Category Archives: Comedy

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot review — Snoochy disappointments

October 16, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kevin Smith | 95 min The peak of the View Askew-niverse was 20 years ago—let that sink in for a second. In the American indie revolution of the '90s, New Jersey writer-director Kevin Smith was a peer of Quentin Tarantino and Richard Linklater. His movies were instrumental in making comic book…Read More

The Art Of Self-Defence review — The message of modern masculinity

October 9, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Riley Stearns | 104 mins "Never hold back. Not ever. It'll only make you weak, and you can't be weak anymore. Not in the night classes." This is the lesson Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) learns explicitly from the only woman in his karate dojo, Anna (Imogen Poots), and implicitly from his Sensei…Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 10 — A few more very good movies

October 7, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema: The Fall 2019 Season (Part One)

September 27, 2019 flawintheiris

A number of attendees at FIN Atlantic Film Festival recognized me in the halls of the Park Lane Cineplex last week, and it was largely because of my volunteer time at Carbon Arc Cinema, Siloën Daley's film series that runs through the fall and winter at the Museum of Natural History screening room on Summer…Read More

#FIN2019 Day Five — Sometimes Always Never review

September 17, 2019 flawintheiris

Sometimes Always Never Years from now, we'll look back on the work of Bill Nighy and recognize him a unique performer whose work is a gift (if we don't do that already). Sometimes Always Never finds him in excellent form in a genuinely odd comedy-drama, written by frequent Michael Winterbottom collaborator, Frank Cottrell Boyce, and deeply…Read More

#FIN2019 Day Three — Arab Blues, Parasite reviews

September 15, 2019 flawintheiris

Arab Blues (Un Divan a Tunis) A tart surprise, biting into this satiric comedy, one that made me wonder what the Tunisian authorities thought of it. I gather the film was largely financed in France. Selma (Golshifteh Farahani of Paterson and Rosewater) was born in Tunisia but raised in Paris. Now a psychotherapist, she comes…Read More

FIN Atlantic International Film Festival 2019 PREVIEW

September 12, 2019 flawintheiris

As we all brush ourselves off from Dorian, it's a good time to remind ourselves of what's really useful about electricity. We can use it to watch film, and for Halifax film lovers, this time of year is all about FIN Atlantic International Film Festival. On this post please find a few advance reviews of…Read More

Good Boys review — Raunchy, rude, and rarely funny

September 3, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Gene Stupnitsky | Written by Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg | 89 min I was willing to give Good Boys the benefit of the doubt at least partly due to the inclusion of Will Forte and Molly Gordon in the cast, and DJ Shadow and Run The Jewels on the soundtrack, all who were…Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 8 — Comedies

August 28, 2019 flawintheiris

Second Viewing: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood review

August 26, 2019 flawintheiris

I love it when people have a lot of opinions on a movie, especially when that movie is original material that genuinely catches the interest of the moviegoing public. The new Quentin Tarantino picture has topped $100 million domestically with much more coming from the international box office—it's a solid global hit in a summer…Read More