Category Archives: Academy Awards

On the Canadian Screen Awards 2026

June 1, 2026 flawintheiris

On Friday I chatted with Toronto culture commentator and reviewer Rad Simonpillai on CBC Mainstreet here in Halifax about the Canadian Screen Awards. He went into detail about why this year was an interesting step toward further relevance for the Canadian version of the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Emmys. You won't be able to…Read More

The Knox Office: Honey Bunch, Mercy, The Voice of Hind Rajab, and the Oscar nominations

January 25, 2026 flawintheiris

On Friday morning I sat down with CBC Information Morning guest host Preston Mulligan to talk movies, including the truly abysmal, the ill-advised but stylish genre effort, and the powerfully good... before offering a few thoughts on the Academy Award nominations. Click here to give it a listen. Read More

The Knox Office: Predictions and Favourites at the Golden Globes

January 9, 2026 flawintheiris

Sunday evening is the Golden Globes, a Hollywood event that's slowly emerging from a recent history of scandal to be a real stop on the winter awards circuit, as the big stars congratulate each other for their hard work. On Friday morning I chatted with Portia Clark about the frontrunners for the awards, my personal…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: The Teachers’ Lounge

February 21, 2024 flawintheiris

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, whose mandate is to show the best in Canadian, international and documentary film. I’m part of a group of programmers who choose what we screen. Directed by Ilker Çatak | Written by Çatak and Johannes Duncker | 98 min | Now on Crave An idealistic young…Read More

The Knox Office: Lesser-known Oscar nominees

February 4, 2024 flawintheiris

ICYMI I reopened The Knox Office on Friday — that's my column on CBC Information Morning with Portia Clark. Portia and I did a brief overview of some of the Academy Award nomination hubbub from the past couple of weeks before I talked about some of the nominees I'd only recently caught up with, ones…Read More

El Conde review — Gothic comedy doesn’t suck

January 31, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Pablo Larraín | Written by Larraín and Guillermo Calderón | 110 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín has directed some of the most fascinating, most diverse films of the past 10 or so years — The Club, Neruda, Jackie, Ema, and Spencer — and to that stellar collection he now…Read More

Nimona review — Fantastic animated adventure deserves a wide audience

January 31, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane | Written by Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor, based on a graphic novel by ND Stevenson |101 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix First off, kudos to the world-building in this energetic animated adventure. Imagine a medieval Blade Runner 2049 and you're halfway there — a city of…Read More

To Kill A Tiger review — A fierce fight for justice

January 30, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Nisha Pahuja | 125 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | National Film Board of Canada To Kill A Tiger is a surprise Academy Award-nominee for Best Documentary from Toronto-based filmmaker Nisha Pahuja, with Mindy Kaling and Dev Patel on board as Executive Producers. The film takes us to a village in Jharkhand, India,…Read More

The Zone Of Interest review — Next door to hell

January 29, 2024 flawintheiris

A capsule version of this review appeared on FITI during my coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2023. Written and Directed by Jonathan Glazer, adapting a novel by Martin Amis | 105 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ Hedwig and Rudolf Höss (Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel) are a German couple with a passel of…Read More

Oscar Talk with Portia Clark on The Knox Office!

March 11, 2023 flawintheiris

This week my film column on CBC, The Knox Office, goes into a few of the 2023 Academy Award nominations in advance of Sunday evening's ceremony. If you're interested in my takes on the acting nods, the writing awards, director and picture, click here or copy and paste this url into a browser: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-27-information-morning-ns/clip/15971359-the-knox-office-its-oscar-weekend Full…Read More