Tag Archives: Peter Dinklage

Roofman review — Channing Tatum’s gentleman thief is a charmer

October 12, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Derek Cianfrance | Written by Cianfrance and Kirt Gunn | 126 min | ▲▲▲▲ Right off the bat, what makes Roofman so terrific is it's another tale about America today — even as it's set a few years in the past, there's something undeniably current about this story, which is based in fact.… Read More

Wicked: Part 1 review — Too sweet and too long, but thoughtful

November 23, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon M Chu | Written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, based on the musical by Stephen Schwartz and the novel by Gregory Maguire | 160 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime I don't think it's outrageous to say that 2021 was a peak year for the movie musical. The highest point for… Read More

Unfrosted review — The (Fake) History of Pop Tarts

May 7, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Jerry Seinfeld | Written by Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, and Barry Marder | 93 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix Jerry Seinfeld, the one-time king of television comedy about nothing, has directed a feature film about breakfast pastry. That's not nothing, but it's not much. It’s also the secret to this movie's success,… Read More

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 | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave 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 a… 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