Tag Archives: Taraji P. Henson

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

Hidden Figures review — Cliched drama grounds important story

January 11, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Theodore Melfi | Written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, adapting a book by Margot Lee Shetterly | 127 min A few weeks ago I took in the Jeff Nichols drama Loving, the true story about the fight for civil rights and social justice in the '60s in rural Virginia. It's about an interracial couple… Read More

The Gift review — Throwback with a sting

August 6, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Joel Edgerton One might say the domestic thriller has gone out of fashion since its 1990s heyday, but that's not entirely true. There was the Idris Elba/Taraji P. Henson picture No Good Deed, and the Jennifer Lopez drama The Boy Next Door. Halle Berry has made a couple, too. They're often morality… Read More