Tag Archives: Rosamund Pike

Saltburn review — Gorgeous and lurid, fascinating and flawed

November 23, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Emerald Fennell | 127 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | In Cinemas 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… 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

#FIN2020 Review — Radioactive

September 19, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Marjane Satrapi | Written by Jack Thorne, adapting a book by Lauren Redniss | 109 min I don’t know what it is about biopics. I’m always attracted to them, but almost never satisfied by the experience. It's a genre that reveals celebrated, fascinating personalities but tends to conventional, predictable storytelling. The good news… Read More

A Rosamund Pike Primer: Redux

August 7, 2020 flawintheiris

Since I first wrote about Rosamund Pike, she has strongly avoided the Hollywood A-list, despite it being entirely available to her. Full marks, then, for her left-of centre choices since Gone Girl, in films like A United Kingdom, Hostiles, and especially A Private War. I look forward to her role as Marie Curie in Radioactive,… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 10 — A few more very good movies

October 7, 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

Now on Canadian Netflix: December 2018

December 19, 2018 flawintheiris

Roma One could make an argument last year's Mudbound was the feature that signalled Netlfix's prestige drama interest, readying their horses for the annual Oscar race. Roma is really the tipping point, a film with the critical momentum to suggest it could actually take the Best Picture statuette. I'd be surprised, simply because it's much… Read More

A Private War review — The costs of reporting human suffering

December 3, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Matthew Heineman | Written by Arash Amel, based on a Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner | 110 min Matthew Heineman is the award-winning documentarian who made the gritty drug war doc Cartel Land. This is his feature debut, and it's a perfect pairing of material and filmmaker—he tells the story of the final decade in… Read More

Johnny English trilogy review — Inept spy squeaks by on physical gags

November 11, 2018 flawintheiris

Johnny English Strikes Again | Directed by David Kerr | Written by William Davies | 89 min I'll admit it, I wasn't all that excited to see these films. The reviews have never been great—on Rotten Tomatoes, the second film has the best score at a whopping 38%. I have plenty of respect for Rowan… Read More

Beirut review — Genre thrills and political cynicism

April 18, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Brad Anderson | Written by Tony Gilroy | 109 min Reportedly, the script for Beirut has been sitting in Gilroy's drawer for 25 years, which maybe explains its dusty politics or the fact it feels a little anachronistic—maybe something Michael Caine would've starred in during one of those periods in the 1980s when he… Read More

Raid On Entebbe (1977) and 7 Days In Entebbe reviews — Real-life hijack thrillers span generations

March 25, 2018 flawintheiris