Tag Archives: streaming

Pathaan review — Bonkers superspy thriller goes waaaay over the top

September 25, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Siddharth Anand | Written by Anand, Shridhar Raghavan, and Abbas Tyrewala | 146 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime I think it's fair to say the cross-cultural popularity of 2022 Oscar-winning Indian historical action and fantasy movie RRR has brought more attention to action cinema from Bollywood. Shah Rukh Khan is a big… Read More

Sanctuary review — A bonded pair

September 1, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Zachary Wigon | Written by Micah Bloomberg | 96 min |▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime When Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) walks into a hotel room where Hal (Christopher Abbott) is staying, she's wearing a blonde wig so patently awful right away you'll wonder about her bona fides. Apparently she's there to interview him about insurance… Read More

Squaring The Circle review — The minds behind iconic rock imagery

August 29, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Anton Corbijn | Written by Trish D Chetty | 101 min | ▲▲▲△△ | On Digital and VOD This is a stylish, gritty documentary from a renowned Dutch photographer and filmmaker (Control, The American, A Most Wanted Man) who made his name capturing rock stars of the 1980s and 1990s in stylish, gritty… Read More

The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan review — Pistols or blades at noon?

August 26, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Martin Bourboulon | Written by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, based on the story by Alexandre Dumas | 122 min | ▲▲▲△△ | For rent on VOD and Digital For French cinemas, this is a huge-budget adaptation of the beloved Dumas adventure story, and the first to be done in French… 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

Renfield review — A bloody waste of time

August 24, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Chris McKay | Written by Ryan Ridley, Robert Kirkman, and Ava Tramer | 93 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave Like Cocaine Bear, this was one of those high-concept comedies that came out in the spring and I missed in cinemas, expecting to catch up with it on another platform. Sure enough, it's now… Read More

Heart of Stone review — Mission: Impassive

August 16, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom Harper | Written by Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder | 122 min | ▲▲△△△ | On Netflix We've been hearing lately about these big-budget action movies showing up on streaming services, pictures so dumbed-down audiences could still spend most of the movie looking at their phones and not miss much. They're called… Read More

Cocaine Bear review — Something of a phenomenon (baby)

August 1, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Elizabeth Banks | Written by Jimmy Warden | 95 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime Cocaine Bear is an entirely unlikely reunion of cast from The Americans. To recommend it only for that would be a mistake, but it's definitely worth noting the movie features Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, and Matthew Rhys, though… Read More

Who Killed Maggie Moore(s)? review — Comedy crime thriller worth seeing for Hamm and Fey, not much else

July 18, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by John Slattery | Written by Paul Bernbaum | 99 min | ▲▲△△△ | VOD and Digital Mad Men fans will likely recognize the filmmaker's name instantly. John Slattery is the actor-turned- director who was Roger Sterling on that show, which he starred on (and directed episodes of) with Jon Hamm, who's the lead… Read More

Bernie Langille Wants To Know What Happened To Bernie Langille review

July 9, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jackie Torrens | 78 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | CBC Gem Bernie Langille has lived in the shadow of his grandfather's death his whole life. Bernie is named after him, a veteran who died in suspicious circumstances in Halifax in February 1968. That's the core of this documentary — it rolls out… Read More