Tag Archives: Terence Stamp

Last Night in Soho review — Visions of hell on Wardour Street

October 29, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns | 116 min | Crave Edgar Wright feels like a peer, a media nerd who loves him some movies. The movies he makes are more than informed by his passion and knowledge of all the movies he's watched, they're enraptured by them. He and… Read More

Top 10 of 1999

March 19, 2019 flawintheiris

20 years ago, Hollywood had a great 12 months. Maybe it was pre-millennial tension, or just a confluence of great talent and risk-taking producers and studios, but it was a moment that wasn't to be repeated in the years following. I enjoy putting together lists of the best films from years gone by, and the… Read More

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children review — Looks good, but wishing for more weirdness

October 3, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Tim Burton | Written by Jane Goldman adapting a novel by Ransom Riggs | 127 min While still being Hollywood's most distinctive stylist and purveyor of all things spooky and ooky, Tim Burton struggles with his handle on narrative. Or, at least, he has in recent years. Once again, he's nailed the look… Read More

Far From The Madding Crowd (2015) review — A handsome period romance

May 13, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, David Nicholls adapting the Thomas Hardy novel | Disney+ I miss Merchant Ivory. There, I've said it. During the heyday of the filmmaking team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, they created a brand of literary adaptations that ignited a genre of corset dramas, many of which were… Read More

The Films of Steven Soderbergh

February 4, 2013 flawintheiris

One of the biggest disappointments of 2013 (so far) is what appears to be Steven Soderbergh's (seemingly) serious intent to retire from directing movies. Soderbergh is consistently one of the most interesting American filmmakers. He's not often the screenwriter of his projects, but he's certainly an auteur in every other way I can think of.… Read More

The Adjustment Bureau review

March 6, 2011 flawintheiris

Written and directed by George Nolfi, adapted from a Philip K. Dick short story Adjustment Team | 106 min | Netflix Why am I such a sucker for a fantasy so surely set in the real world? I wish I knew. Just superstitious, I suppose. So long as the internal logic makes sense to… Read More