Tag Archives: Tom Hardy

The Bikeriders review — Blood, chrome and gasoline

June 21, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Jeff Nichols | Written by Nichols, based on the book by Danny Lyon | 116 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime I was entirely tempted to give this movie an extra little triangle up there, my highest rating, because it floored me in about a half-dozen ways. It stays at four because it… Read More

Venom: Let There Be Carnage review — That it’s better than the first is no praise at all

October 4, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Andy Serkis | Written by Kelly Marcel and Tom Hardy based on the Marvel Comics character created by David Micheline and Todd McFarlane | 90 min | Netflix Back in 2018 Tom Hardy quieted any naysayers who might dispute his Hollywood stardom. Sure, he'd been in Inception and Mad Max: Fury Road and… Read More

Inception — 10th Anniversary review

August 17, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan | 148 min | Netflix and In Cinemas/IMAX As part of a month-long retrospective look at 10 years of this blog, I’m rewatching a few films from a decade back. I began writing FITI around Labour Day 2010, and though I'd seen Inception by then I never did a… Read More

Capone review — Tom Hardy’s monstrous effort can’t save the film

June 16, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Josh Trank | 103 min | On Demand and Amazon Prime What Pixar did right twice, Josh Trank screwed up majorly, once — telling the story of a family of superheroes. You don't get to direct a massive tentpole movie, then sabotage it via social media on the eve of its… Read More

A Brief History of Spy Movies: Part Three

June 29, 2019 flawintheiris

THE LE CARRÉ ADAPTATIONS In the past two posts I review Harry Palmer movies and a dozen spy pictures from 1966 to 2006. This post is devoted to the film adaptations of the godfather of spy novels. Roger Ebert described John Le Carré’s novels as “chess problems in which one solution is elegant and all… Read More

10 Great Tom Hardy roles

October 26, 2018 flawintheiris

I was listening to a podcast recently looking back at Christopher Nolan's Inception, and the hosts mused about Tom Hardy, what an impact his presence had on the film, and whether this was his breakout role in Hollywood. There's no doubt that even in an ensemble as well-assembled as this, his presence shone. One of the… Read More

Venom review — A brutal misfire that wastes its great cast

October 8, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ruben Fleischer | Written by Jeff Pinker, Scott Rosenberg, and Kelly Marcel, based on the Marvel Comics character created by David Micheline and Todd McFarlane | 112 min | Netflix I bailed out of reading Marvel comics just as Venom became a thing. I recall his arrival as Spider-Man's alien super-suit from Secret… Read More

Dunkirk review — Massive war picture delivers suspense, awe

July 21, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan | 106 min Film writers like me have tended to toss around terms like 'bombastic' when discussing Christopher Nolan's films, but he's the blockbuster filmmaker whose grand-scale work is never less than thoughtful. He tells stories with the confident hand of a master craftsman, exploring intimate themes of identity,… Read More

Top 10 Under-The-Radar films of 2016

January 17, 2017 flawintheiris

As per usual, plenty of the year’s best cinema found their way to us on platforms other than the Cineplex screens, or if they did show at the multiplex, they often came and went relatively unheralded. It’s the fact of Halifax being a small market: Many quality features won’t find distribution in theatres. Here are… Read More

London Road review — Nothing less than the musical reimagined

December 9, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Rufus Norris | Written by Alecky Blythe | 91 min Here's the story: Alecky Blythe interviewed people living in Ipswich, a town in Eastern England, in 2006, just as a serial killer was murdering prostitutes who frequented the area. She took these interviews and, with composer Adam Cork, turned the material into a… Read More