Category Archives: Crime

Secret In Their Eyes review — Moody crime remake missing original’s flavours

November 23, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Billy Ray | Screenplay by Billy Ray, adapting The Secret In Their Eyesscreenplay by Juan José Campanella and Eduardo Sacheri | 111 min A warning: Foreknowledge of the Argentine Oscar-winning drama may diminish one's appreciation of this Hollywood remake. But those who have seen the original—here absent the title's definitive article, but otherwise…Read More

Beeba Boys review — The Suits Are Magic

October 15, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Deepa Mehta | 103 min Jeet Johar (Randeep Hooda) is a bit of a folk hero and leader in the Vancouver Indo-Canadian community. He's also a gangster, with a posse of five well-groomed, well-dressed henchmen rolling for him, killing people who encroach on his territory. Keen to join the crew is Nep…Read More

Black Mass review — Ordinary Gangster

September 26, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Cooper | Written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, based on the book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill | 122 min. Let's talk about Joel Edgerton for a second. He's proven himself a capable character actor in films like Warrior and The Great Gatsby, and this summer he directed a reasonably impressive…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Post Five — I hit the wall

September 22, 2015 flawintheiris

I had big plans for making Day 5 at the AFF a three feature day, but I couldn't do it. I think I'm still recovering from yesterday's movie marathon, and the emotional depth charge that was Room. Despite the appeal of Ethan Hawke and his trumpet skills, the serious draw of an Icelandic goat drama,…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Fourth Post — Reviews of Room, Victoria, and The Stanford Prison Experiment. + AFF Awards

September 21, 2015 flawintheiris

It's the end of a 14-hour day at the film festival, but I have to write a few words about Room, which I got out of less than an hour ago. As I mentioned on Twitter, it'll be a hell of a year at the movies if I see anything else as powerful. I had a feeling…Read More

Reviews From The Vault: Vol. 1

August 27, 2015 flawintheiris

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called 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

Reviews: Assassin, Copenhagen, Night Train To Lisbon, Son Of A Gun, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her

July 9, 2015 flawintheiris

And now for some recent releases on VOD, iTunes, Netflix, Blu-Ray and the like. Assassin A London hitman named Jamie (Danny Dyer) works for a pair of shady gangster brothers (Martin and Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet founders who were terrific as another pair of gangster brothers years back in The Krays). On his off hours…Read More

True Story review — Jonah and James’ theatre games

April 16, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Rupert Goold, Written by Goold and David Kajganich from the book by Michael Finkel Back in 2002, a New York Times Magazine writer named Mike Finkel got caught in a professional lie—he invented a character for a magazine cover story. Reeling from that career-killing event, he got a call about a guy named Christian…Read More

Run All Night review — Liam Neeson brings it

March 12, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Brad Ingelsby Liam Neeson: action icon. It would have been hard to believe 10 years ago, even though he once played a superhero in Darkman. Neeson's found a professional niche comparable to what Robert Mitchum used to do, or late career Charles Bronson. That said, his efforts in the action…Read More

Focus review — Stylish, fun, and sometimes unfocussed

February 28, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa The con artist movie is a special kind of beast. It only works if we're fooled along with the mark. Knowing what we're in for, we're pretty hard to fool. So, just having achieved that, having met the intricate demands of this particular thriller subgenre, is…Read More