Downsizing review — Bigger and more peculiar than it sounds

January 4, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Alexander Payne | Written by Payne and Jim Taylor | 135 min It may be the prestige season's least-buzzed feature, but Alexander Payne, an award-winner for his wry, humanist dramedies (Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska) has delivered a film that skews contrary to its marketing and to audience expectations. Don't let that put you…Read More

All The Money In The World review — Plummer impresses, the film doesn’t

January 3, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by David Scarpa, based on a book by John Pearson | 132 min My LENS ME YOUR EARS podcast co-host Stephen Cooke and I discovered in a recent look at the films of Ridley Scott that the man's feature-film work going back to The Duellists (1977) is a catalogue…Read More

Molly’s Game review — Sorkin goes all in, but he’s got a tell

January 2, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Aaron Sorkin | Written by Sorkin, adapting the book by Molly Bloom | 140 min | Netflix At his best, Sorkin's words have a knack of making you feel smarter by listening to them. They zip, they zing, they inform, entertain, and surprise. We all felt it in A Few Good Men, Sportsnight,…Read More

Happy 2018! Here’s a new film PODCAST!

January 2, 2018 flawintheiris

I figure the best way to embrace a new year is to have more conversations about film. This blog started that way, back in 2010, with guest writers contributing to the content. While the blog has become almost exclusively about film reviews, and all from one voice, I know a lot of passionate, committed film…Read More

The Top 10 Films of 2017

January 1, 2018 flawintheiris

The frustrations of living in a small market like Halifax is not having the opportunity to see much-buzzed about late-in-the-year feature films until January. Last year it was 20th Century Women, a film that arrived in cinemas in mid-January that would've certainly been on my 2016 list. So, due to my not having seen them…Read More