Tag Archives: Michael Winterbottom

The Trip To Greece review — Another welcome jaunt with old frenemies

May 23, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Winterbottom | 103 min | Crave "You were unpalatable as a young man," says Rob, after Steve claims he's getting better looking as he gets older. And it doesn't take more than a minute or two for these two improv-honed performers to get to the core of their connection: teasing each other… Read More

Greed review — Satire on big money got no soul

March 5, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Winterbottom | Written by Winterbottom and Sean Gray | 104 min | Crave Plus "I don't need drugs, I am drugs!" says the young Ricky "Greedy" McCreadie (Jamie Blackley, looking like Rufus Wainwright's angrier brother) who eventually becomes a billionaire, knight, fashion tycoon, and all around asshole — played by Steve Coogan.… Read More

Reviews From The Vault Vol. 9 — Thrillers

September 4, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

The Trip To Spain review — More culinary travels with caustic pals

September 4, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Winterbottom | 108 min Interesting that the writing credits for these films—a UK TV series reedited for cinema release elsewhere—are a little vague. I think it speaks to how improvised they all are, and to the gifts of the two leads—Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon—playing exaggerated, ingrate versions of themselves. All of… Read More

A Cult Of One: Code 46

January 14, 2017 flawintheiris

Welcome back to a semi-regular feature—though I realized today that it's been more than two years since I last did one of these—on FITI called ” A Cult of One,” where I highlight an older film that doesn't get much love but is worth discovering. Directed by Michael Winterbottom | Written by Frank Cotterell Boyce… Read More

The Trip To Italy review

September 26, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Michael Winterbottom I was so thrilled to discover this sequel exists! The first movie, The Trip, from 2011, was a whole lot of fun—Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon improvising dialogue, riffing off each other, while driving around and eating at gourmet restos in northern England. The film functioned as a gorgeous travelogue,… Read More

The Trip (2011) review

August 28, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Winterbottom Weirdly, this film has no credited writer. Maybe not so weird. It's very possible that the picture was entirely improvised by the two leads, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, both of whom were in Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. Something else people should know: The film is an… Read More

Another look at The Killer Inside Me

April 6, 2011 flawintheiris

I love seeing a provocative movie every once in awhile, one that takes me by surprise,one that shakes me out of any possibility that I might be watching it for escapist reasons.The Killer Inside Me was one of those movies. I reviewed it on DVD last year, you can findmy thoughts here. I found justification… Read More