Tag Archives: Tuppence Middleton

Fisherman’s Friends and Fisherman’s Friends: One And All reviews

November 19, 2022 flawintheiris

Fisherman's Friends (2019) | Directed by Chris Foggin | Written by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard, and Piers Ashworth | 112 min | ▲▲▲△△ | On Digital and VOD Welcome to Port Isaac, Cornwall. It's 2010 and the older generation are proud and happy, fisher folk, where the accents are thicker than they are around the… Read More

Downton Abbey: A New Era review — Tied in a bow for fans of the show

May 22, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Simon Curtis | Written by Julian Fellowes | 125 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave Another visit to the late 1920s estate of the aristocratic Crawley family— made so popular in six seasons on ITV and PBS, and more recently rerun on Netflix — seemed unlikely. I know the first feature from 2019, Downton… Read More

Mank review — Fincher’s ode to Old Hollywood is clever, good-looking, and self-aware

November 23, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by David Fincher | Written by Jack Fincher | 131 min | In Cinemas, on Netflix from December 4, 2020 On the face of it, this is an unlikely pairing of filmmaker and subject: The master of the modern, chilly thriller, David Fincher, making a movie about the writing of the Oscar-winning script for… Read More

Possessor Uncut review — Ruthless and brilliant horror sci-fi

October 2, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Brandon Cronenberg | 103 min | Crave Plus Brandon Cronenberg's second feature is a bloody marvel of nightmare fuel. I enjoyed Cronenberg's first, AntiViral, but, like a lot of people, I'm sure, I drew a lazy parallel or two between his work and his well-known, body-horror-loving daddy, the legendary David. This… Read More

The Current War: Director’s Cut review — Electrical history not quite brilliant

June 19, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Written by Michael Mitnick | 108 min | On Demand This is a historical drama with history. The Current War debuted at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival with the whiff of prestige. That's due to the cast, which includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland, and Nicholas Hoult —… Read More

Disappearance at Clifton Hill review — Niagara-set mystery grounded in place

February 27, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Albert Shin | Written by Shin and James Schultz | 100 min | ▲▲▲△△| Netflix You don't see a lot of moody detective stories in the cinema anymore. That's because TV has more or less perfected the genre — a good, twisty script and a star performer is a formula that attracts eyeballs… Read More

Downton Abbey review — TV on the big screen, for better or worse

September 26, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Engler | Written by Julian Fellowes | 122 min | Netflix Television series that make the jump to the big screen usually manifest in one of two ways: they wrap up plot threads that the series wasn't able to knit before the show ended—the Firefly movie Serenity is a good example of… 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

Jupiter Ascending review — Grand space opera missing high notes

February 5, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Lilly and Lana Wachowski The Matrix was released 16 years ago, can you believe that? The filmmaking siblings who delivered that seismic scifi-action depth charge have had their struggles in the years since then, first with the two Matrix sequels, then with Speed Racer. I very much enjoyed their last movie,… Read More