Category Archives: Commentary

LENS ME YOUR EARS podcast update, and Carbon Arc Cinema is back!

March 28, 2019 flawintheiris

Stephen Cooke and I have been getting together every fortnight to see and review new movies in cinemas and talk about older ones that relate by genre or filmmaker—that's basically the mandate of our podcast, LENS ME YOUR EARS. We also mess with the mandate from time to time, but movies are always on our…Read More

10 Pieces of Music Inseparable From a Movie

March 4, 2019 flawintheiris

This post is borne out of a conversation that came up between friends some time ago, about the how some pre-existing songs have been used so successfully in film to make them forever joined with said film in my mind and heart. In some cases it's because the picture introduced me to the song, or…Read More

The Halifax Black Film Festival, Carbon Arc, and a podcast update

February 28, 2019 flawintheiris

Film festival alert! Running from Friday, March 1, to Sunday, March 3, is the third edition of the Halifax Black Film Festival. It was founded by Fabienne Colas, who started similar festivals in Toronto and Montreal. This one's been growing, and this year there'll be screenings, workshops, and programs at multiple venues in Halifax. The opening…Read More

Podcast Update! LENS ME YOUR EARS and FITI: THE FILM PODCAST

February 12, 2019 flawintheiris

The sporadic episodes of FLAW IN THE IRIS: THE FILM PODCAST continue, with a brand new one appearing this weekend as if out of nowhere! In this episode I speak to blogger Hillary Titley about her dry, satiric look at erotic thrillers of the 1980s and 1990s. Go here to find Episode #32 on Apple Podcasts,…Read More

FITI: THE FILM PODCAST, CTV, and LENS ME YOUR EARS update!

December 20, 2018 flawintheiris

So, it's no secret, regular readers and listeners, that I've let my FLAW IN THE IRIS: THE FILM PODCAST go a little quiet recently. But I'm here to tell you it's back—at least for now—with three new episodes! I wanted to connect with fellow cinephiles here in Halifax who go to trouble of putting together…Read More

Fall 2018 Film Preview and another CTV Appearance!

October 24, 2018 flawintheiris

The good folks at CTV invited me on this past weekend to chat with Bruce Frisko about what we can expect from new Hollywood releases in the coming weeks and months leading up to the end of December. I chose a few titles I'm excited to see. We sped through 10 movies pretty quickly. I'll…Read More

THE FILM PODCAST new episode, CTV, and Carbon Arc Cinema is back

October 11, 2018 flawintheiris

For listeners to my semi-regular podcast, it hasn't been even semi since mid-August, and that's all on me. The prep for the script pitch and seeing films at the Atlantic International Film Festival swallowed all my time that wasn't spent earning a living, and then I got that season-changing cold. But I have managed to…Read More

Burt Reynolds’ Best on LENS ME YOUR EARS

October 3, 2018 flawintheiris

This week's episode of the podcast I do with Stephen Cooke, LENS ME YOUR EARS, is about Burt Reynolds, who died recently. Stephen and I are of the generation where Reynolds was one of the first movie stars either of us got to know, whose work left a big impact on our childhood moviegoing. Stephen…Read More

Fahrenheit 11/9 review — Moore of the same

September 27, 2018 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Michael Moore | 128 min As a centrist Canadian-Dane, I'd make a radical Yank, and so frequently find myself in Michael Moore's political wheelhouse. I'm concerned about many of the same things he's concerned about, and I tend to agree with him on the ways these socio-political problems need to be…Read More

#FIN2018 and the LENS ME YOUR EARS podcast!

September 19, 2018 flawintheiris

Stephen Cooke and I got together on Monday to discuss FIN Atlantic International Film Festival in midstream on LENS ME YOUR EARS, our film podcast, including a number of the titles I mentioned here, like Love, Scott, plus others that Stephen has seen that I missed due to the Screenwriting Program I was in at…Read More