Category Archives: The Top 10

And so it begins: Awards Season 2016-2017 aka List Season

December 5, 2016 flawintheiris

On Sunday the Los Angeles Film Critics gave out awards to their picks for the best films of the year. You can check out the complete list of winners here. The films that got the most love were Moonlight (currently at Park Lane in Halifax) and La La Land, Damien Chazelle's follow-up to Whiplash. It will open in…Read More

Top 10 of 2015

January 10, 2016 flawintheiris

Thanks for checking out my list of the best movies of 2015. It's taken me a little while to feel confident assembling this list, but having now seen late arrivals The Hateful Eight and The Revenant, I'm gonna commit. I may to add a couple more to the list if Anomalisa and 45 Days are as good as…Read More

10 Best Under-the-Radar Films of 2015

December 31, 2015 flawintheiris

As I mentioned the other day in my look back at 2015 in the cinema, my Top 10 of 2015 will be coming soon, once I've caught up on a few more pictures. In the meantime, here's another list to consider. As per usual, plenty of the year's best cinema found their way to us on…Read More

Top 10 of 2005 and 2006

August 24, 2015 flawintheiris

In a couple weeks this blog will be five years old. Accordingly, through the coming fortnight I'm gonna be taking a few looks back. As I've done before, I've stumbled upon some material from the vaults: My list of the best movies of 2005 and 2006, a list I put together for my four year movie broadcast…Read More

10 Great Movies for Canadian Film Day

April 28, 2015 flawintheiris

It's National Canadian Film Day. This is a great initiative to encourage more people to watch and value Canadian movies. It's important, especially now when our politicians are looking to disembowel the industries that create these stories. If we want them, we have to fight for them. We have to shout about how they're important…Read More

The Best of 2014 — Honourable and Dishonourable Mentions

January 11, 2015 flawintheiris

I can never restrict my list of the year's best movies to just a handful. I love movies too much for that. There are always a few extra that didn't quite fit, though this additional list often features the more quirky, and, therefore, maybe more interesting films. Here are films I really enjoyed but for one…Read More

The Best of 2014 — The Top 10 (scratch that: 13) Movies of the Year

January 11, 2015 flawintheiris

I really struggled to choose a single film from 2014 that stood above the others. A short list of about three kept shifting and wouldn't settle. So, as the deadline approached, I decided the most honest thing to do was simply to provide an alphabetical list of films I thought were the best of the…Read More

CTV Morning Live: January 9, 2015 — Best of 2014 preview

January 9, 2015 flawintheiris

The ever effervescent Heidi Petracek kindly invited me to be on CTV again this morning where we discussed my long-gestating Best of 2014 list. In past years I've called it my Top 10 list, but this year it looks to be longer than 10. It's also alphabetized because I couldn't manage to pick one best…Read More

In Cinemas. Friday, January 9, 2015 — Inherent Vice, Selma, Taken 3, and the deal with my Best of 2014 list

January 8, 2015 flawintheiris

I've been totally procrastinating releasing my Best of 2014 list, but I feel like I have a decent excuse: I live in Halifax. Many of the movies I've seen shown up on the lists of movie writers living elsewhere have yet to open here. These are movies that were released last year but are released…Read More

Honourable Mentions, Good Times and Dishonourable Mentions: 2013

January 5, 2014 flawintheiris

Adele Exarchopoloulos and Léa Seydoux from Blue Is The Warmest ColorI recently provided a list of what I consider the Top 10 movies of 2013. Because it was such an excellent year in movies, it was a tough list to make. For fun, please find below an accompanying collection of films that might have made the best…Read More