Category Archives: Comedy

Adult Adoption review — The Queen of Twee

June 4, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Karen Knox | Written by Ellie Moon | 90 min | ▲▲△△△ | on Digital and VOD I have to say off the top I'm not a fan of indie quirk, nor am I of the shaky-cam. It hasn't been a good thing in feature films since Dogme 95. I understand it though…Read More

You Hurt My Feelings review — The truth may hurt, but the movie’s hysterical

May 26, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Nicole Holofcener | 93 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | In Cinemas Someone in a movie once said it's hard to get through the day without a juicy rationalization. The same can be said for a white lie. Where would we be if we had to be 100% honest with the people around…Read More

The Tender Bar review — A writer grows up in the “good ol’ days”

May 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by George Clooney | Written by William Monahan and J.R. Moehringer | 106 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime A shaggy dog story like this doesn't get made too often. I have to assume its existence has a lot to do with the heft George Clooney can swing in the industry as a filmmaker.…Read More

BlackBerry review — Glitchy software scuppers tech comedy

May 11, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Johnson | Written by Johnson with Matthew Miller, from a book by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff | 119 min | ▲▲△△△ BlackBerry has the distinct disadvantage of being the third movie this season serving as a biography of a product. The first two were the entertaining 1980s international caper Tetris, about…Read More

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. review — Legendary YA novel finally arrives on the big screen

May 8, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig | Written by Craig, adapting the book by Judy Blume | 106 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | In Cinemas I'm of the generation that grew up, unfortunately, with stuff that was for boys and stuff that was for girls, and Judy Blume was definitely for girls. I was told in no…Read More

Beau Is Afraid review — An epic, shame-filled odyssey

May 7, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ari Aster | 179 min | ▲▲▲△△ This is the most polarizing film of the season — it arrived with a deluge of negative reaction on social media from the Asterphiles hoping for another Hereditary or Midsommar, followed by more muted, but largely positive, critical response. I come down somewhere in…Read More

Polite Society review — Not polite about kicking ass!

May 6, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Nida Manzoor | 103 min | ▲▲▲▲△ When I saw the amazing Rye Lane on Disney+ last month, I would not have predicted another comedy coming out of a London suburban immigrant enclave would knock my socks off, but here we are. With this film what we have is less a…Read More

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 review — The best MCU in light years

May 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by James Gunn | 150 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | In Cinemas I've gone on the record complaining about the Marvel Studios output in recent years — a distinct drop off from their heady days of the double-whammy: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. They've picked up the slack with the excellent stable…Read More

Ghosted review — Abysmal action-comedy schlock

April 24, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Dexter Fletcher | Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Chris McKenna, and Erik Sommers | 116 min | ▲△△△△ | Apple TV+ I was pretty sure this was gonna be a difficult watch when someone says, "I think she might be the one!" It’s a line by Chris Evans' character early on in…Read More

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre review — Fizzy action cocktail, hold the caring

April 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Guy Ritchie | Written by Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies | 114 min | ▲▲△△△ | Amazon Prime The painful and much postponed journey of this action comedy from bad boy Brit director Guy Ritchie to the (small) screen might make for a more entertaining picture than this one. Apparently, this awkwardly…Read More