Tag Archives: Scoot McNairy

Nightbitch review — Amy Adams fantastic as werewolf mom

January 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Marielle Heller | Written by Heller from the book by Rachel Yoder | 99 min | ▲▲▲▲| Disney+ A version of this review appeared on FITI during the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024 This week the nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards dropped. For the most part I think it's a… Read More

A Complete Unknown review — It’s all new to me, like some mystery

December 25, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by James Mangold | Written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, from the book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald | 142 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave I slouched into the screening room for A Complete Unknown with more than a few reservations about what I was about to see. I've gone on the record… Read More

Destroyer review — Kidman goes gritty in flawed thriller

January 25, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Karyn Kusama | Written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi | 121 min | Prime Video Karyn Kusama hangs her movie on Nicole Kidman's thousand-yard stare. Kidman is Detective Erin Bell, with some particularly horrendous prosthetics and make-up around those eyes. If we're supposed to assume she's an addict, the film is coy… Read More

Reviews: The Homesman, Men Women & Children, Song One, Gemma Bovery, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Black Sea

May 4, 2015 flawintheiris

A few thoughts on movies now available on VOD, DVD and Blu-Ray The Homesman A powerfully sui generis western, the kind of a story that steps over so many of the generic Hollywood screenwriting conventions you'll never see where it's going. Director and star Tommy Lee Jones adapts a Glendon Swarthout novel about a woman… Read More

Frank review — Quirky, original, and moving

November 6, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, written by Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan Frank is a strange little backstage comedy/drama on its surface. Underneath it's a solemn examination of damaged people inside a circle of attention and creativity. It's maybe got a dash of Almost Famous, but it's far more peculiar. You should know, a favourable comparison… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2013: Day 4: Le Passé (The Past), Touchy Feely

September 16, 2013 flawintheiris

You know how when you're seeing a great dramatic movie, and I mean great, the screening room is totally silent, like everyone's holding their breath? That's what it was like for the 130 minutes of Le Passé in Park Lane Cinema 3 last night.The film, the new drama from Asghar Farhadi, director of the Oscar-winning A… Read More

Killing Them Softly review

December 12, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Andrew DominikWritten by Dominik, adapting the George V. Higgins novel Cogan's TradeKilling Them Softly is a sour pill of a movie. Adapting Higgins' 1974 crime novel and setting it during the financial crisis and presidential election of 2008, New Zealander Dominik—who wowed many, including myself, with his epic, languorous 2007 western The Assassination… Read More