Tag Archives: Tim McInnerny

The End review — Not a bang, a musical whimper

December 15, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer | Written by Oppenheimer and Rasmus Heisterberg | 148 min | ▲▲△△△ Sometimes you can congratulate a filmmaker for their ambition, the ideas baked into the work or the way they tell a story, even if the end result is flawed. Documentarian Oppenheimer — who gave us the shockingly good non-fiction… Read More

Gladiator II review — We are entertained, but this movie doesn’t echo in eternity

November 22, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by David Scarpa and Peter Craig | 148 min | ▲▲▲△△ I was never a part of Gladiator's rabid cult. I recognized it as an unexpectedly popular throwback entertainment, swords and sandals at a time when neither were cool, but to anoint it with five Oscars in 2000, including… Read More

20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (From the 20th Century)

May 24, 2021 flawintheiris

I started with Netflix, notorious for having a shallow catalogue of older movies, then went on to Disney's new service, Star. Now I'm having a look at Prime, which actually boasts a bigger variety of films 21 years or older. Here's some of the best available now: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) This is Werner… Read More

The Aeronauts review — Fair skies for airborne adventure

March 18, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom Harper | Written by Harper and Jack Thorne | 100 min | Amazon Prime It's 1864 London, and flamboyant balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) and meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) are aiming to go higher in the air than any human beings have before. The Theory Of Everything actors have an… Read More

Reviews: Creative Control, Misconduct, The Benefactor, Queen of Earth, MI-5

May 16, 2016 flawintheiris

Creative Control Directed by Benjamin Dickinson | Written by Dickinson and Micah Bloomberg | 97 min. | ▲▲▲▲△ | On DVD, Blu-Ray, and VOD May 17 My first impression of Creative Control was that star/director/writer Dickinson is a narcotized Noah Baumbach. Not a terribly generous thought, but that's what I was thinking. As I went deeper into his… Read More