Category Archives: Commentary

Furiosa goes to camera (starring Anya Taylor-Joy)

June 23, 2022 flawintheiris

I don't usually write about the start of production of forthcoming films... hell, I barely bother mentioning new trailers for movies because social media does that so well why go to the trouble? But given Mad Max: Fury Road was one of the greatest movies of the past 10 years, I wanted to flag, with…Read More

FLAW IN THE IRIS visits London!

June 15, 2022 flawintheiris

In May I spent almost three weeks in London, one of my favourite cities in the world. I first visited when I was a kid, and then lived there as a teenager, finishing high school at an American international school. London turned me into a genuine film lover, the cinemas of the West End offering…Read More

LENS ME YOUR EARS: March Update

March 24, 2022 flawintheiris

New episodes of the film podcast I co-host with Stephen Cooke, LENS ME YOUR EARS, have been arriving regularly every two weeks or so since the start of the year. Here's what we've been up to: Our most recent episode is a look at the work of David Koepp, a Hollywood insider and wildly successful…Read More

A little FITI housekeeping…

March 6, 2022 flawintheiris

Hello new and regular visitors to Flaw In The Iris. Thank you for stopping by. If you've been checking out my reviews for awhile, you'll notice new banners rotating at the top of the page. Though the name of the blog is inspired by a line of dialogue from Chinatown, and the image of Jack…Read More

Academy Award Nominations #Reaction

February 9, 2022 flawintheiris

The nominations for the '22 Academy Awards dropped on Tuesday morning, and as with every Hollywood awards season there were expectations met and expectations dashed. There's also the few naysayers who took to social media to say these awards are antiquated and irrelevant. They groused. They whined. They said, "Who cares?" That question's been asked…Read More

Why I’m still going to the movies

January 23, 2022 flawintheiris

On Thursday my schedule allowed a matinee of the new Scream movie out at Bayers Lake. I went to the 12:35pm show. I had a look at the seat map on the Cineplex site before I left home. An hour before the screening time I could see the whole auditorium was free. By the time…Read More

311 films in 2021

January 1, 2022 flawintheiris

Happy New Year! I wish I could share my Top 10 of 2021, but it isn't quite ready yet. Soon! (Here's my alternative list, ICYMI.) For New Year's Day I'm doing something new on FITI. Inspired by an Instagram post from Edgar Wright, where he listed all the films he watched in 2021, I thought…Read More

LENS ME YOUR EARS takes on #Noirvember (and other episodes!)

December 1, 2021 flawintheiris

In what's becoming an epic project — 135 episodes and counting — Stephen Cooke and I have finally done a Noirvember episode of LENS ME YOUR EARS. That's our film podcast, where we watch something new — usually — in cinemas or on a streaming service and compare and contrast it with older films. In…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

LENS ME YOUR EARS September Update

September 10, 2021 flawintheiris

If you're new to this blog, you may not be aware I also cohost a podcast about movies. I do it with award-winning Halifax arts journalist and all-around living cinema encyclopedia, Stephen Cooke. It's called Lens Me Your Ears, and here's what we've been up to lately: LMYE Episode #129: Marion Bright - The Career…Read More