Category Archives: Comedy

About Endlessness review — Droll, melancholy anthology concludes Swedish filmmaker’s career

May 17, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Roy Andersson | 78 min | Carbon Arc Cinema Before watching About Endlessness I knew about the work of this Swedish auteur mostly by his festival features like Songs From The Second Floor and A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting on Existence, films that never got theatrical distribution here and…Read More

Perfumes aka Les Parfums review — A rose by any other name

April 30, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Grégory Magne | 100 min | Carbon Arc Cinema A sweet, if slight, French dramedy about Anne Walberg (Emmanuelle Devos), who is a "nose" — she's a former perfume maker with a gifted schnoz — and Guillaume Favre (writer-director Magne), a chauffeur desperate to hang on to his job so he…Read More

Coming To America/Coming 2 America reviews — Eddie Murphy goes back to Zamunda

April 11, 2021 flawintheiris

Coming To America (1988) | Directed by John Landis | Written by Eddie Murphy, David Sheffield, and Barry W Blaustein | 117 min | Amazon Prime I was a fan of Eddie Murphy when I was a teenager, and so I went to see this hit comedy when it opened in cinemas — and it…Read More

French Exit review — Pfeiffer impresses throughout, the movie occasionally

April 4, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Azazel Jacobs | Written by Patrick DeWitt, based on his book | 113 min | In Cinemas An Irish-Canadian co-pro, which explains the Canadian novelist writing the thing, and the presence of veteran Canuck thespian Susan Coyne in a key role, French Exit is a comedy soufflé of sorts — equal parts droll chamber…Read More

Moxie review — Well-meaning teen movie, if a bit too neat

March 16, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Amy Poehler | Written by Tamara Chestna and Dylan Meyer, from the novel by Jennifer Mathieu | 111 min | Netflix Vivian (Hadley Robinson) is a junior at Rockport High School. She's an INTJ — Myers-Briggs for introvert — along with her lifelong pal, Claudia (Lauren Tsai). Vivian is also pissed off at…Read More

Death of a Ladies’ Man review — In love we disappear

March 12, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Bissonnette | Written by Bissonnette, with Bobby Theodore as story consultant | 100 min | On Demand McGill professor Samuel O'Shea (Gabriel Byrne, increasingly grizzled at almost 70) arrives home one afternoon to discover his wife, Linda (Carolina Bartczak), fucking another guy. Upset, he goes back to his first love, whiskey, and…Read More

I Care A Lot review — Crime comedy full of wonderfully loathsome people

March 2, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by J Blakeson | 118 min | Amazon Prime in Canada Marla Grayson is a terrible person. I mean, one of the worst ever in a feature film. I'd put her up there with the dude who eats people in Silence Of The Lambs, both bad lieutenants, any Sith Lord you'd care to…Read More

Lapsis review — Amusing sci-fi satire connects

March 1, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Noah Hutton | 108 min | Carbon Arc Cinema A deliciously grim tech comedy, Lapsis imagines a near future — which is today, let's face it — where grunt workers who labour for a massive computer conglomerate compete against each other, and automatons, by stringing cables through the woods between cube…Read More

Roald Dahl’s The Witches review — Hathaway best thing in creepy kids comedy

February 13, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Zemeckis | Written by Zemeckis, Kenya Barris, and Guillermo del Toro, based on the book by Roald Dahl | 106 min | In Cinemas and On Demand Back in 1990 an adaptation of this Dahl book was made by the legendary Nicolas Roeg, starring Anjelica Huston. I haven't seen it, but I…Read More

20 Best Movies on Canadian Netflix (from the 20th Century)

February 8, 2021 flawintheiris

I don't think this is a secret: Netflix doesn't carry a deep library of quality older cinema. Most folks looking to a streaming service for a classic movie are probably better off subscribing to Amazon Prime — a lot to enjoy there — or the Criterion Channel. (I'd also recommend a look at the library…Read More