Tag Archives: Timothy Spall

From The Vault: The Bride (1985)

March 23, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Franc Roddam | Written by Lloyd Fonvielle, adapting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 118 min | ▲▲▲ | Shout Factory/Scream Factory Blu-Ray, VOD Sometime in the months ahead a picture called The Bride will arrive, another adaptation of Shelley's Frankenstein, or maybe a direct remake of James Whale's classic Bride of Frankenstein. With Maggie Gyllenhaal… Read More

Wicked Little Letters review — Bawdy comedy delivers message on misogyny

April 10, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Thea Sharrock | Written by Jonny Sweet | 100 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave A capsule version of this review appeared on the blog during TIFF in September 2023. This picture is a certified crowd pleaser, a whimsical comedic exercise that hides surprising sharp notes. It's set up as a mystery, but then… Read More

The Pale Blue Eye review — Heart of gothic procedural tells a tale

January 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Cooper | Written by Cooper, based on the novel by Louis Bayard | 128 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix Scott Cooper is a director of gritty genre pictures. Some, like the western, Hostiles, deliver a potent brew of desperate characters in an unforgiving setting, while others, like the gangster drama Black Mass,… Read More

Spencer review — Diana’s darkest days

November 8, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Pablo Larraín | Written by Steven Knight | 117 min | Crave Larraín is the Chilean auteur with a gift for compelling biographies of charismatic figures — Jackie and Neruda being two — as well as the kind of versatility to make movies like last year's electrifying Ema. Here he teams up with… Read More

The Party (2017) review — Send your regrets

March 1, 2018 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Sally Potter, with Walter Donohue, story editor | 71 minutes It's not often I actually regret sitting through a movie, given my passion for the medium, but the greatest mercy Sally Potter's The Party bestows on audiences is its brevity, which, in this case, barely approaches the soul of wit. Patricia Clarkson… Read More

Reviews: London Town, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Calvary, London Has Fallen

February 4, 2017 flawintheiris

London Town Directed by Derrick Borte | Written by Matt Brown, based on the screenplay Untitled Joe Strummer Project by Sonya Gildea and Kirsten Sheridan | 92 min | iTunes and VOD Shay Baker (Daniel Huttlestone) is a 14-year-old living in '70s Wanstead, an East London suburb. Dad Nick (Dougray Scott) moves pianos for a… Read More

#AFF2016 — Land Of Mine, My Life So Far, A Man Called Ove, Denial reviews

September 21, 2016 flawintheiris

Land Of Mine (Under Sandet) Written and Directed by Martin Zandvliet | 100 min It was announced the other day that Land of Mine will be the Danish submission for consideration as the Best Foreign Language film at next year's Academy Awards. (So was A Man Called Ove last week declared for Sweden, making today a Scandinavian… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2014: Day Seven, with Mr Turner and a Danish Western!

September 18, 2014 flawintheiris

As much as I'd like to think I have a sense of the hottest movies to see at the AFF, I always miss something stellar. For example, a reliable source told me that Xavier Dolan's Mommy, which screened on Saturday night while I was having dinner with a friend from out of town, was one of the… Read More