Tag Archives: Michael Sheen

Apostle review — Bloody, muddy Brit horror takes time but gets there

July 20, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Gareth Evans | 130 min | Netflix It's 1905, and a young woman has written a letter to her father in London, pleading for him to come pay her ransom and rescue her from an evil religious group on a god-forsaken island. Her father is indisposed, so a troubled brother, Thomas… Read More

Brad’s Status review — The appalling suffering of the middle-aged white dude

September 28, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Mike White | 92 min Why is it that Ben Stiller comes off as kind of smug, even when he's playing desperate and self-pitying? It's his special gift, challenging his audiences to find him sympathetic in movies like Greenwood, Your Friends and Neighbours and Flirting With Disaster. He really outdoes himself here,… Read More

Passengers (2016) review — Space jaunt scuppered by script’s fatal flaw

December 22, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Morten Tyldum | Written by Jon Spaihts | 116 min The trailers for this film, despite being a bit muddled, have revealed quite a bit about it. If you've seen them then you know Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) are passengers on an enormous space ship headed for a distant solar… Read More

Nocturnal Animals review — Glossy thriller steps between b-movie punch and campy satire

December 18, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom Ford | Written by Ford, adapting the novel by Austin Wright | 116 min | Netflix When slick celebrity designer Tom Ford tried his hand at filmmaking, his first effort was a genuine surprise. A Single Man (2009) was a tender melodrama with Colin Firth as a heartbroken (and exceptionally well-tailored) academic wrapping… Read More

Reviews: Coherence, Duke Of Burgundy, Kill The Messenger, Slow West, Z For Zachariah

October 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Recent releases available on DVD and VOD that didn't screen in local cinemas: Coherence Directed by James Ward Byrkit | Written by Byrkit and Alex Manugian | 89 min Eight dissatisfied urbanites gather for a party on a night when a comet burns through the sky. All their mobile phones go dead, and then the… Read More

Far From The Madding Crowd (2015) review — A handsome period romance

May 13, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, David Nicholls adapting the Thomas Hardy novel | Disney Plus and On Demand I miss Merchant Ivory. There, I've said it. During the heyday of the filmmaking team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, they created a brand of literary adaptations that ignited a genre of corset dramas,… Read More