Category Archives: Comedy

A Man Called Otto review — Grumpy Hanks picture charms despite itself

February 3, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Marc Forster | Written by David Magee, based on the book A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman and the film A Man Called Ove written and directed by Hannes Holm | 126 min | ▲▲▲△△ | In Cinemas The Swedish film from 2016, A Man Called Ove, was a bit of a…Read More

Infinity Pool review — Gleeful bad-trip movie goes off the deep end

January 30, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Brandon Cronenberg | 117 min | ▲▲▲△△ | In Cinemas I'm not the first critic to recognize the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree with the younger Cronenberg, son of David. Consider his first two features — Antiviral and the remarkable Possessor. The son's thematic concerns are similar to…Read More

M3GAN review — Batteries charged for killer doll movie

January 16, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Gerard Johnstone | Written by Akela Cooper and James Wan | 102 min | ▲▲▲△△ | In Cinemas Writer-Producer-Director James Wan has some experience with murderous doll movies, but this isn't any Annabelle picture, this is something quite different. M3GAN, and, yeah, that's a title the producers are bound to regret when they…Read More

Broker review — Easy-going road movie takes the scenic route

January 14, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda | 129 min | ▲▲▲△△ A version of this review was posted in September 2022 from the Toronto International Film Festival. Back in 2019 Hirokazu Koreeda’s Shoplifters got a lot of approbation and awards. It's solid in a lot of ways, and it's overlong and dramatically delicate. This new…Read More

Blonde and Babylon reviews — Two Tinseltown epics, but only one has the goods

December 29, 2022 flawintheiris

Top 10 Under-The-Radar Films of 2022

December 25, 2022 flawintheiris

Happy holidays, FITI readers! I hope whatever your tradition you're getting time off this year to watch some engaging movies. Traditionally, as I assemble my list of the best films of the past 12 months I find I have a number of perhaps lesser-known pictures that don’t quite fit among the ones I most want…Read More

New Christmas Movies chat on the CBC

December 21, 2022 flawintheiris

If you're a regular FITI reader you may have noticed I've been watching more than my fair share of Christmas movies this season, especially the new batch showing up in cinemas and on streaming services. https://halifaxbloggers.ca/holiday-movies/ I was on CBC Information Morning this week discussing a few of these Christmas movies with host Portia…Read More

Top 10 New-To-Me Movies of 2022

December 18, 2022 flawintheiris

A few days ago on the hellscape we all know as Twitter, someone posted a list of the older films they'd discovered this year. Movies from the past they'd never had a chance to see before but had sought out or stumbled upon in the past 12 months and were glad they did. Since I'm…Read More

A Christmas Story Christmas review — Not the same magic, but not bad

December 10, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Clay Kaytis | Written by Kaytis, Nick Schenk, and Peter Billingsley, based on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd | 98 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave If I've said it once I've said it a dozen times, filmmakers attempting to sequelize a classic so many years…Read More

Violent Night review — “Like Die Hard, except a Christmas movie”

December 7, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Tommy Wirkola | Written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller | 112 min | ▲▲△△△ Violent Night is one of the most shoddily made movies I've seen in a long time, a picture so half-baked it's amazing the filmmakers had the nerve to do it. They should count their lucky stars they got…Read More