Atlantic Film Festival 2013: Something About Cultural Cliches…

September 13, 2013 flawintheiris

Had an interesting conversation today with a friend—also a Come From Away (CFA) like me—and it got me thinking about the cultural mythmaking present in The Grand Seduction. The film is a remake of a film from Quebec, but there are particulars included in the English-language version I don't remember in the original. For instance,…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2013 Day 1: Paddle To The Ocean, The Grand Seduction and the Gala bash

September 13, 2013 flawintheiris

Though the Gala Opening movie is The Grand Seduction, Don McKellar's new picture, the first film of the festival I took in was Paddle To The Ocean, which shows on Friday at 4:30pm as part of Atlantic Shorts 1. I found it to be the perfect get-feet-wet (see what I did there?) entry for the…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2013: Here We Go

September 12, 2013 flawintheiris

The Atlantic Film Festival, running from today, September 12, through September 19, is a joyous time. I love all of it, but mostly the energy in the moments before the screening starts, or in the line-ups outside. "Are we about to see something life-changing tonight?" is always the question. The AFF has provided me with first-time…Read More

The World’s End review

September 12, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Edgar Wright | Written by Wright and Simon Pegg | 109 min | On Demand You nerds know this: The World's End is the third and final film in Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, all made with buddies Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The thematic thread is pretty thin, but basically these three British guys…Read More

In A World… review

September 8, 2013 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Lake BellA lovely indie from writer/director/actor Lake Bell, In A World... manages to make a few very coherent and political points about women in Hollywood while telling a feather-light story set in the moribund romantic comedy genre. When you think about it, achieving all that is kind of a wonder.Bell is…Read More

Summer of 2013 in Review

September 4, 2013 flawintheiris

This wasn't a summer that awed me at the multiplex. There were a few solid slabs of cinema, a few pleasant surprises, a few real disappointments, and, as usual, movies that sort of came and went, almost leaving my consciousness before I even exited the movie houses' air-conditioned foyers. Fortunately, I was able to reignite a few…Read More