Category Archives: Commentary

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

CTV: Changes to the Academy Awards

August 15, 2018 flawintheiris

In case you missed the hubbub, last week the Academy Awards announced a few changes to their 90-year-old awards show. With TV ratings down, they're looking for ways to boost those numbers and be more relevant to an audience less interested in TV, and perhaps less interested in movies on the big screen. I'm not…Read More

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

August 7, 2018 flawintheiris

If you haven't checked out FLAW IN THE IRIS: THE FILM PODCAST of late, I've got three fresh episodes up now: Brand new: I spoke with Halifax screenwriter and director Mark Palermo on the upper deck of the Central Library about teen movies, and his recollections of co-writing the teen-comedy-horror, Detention. Lisa Buchanan and I…Read More

Three Identical Strangers review — Doc dives deep into nature vs nurture

July 25, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Tim Wardle | 96 min It's a story beggaring belief: in 1980, three 19-year-olds who didn't know each other, David Kellman, Robert Shafran, and Eddie Galland, discovered that they are triplets, separated at birth. Cue an All-American story of minor celebrity, as these three New Yorkers head out on the town, toasted by…Read More

CTV appearance and FLAW IN THE IRIS podcast update

July 12, 2018 flawintheiris

I was on CTV this morning, chatting with Katie Kelly about the season's blockbusters and a delicious piece of summer counter-programming, which is Leave No Trace, opening at Park Lane on Friday. We also shared a chuckle about the new Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson picture, Skyscraper. Go here for the clip. Speaking of other media,…Read More

Podcast ALERT: New LENS ME YOUR EARS and FITI: THE FILM PODCAST episodes

July 4, 2018 flawintheiris

Because I'm always talking about the movies, I have two regular podcasts to tell you about wherein I talk about the movies with other people. One is the podcast that accompanies this very blog, FLAW IN THE IRIS: THE FILM PODCAST. On the current two episodes I chat with Halifax screenwriter Josh MacDonald (The Corridor)…Read More