Tag Archives: Robert Pattinson

The Batman review — The darkest knight of them all

March 3, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Reeves | Written by Reeves and Peter Craig | 175 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave On the way out of the cinema, I heard a fellow punter say, "Batman was so emo!" In response, her friend said, "Batman's been emo since 1939!" I'm in the sweet spot for this material having read… Read More

Now On Canadian Netflix: January 2020

January 18, 2020 flawintheiris

The Two Popes On the face of it, this strikes me as strange material for Fernando Meirelles to approach. The Brazilian filmmaker responsible for City Of God and The Constant Gardener is a visionary of colour and kinetics, of movement. Why would he choose to tell the story of two senior citizens having a conversation, his… Read More

The Lighthouse review — Gothic, gloomy, and gross

October 23, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Eggers | Written by Robert and Max Eggers | 109 min | On Demand I saw this feature at the closing night screening of the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, and despite the hubbub and festival enthusiasm, the presence of the filmmaker and one of his stars, Willem Dafoe, I didn't much… Read More

#FIN2019 Final Day — Highlights, Random Observations, and The Lighthouse review

September 20, 2019 flawintheiris

While I didn't take in quite as many films as I'd hoped, or may have on other years, I still feel like I got to take a solid bite out of the 2019 FIN Atlantic Film Festival, including seeing many more documentaries than usual. Feature Highlights: Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Arab Blues, Parasite,… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting 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

High Life review — Arty sci-fi lost in space

May 4, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Clare Denis | Written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox, and Nick Laird | 113 min | Netflix Clare Denis leaves behind her colonial concerns and her French language films—her most recent being the diverting Let The Sunshine In—for an English debut set in deep space. To call it retro-futurist would be a… Read More

The Lost City of Z review—A traditional adventure yarn

April 22, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by James Gray | Written by Gray adapting the book by David Grann | 141 min | Amazon Prime A solemn, serious historical drama based on the true story of Percy Fawcett, a British soldier and explorer who in the early years of the 20th Century travelled into the Amazonian jungle on more than… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Post Six — Biopic Tuesday

September 23, 2015 flawintheiris

Life Directed by Anton Corbijn | Written by Luke Davies | 111 min. Though I heard a scoff or two from a fellow #AFF2015-goer when I admitted I was attending the R-Patz drama, it wasn't the former Twilight actor that drew me to the film, it was the director: Corbijn got his start as a… Read More