Tag Archives: Sarah Snook

Oscars 2021 Reviews — The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Pieces Of A Woman, Hillbilly Elegy

April 26, 2021 flawintheiris

Leading up to the 2021 ceremony, I caught up on a few of the nominated features I'd yet to see. I've still got more, but here's what I was able to get to this weekend. The United States vs. Billie Holiday | Directed by Lee Daniels | Written by Suzan-Lori Parks, based on the book… Read More

An American Pickle review — Gentle satire manages a few chuckles

August 24, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Brandon Trost | Written by Simon Rich | 88 min | Crave Plus/HBO Max Who doesn't like Seth Rogen? I like Seth Rogen. He's genuinely charming with his Canadian schlubbiness, honking laugh, and easy-going, pot-smoking demeanour. But, I mostly don't find his movies have a whole lot of laughs. He's got a great… Read More

The Glass Castle review — Moving, messy family drama

August 14, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton | Written by Cretton and Andrew Lanham, based on a book by Jeannette Walls | 127 min From the writer-director and star of Short Term 12 comes an entirely different beast, a family melodrama based on a true story: 1980s New York gossip columnist Jeannette Walls (Brie Larson) is engaged to… 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

10 Best Under-the-Radar Films of 2015

December 31, 2015 flawintheiris

As I mentioned the other day in my look back at 2015 in the cinema, my Top 10 of 2015 will be coming soon, once I've caught up on a few more pictures. In the meantime, here's another list to consider. As per usual, plenty of the year's best cinema found their way to us on… Read More

Predestination review — A twisted tale of time travel

February 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, adapting the short story All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein. Time travel movies keep on coming. Last year we had X-Men: Days of Future Past, which was quite a bit of fun, and now in cinemas are two movies that take audiences across time—Project Almanac and The… Read More