have liked to have seen, I'm very happy with what I managed to take in this year. Highlights for me included Sarah Polley's startlingly intimate Stories We Tell, Michael Haneke's Love (Amour) and Thomas Vinterberg's… Read More