Lamb review — Ewe may be surprised

October 14, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson | Written by Jóhannsson and Sjón | 106 min | In Cinemas Lamb is distributed in North America by A24, the American company that's defined itself in the marketplace with stellar indies and horror films, amongst them Midsommar, Hereditary, The Lighthouse, and Ladybird. The trailer for this picture suggested it leans…Read More

Bergman Island review — Summer sonata times two

October 13, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve | 112 min | Two screenings at Carbon Arc Cinema on Friday, October 15 As a FYI for new readers, I help program films at Carbon Arc Cinema in Halifax. The cinema offers tickets and screenings through their website and in person through fall and winter seasons (in non-pandemic…Read More

Night Raiders review — Indigenous science-fiction channels the real world

October 12, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Danis Goulet | 97 min | In Cinemas Niska (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) and her daughter, Waseese (Brooklyn Letexier-Hart), live out in the woods in a converted bus. While hunting Waseese injures her ankle. It's especially bad timing as later that evening they're detected by a hunter drone and have to go on…Read More

Who should play Bond? Or should we be asking another question?

October 11, 2021 flawintheiris

This has been the weekend of James Bond 007, with No Time To Die opening wide in North America and our screens full of ads, trailers, interviews with the stars, and reviews — including mine. I also took a look back at Daniel Craig's run in the role. The internet cottage industry built on the…Read More

No Time To Die review — Daniel Craig’s final Bond is grand… until it isn’t

October 9, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga | Written by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga, and Phoebe Waller Bridge, based on characters by Ian Fleming | 163 min | In Cinemas It's finally here after more than a year of…Read More

A look back at James Bond 007: the Daniel Craig Era (up to No Time To Die)

October 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Daniel Craig arrived with a flourish typical of a new Bond at a press conference on the banks of the Thames. The actor had proclaimed his tough guy credentials in a zippy crime drama called Layer Cake, and looked comfortable with props (like guns) in Munich, but seemed far from a shoo-in for the role…Read More

The Eyes of Tammy Faye review — Biopic mixes satire and soap with uneven results

October 5, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Showalter | Written by Abe Sylvia, based on the documentary by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato | 126 min | In Cinemas My memories of Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker come from TV in the late '80s and early '90s, where if you turned on the box late at night or on…Read More

Venom: Let There Be Carnage review — That it’s better than the first is no praise at all

October 4, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Andy Serkis | Written by Kelly Marcel and Tom Hardy based on the Marvel Comics character created by David Micheline and Todd McFarlane | 90 min | In Cinemas Back in 2018 Tom Hardy quieted any naysayers who might dispute his Hollywood stardom. Sure, he'd been in Inception and Mad Max: Fury Road…Read More

The Guilty (2021) review — A passable, if inessential, remake

September 28, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine Fuqua | Written by Nic Pizzolatto, based on the original screenplay by Gustav Möller and Emil Nygaard Albertsen | 90 min | Netflix I've read that Jake Gyllenhaal was a big fan of the Danish original, and so given the chance to remake it brought Training Day filmmaker Antoine Fuqua on board.…Read More

Copshop review — B-movie siege thriller hits every target

September 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Carnahan | Written by Carnahan, Kurt McLeod, and Mark Williams | 107 min | In Cinemas Action director Carnahan is on a bit of a roll given his last picture, time-loop thriller Boss Level, was quite a bit of fun. This time out he reteams with Frank Grillo for a picture that is…Read More