Tag Archives: Richard E. Grant

Nuremberg review — Post-war potboiler goes off the boil

November 5, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by James Vanderbilt | Written by Vanderbilt, based on the book The Nazi And The Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai | ▲▲ | In Cinemas Vanderbilt's name wasn't one I was immediately familiar with before this feature, but his credits as a producer or writer are diverse — David Fincher's Zodiac, a couple of the… Read More

From The Vault: The Player (1992)

April 6, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Altman | Written by Michael Tolkin | 124 min | ▲▲▲▲ | Criterion Channel/VOD This review is prompted by the recent arrival of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Apple TV+ show, The Studio, which features a veteran Hollywood exec named Griffin Mill played by Bryan Cranston. No accident that Griffin Mill is… Read More

Death of a Unicorn review — Bloody myth goes lame

March 28, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed Alex Scharfman | 107 min | ▲▲ | VOD I really admire the American upstart film studio A24 for investing in talented filmmakers and letting them take big swings. They've done it again here with Alex Scharfman, but the end result is a swing and miss — and that's what sometimes will… Read More

Saltburn review — Gorgeous and lurid, fascinating and flawed

November 23, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Emerald Fennell | 127 min | ▲▲▲▲△ Best Original Screenplay Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell made a big splash with Promising Young Woman, has written and directed a follow-up that disguises its genre for much of its running time in a series of narrative lock boxes and red herrings. Is it a romance?… Read More

The Lesson review — A delightfully trashy, twisted tale

August 26, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Alice Troughton | Written by Alex MacKeith | 103 min | ▲▲▲△△ | VOD and Digital Here's a tasty little movie recommended for the keen Richard E Grant fan out there. The Lesson is an outrageous melodrama turned thriller that trades in a whole lot of long, lingering looks between the players and… Read More

Persuasion review — Breezy, modernized Austen still convinces

July 18, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Carrie Cracknell | Written by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, based on the book by Jane Austen | 107 min |▲▲▲△△| Netflix I was thinking we must be in the midst of an Austen revival, but Austen never really goes away. Just this summer we've seen Fire Island, which has its roots… Read More

Hidden City (1987) review — Moody thriller worth a look

May 24, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Stephen Poliakoff | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△| Britbox Temporary access to Britbox — the streaming service boasting a whole lot of older UK content — led me to this genuine curiosity. It's an existential mystery of sorts, fairly low-budget but making the best of the many grimy mid-'80s London locations with… Read More

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie review — Not fabulous, but OK

September 26, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jonathan Butterell, Dan Gillespie Sells, and Tom MacRae | 115 min | Amazon Prime The terrific if slightly dated documentary The Celluloid Closet from 1995 took a look at the way Hollywood depicted LGBTQ culture — going back before those assembled letters meant anything to anyone. The doc showed how for… Read More

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker review — It’s better than we had a right to expect

December 20, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by JJ Abrams | Written by Abrams and Chris Terrio, with Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow | 141 min Overnight doesn't feel like enough time to have the final film in this 42-year-saga settle in. It's just too big, with too much going on. But that's to the blockbuster's credit. Star Wars: The Rise… Read More

10 Great Richard E. Grant roles

February 20, 2019 flawintheiris

The undisputed media star of this year's Academy Awards season—coming to a conclusion with the ceremony on Sunday, February 24—is the Swaziland-born veteran actor Richard E. Grant. Those of us deeply embedded in the cult of his first feature film, Withnail and I, are especially enjoying the various articles about Grant's enthusiasm, and his deft social… Read More