Tag Archives: Will Poulter

On Swift Horses review — Queer melodrama loses by a nose

April 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Daniel Minahan | Written by Bryce Kass, adapting the book by Shannon Pufahl | 117 min | ▲▲1/2 | Crave This is a deeply romantic drama, one that prefers mystique to grit. Its performers are all fetching, and an elegance in the cinematography makes sure to show them at their most appealing. It… Read More

Warfare review — Bullets, blood, and dust

April 19, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland | 95 min | ▲▲ As I understand it, Ray Mendoza is an American veteran of the Iraq War. On Alex Garland's Civil War, Mendoza was a consultant for the militaristic action sequences. He shared with Garland the story of how in 2006 he and his… Read More

Death of a Unicorn review — Bloody myth goes lame

March 28, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed Alex Scharfman | 107 min | ▲▲ | VOD I really admire the American upstart film studio A24 for investing in talented filmmakers and letting them take big swings. They've done it again here with Alex Scharfman, but the end result is a swing and miss — and that's what sometimes will… Read More

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 review — The best MCU in light years

May 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by James Gunn | 150 min | ▲▲▲▲△ I've gone on the record complaining about the Marvel Studios output in recent years — a distinct drop off from their heady days of the double-whammy: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. They've picked up the slack with the excellent stable of Disney+ series,… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: Summer 2019

July 23, 2019 flawintheiris

To The Bone The first feature directed by Marti Noxon, whose name I’ve always associated with Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She also worked on Sharp Objects, the noirish HBO drama with Amy Adams who played a character with an addiction to self-harm. To The Bone is about Ellen (Lily Collins). She's 20 and anorexic, or… Read More

Midsommar review — Cult horror chills, but misses a bigger picture

July 7, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ari Aster | 147 min | Amazon Prime Ari Aster made a splash in 2018 with his debut feature, the summer creepfest Hereditary, anchored by Toni Collette's full-on performance. In his follow-up he's chosen another terrific actor to be the film's splashy heart, Florence Pugh, and delivered another deeply weird and… Read More

Detroit review — A harrowing look at a troubled time

August 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow | Written by Mark Boal | 143 min Four-and-a-half years since the astonishing Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow and her writing partner Boal return with powerful docudrama about the events that took place before, during, and after what happened at the Algiers Motel in Detroit. It was 50 years ago, the summer of 1967,… Read More