Category Archives: Comedy

#AFF2016 — Women Who Kill, L’Avenir (Things To Come) reviews

September 19, 2016 flawintheiris

Women Who Kill Written and Directed by Ingrid Jungermann | 93 min Morgan (writer/director Jungermann) and Jean (Ann Carr) are ex-lovers who co-host a podcast about female serial killers and live together in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Their morbid fascination with ladies who deal death isn't entirely explained, but it does bind them together in ways…Read More

#AFF2016 — Moonlight, Toni Erdmann reviews

September 17, 2016 flawintheiris

Moonlight Directed by Barry Jenkins | Written by Jenkins and Tarell McCraney | 110 min The story of a boy who becomes a teen who becomes a man, but this isn't a coming-of-age movie. It's a cultural snapshot in three chapters. Little (Alex R. Hibbert) is a black boy living in Miami. He's beaten up…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2016 Preview

September 15, 2016 flawintheiris

Here we are again, that moment in September when Halifax goes movie crazy. I've been attending The Atlantic Film Festival since 2003. That year the festival programmers screened some of the biggest and most beloved films of the year (Lost In Translation) along with the obscure, but no less delightful, gems ( such as Wilbur Wants To…Read More

Sausage Party review — Mayhem with Munchies

August 25, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon | Written by Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg, with the story by Rogen, Goldberg, and Jonah Hill | 89 min | ▲▲▲△△ Rarely, if ever, have I seen a movie that felt more like the product of a bunch of dudes sitting around, getting really…Read More

Florence Foster Jenkins review — Streep and Grant in harmony

August 15, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Stephen Frears | Written by Nicholas Martin | 110 min | on Netflix Meryl Streep once again essays a huge, picture-dominating role with a musical flavour—though a major left turn from last year's Ricki And The Flash. This time it's the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy New York socialite who, in 1944, managed to…Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie review — It’s Sweet, Sweetie Darling

August 3, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Mandie Fletcher | Written by Jennifer Saunders | 91 min | ▲▲▲▲△ It's been a summer of managed expectations. Most of the blockbusters haven't delivered on their promise, instead serving up some variation on grim, vacuous, or just-OK entertainment. This has a lot to do with why I so enjoyed the big screen debut…Read More

Café Society review — Woody in a Wistful Mood

July 28, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Woody Allen | 96 min | Amazon Prime |▲▲▲△△ "Until, one day out hunting, she mistook him for a deer." That line's got great bite, maybe the best in the whole picture, a fleeting moment of Woody Allen's wit at its sharpest—though, granted, some context will help with getting the laugh if…Read More

Ghostbusters (2016) review — A Familiar Scare

July 15, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Paul Feig | Written Feig, Katie Dippold, based on Ghostbusters (1984), written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis | 116 min | ▲▲▲△△ I always enjoyed the original Ghostbusters when it showed up on TV. For years it was inescapable, and as a result has become one of those universally beloved films from the…Read More

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates review — Gals Before Bros

July 9, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Jake Szymanski | Written by Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien | 98 min | ▲▲▲△△ Oh, bro comedy, how I'm sick of thee. I don't have anything personally against Seth Rogen, James Franco, or even Judd Apatow, but what you have wrought?! Endless sexist slapstickery. What drew me to this feature wasn't the…Read More

Swiss Army Man review — Love, Death, and Farting

July 7, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Daniels (Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan) | 97 min | ▲▲▲△△ One genuinely positive thing I'll say about what we've seen at the multiplex in 2016—there've been some peculiar outliers. I'm thinking about The Neon Demon and The Lobster when I say that, and Swiss Army Man can join those films in being deliriously…Read More