Tag Archives: Clark Gregg

Being the Ricardos review — I liked Lucy

December 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin | 131 min | Amazon Prime It's the mid-1950s and comedian Lucille Ball is the biggest thing on TV. Her sitcom I Love Lucy earns 60 million viewers a week. We know this because we're being told as much in the movie by the show's writers, interviewed in a… Read More

Reviews from the Vault: Vol. 2 (Atlantic Film Festival Edition)

August 31, 2015 flawintheiris

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

Labor Day review

February 12, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason ReitmanWritten by Reitman based on the novel by Joyce MaynardWow, this is a tough one to get my head around. Why would Reitman, director of edgy, hip dramedies Young Adult, Up In The Air and Juno, tackle this kind of material? This is a total Hallmark/Lifetime TV movie, described in at least one… Read More

The To Do List review

August 21, 2013 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Maggie CareyOh, the damage to my own innocence from having given up 100 minutes of my life with Tom Cruise and Shelley Long in 1983's Losin' It. The movie belonged to a genre of teen comedy that has very happily gone the way of the dodo: the devirginizing romp. Oh, it still comes… Read More

Much Ado About Nothing review

July 17, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Joss Whedon Adapted for the screen by Whedon from the William Shakespeare play For those who have been suffering from heat exhaustion or the pummelling that accompanies seeing large-budget action movies every week through the summer, this is for you. Delivered by one of those self-same blockbuster directors—though it's pretty hard to imagine… Read More

The Avengers review

May 5, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Joss Whedon Written by Whedon and Zak Penn From the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby I'm at a bit of a loss to describe the scale of this thing, this Avengers movie. It's been in the works for some time, going back to Iron Man and Hulk in 2008.… Read More

Thor review

May 7, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Kenneth Branagh Screenplay by Ashley Miller, Zach Stentz and Don Payne, story by Michael J. Straczynski and Mark Protosevich I've always enjoyed the first weekend in May, when Hollywood traditionally launches its summer blockbuster season. The LA dream-factory does its best to hit the ground running, as it did back on May 2,… Read More