Tag Archives: Peter Dinklage

She Came To Me review — This is a weird one, approach with caution

October 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Rebecca Miller | 102 min | ▲▲△△△ Rebecca Miller has had a compelling, if shaggy career as a filmmaker. Prominently for those of us in this part of the world, in 2005 she wrote and directed The Ballad Of Jack and Rose, shot in PEI and starring her husband, Daniel Day-Lewis.… Read More

I Think We’re Alone Now review — World’s end, feeling fine.

August 30, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Reed Morano | Written by Mike Makowsky | 99 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime, VOD Let's talk about the director of this feature for a second because she's had a fascinating journey to feature filmmaking. She comes from years as a cinematographer — you'd think more camera wizards would become filmmakers, but… Read More

Cyrano review — Peter Dinklage and the tunes make this musical sing

March 1, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Wright | Written by Erica Schmidt, based on the play by Edmond Rostand | 123 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime My first introduction to Cyrano de Bergerac was in English by Steve Martin in the delightful Roxanne, and then in French just a few years later by Gérard Depardieu. Based on… Read More

I Care A Lot review — Crime comedy full of wonderfully loathsome people

March 2, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by J Blakeson | 118 min | Amazon Prime in Canada Marla Grayson is a terrible person. I mean, one of the worst ever in a feature film. I'd put her up there with the dude who eats people in Silence Of The Lambs, both bad lieutenants, any Sith Lord you'd care to… Read More

Now Streaming on Netflix, Crave, and Prime: June 2019

June 14, 2019 flawintheiris

Knock Down The House | Netflix The inspirational documentary offering evidence that there are still leaders in the United States whose motivations are respectable, responsible, and righteous. The film follows the primary campaigns of four progressive Democrats, all women, all very different from different states, and all of whom are looking to make a difference… Read More

Avengers: Infinity War review — Massive scale and massive stakes

April 27, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo | Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely | 149 min Since the mid-'80s, Marvel Comics have been finding their sales figures spiking with summer crossover series — pitting their popular heroes against each other and/or a terrible, frequently cosmic, threat—with titles like Secret Wars, Civil War, Secret… Read More

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri review — McDormand’s great in dark comedy

November 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh | 115 min | Crave Plus It'll be a surprise to no one that Irish/Brit filmmaker McDonagh, of In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths fame (not to be confused with his brother, John Michael, who gave us Calvary and War On Everyone) got his start in theatre. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing… Read More

Pixels review — It’s pretty bad, folks

July 30, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Chris Columbus, written by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, based on a short film by Patrick Jean There was no way I could miss the critical drubbing Pixels received when it opened last weekend. Reviews were practically unanimous in their negative assessment of the film, from one side of the critical community to… Read More

X-Men: Days Of Future Past review

May 25, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Bryan Singer, written by Simon Kinburg from a story by Kinburg, Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn I never really understood why 20th Century Fox chose to prematurely conclude the X-Men franchise. Fox officially called it quits as a trilogy, with Brent Ratner's limp X-Men: The Last Stand back in 2006. Yes, Singer's beneath-the-skin understanding… Read More