Tag Archives: Sam Riley

Widow Clicquot review — Champagne drama goes flat

November 17, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Thomas Napper | Written by Erin Dignam and Christopher Monger, from a book by Tilar J. Mazzeo | ▲▲△△△ | Netflix At first it's hard to say why this picture is a dud, given the talent arrayed in front of the camera and even behind, and the cinematography is lovely. The themes are… 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

Free Fire review — Guns in a Warehouse. The End.

April 19, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Ben Wheatley | Written by Wheatley and Amy Jump | 90 min Free Fire may be set in the 1970s, but it feels entirely like one of the forgotten post-Tarantino gangster pictures of the late '90s, back when everyone loved Reservoir Dogs and every studio was willing to sink money into low-budget, wordy gangster… Read More

Reviews from the Vault: Vol. 2 (Atlantic Film Festival Edition)

August 31, 2015 flawintheiris

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called 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