Category Archives: Comedy

Boss Level review — Groundhog Day as a video-game actioner

July 16, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Carnahan | Written by Carnahan, Chris Borey, and Eddie Borey | 94 min | Amazon Prime When we meet Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo), he's already died and been revived more than 140 times. He's been decapitated, crushed, and knocked into a bus. He's deep into this time loop scenario, so familiar from…Read More

Zola review — A Tweet-fuelled triumph

July 5, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Janicza Bravo | Written by Bravo, Jeremy O Harris, based on Tweets by A'Ziah "Zola" King and an article by David Kushner | 86 min | In Cinemas Lowkey I'm down with a movie that's inspired by something someone wrote on Twitter, but I can't say my expectations walking into Zola were particularly…Read More

F9: The Fast Saga review — Going nowhere fast, sans fury

July 3, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Justin Lin | Written by Lin, Daniel Casey, and Alfredo Botello | 143 min | In Cinemas There was every sign this would be a revvin' good time at the movies. The return of Justin Lin to the drivers' seat, the man who helmed many of the series' best entries: Fast Five, Fast…Read More

Cineplex Cinemas reopen in Nova Scotia… one more time!

June 23, 2021 flawintheiris

...and hopefully this time they'll stay open. We've seen the closing and the opening once or twice in the recent past, but my fingers are crossed the vaccines will mean cinemas and their big-screen delights will remain available to us right through the summer and beyond. Opening this week are a cornucopia of summer-styled sequels…Read More

Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar review — More fun than a freakin’ clam with googley eyes

June 3, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Josh Greenbaum | Written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig | 107 min | Crave Plus Barb and Star is a bonkers comedy about two middle-aged suburbanites who take a trip to the beach community Vista Del Mar, Florida, and have the time of their lives. They then get drawn into a plot…Read More

Cruella review — The de Vil Wears Puppies, or Does She?

May 26, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Craig Gillespie | Screenplay by Dana Fox and Tony McNamara, Story by Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel, and Steve Zissis, based on a novel by Dodie Smith | 134 min | Disney Plus Premium (and in theatres where available) Disney's two-pronged strategy for new feature films — cannibalizing their classic catalogue — has…Read More

Together Together review — Awful and sort of delightful, all at once

May 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Nikole Beckwith | 90 min | TIFF Digital Cinema and On Demand It's a rare thing when I'm struck by such violent ambivalence, but here we are. I found Together Together deeply frustrating while simultaneously being kind of charmed. Hopefully, as I navigate through these conflicting feelings on this post there'll…Read More

Riders of Justice review — The anti-revenge, revenge comedy thriller

May 21, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen | Written by Jensen and Nikolaj Arcel | 116 min | On Demand Veteran Danish filmmaker and screenwriter Jensen delivers a darkly comic movie that also serves as a kind of offhand repost to Hollywood's middle-aged lead revenge thrillers of recent years starring Liam Neeson, Keanu Reeves, and even Bob…Read More

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