Tag Archives: Rebecca Hall

Passing review — Powerful performances in nuanced racial drama

November 15, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Rebecca Hall, with Hall adapting the novel by Nella Larsen | 98 min | Netflix The first feature by actor-turned director Rebecca Hall reportedly speaks to something in Hall's own experience, a family member who had hidden their ethnicity. The passing in this case is the story of a Black woman passing as… Read More

Godzilla vs Kong review — It’s a mighty creature feature

March 31, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Adam Wingard | Written by Eric Pearson, Max Borenstein, Terry Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields | 113 min | Crave Plus A cinematic monster genetically spliced from two different franchises, featuring cinematic DNA from the good-time Kong Skull Island and the last two American Godzilla movies, the 2014 Gareth Edwards effort (not… Read More

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women — Wonder Woman’s secret history

October 16, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Angela Robinson | 108 min William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans) was the creator of Wonder Woman, though this film about his life largely features the origin of his controversial Amazonian superhero as a third-act coda. The real story here is his polyamorous relationship with his wife, Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), and a student,… Read More

New On Canadian Netflix: June/July 2017

July 24, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to- solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) *One note: In May I recommended Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, a film when I first saw it back… Read More

Reviews: Anthropoid, Solace, Tumbledown, A War, The Dressmaker

January 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Anthropoid Directed by Sean Ellis | Written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin | 120 min | On Netflix 1942, Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Two Czech expatriot soldiers Jan (Jamie Dornan) and Josef (Cillian Murphy) parachute into the countryside outside Prague. Their mission: To manage dialogue in painful Czech-accented English and be terribly good-looking in period costume, connect… Read More

The Gift review — Throwback with a sting

August 6, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Joel Edgerton One might say the domestic thriller has gone out of fashion since its 1990s heyday, but that's not entirely true. There was the Idris Elba/Taraji P. Henson picture No Good Deed, and the Jennifer Lopez drama The Boy Next Door. Halle Berry has made a couple, too. They're often morality… Read More

Transcendence review

April 20, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Wally Pfister / Written by Jack Paglen I'm writing this on the first Saturday night since Transcendence opened. I've taken in the deluge of scathing reviews the Johnny Depp movie has earned, along with the reports few are bothering to see it in the cinema. A bad combination. But I'm here to tell you while the… Read More

Iron Man 3 review

May 3, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Shane Black | Written by Black and Drew Pearce, from a Marvel Comic by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby | 131 min | Netflix Here's the beginning of the next phase of Marvel's world cinema domination. It's working pretty well for them so far. Robert Downey Jr is back… Read More