Category Archives: Documentary

Lunenburg Doc Fest Review: Unsyncable

September 22, 2023 flawintheiris

The Lunenburg Doc Fest runs from September 21 through the 28th, with a broad selection of quality documentary features. Click here to check out the program. Unsyncable | Written and Directed by Megan Wennberg Nova Scotia filmmaker Megan Wennberg's carving out a career driven by curiosity — the best motivation for a documentary filmmaker —…Read More

Squaring The Circle review — The minds behind iconic rock imagery

August 29, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Anton Corbijn | Written by Trish D Chetty | 101 min | ▲▲▲△△ | On Digital and VOD This is a stylish, gritty documentary from a renowned Dutch photographer and filmmaker (Control, The American, A Most Wanted Man) who made his name capturing rock stars of the 1980s and 1990s in stylish, gritty…Read More

Tramps! review — Meet the New Romantics

July 20, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kevin Hegge | 104 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Carbon Arc Cinema A fascinating look back at the artistic movement that emerged in the wake of punk — a glamorous, wildly extravagant fashion, film, and music scene, with a big, queer heart. The doc provides a scrappy portrait, made through the memories…Read More

Bernie Langille Wants To Know What Happened To Bernie Langille review

July 9, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jackie Torrens | 78 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | CBC Gem Bernie Langille has lived in the shadow of his grandfather's death his whole life. Bernie is named after him, a veteran who died in suspicious circumstances in Halifax in February 1968. That's the core of this documentary — it rolls out…Read More

Alan Pakula: Going For Truth (2019) review — Remembering a genius storyteller

May 14, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Matthew Miele | 98 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Digital and VOD This is the kind of documentary about an artist so respected, revered, and so missed that every one of the actors who appears here who worked with him opens up in a way you don't see very often in our public-relation curated…Read More

Still: A Michael J Fox Movie review — Canadian actor’s heroic journey

May 12, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Davis Guggenheim | 95 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Apple TV+ If you watched TV in the 1980s, you knew Michael J Fox, and if you went to the movies in the 1980s, you knew Michael J Fox. He was up there with Eddie Murphy, Madonna, Tom Cruise, and Michael Jackson — the white…Read More

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story review — Another witness to Boomer myth

April 14, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels | 97 min | ▲▲▲△△ I've got to own up to a bit of a bias against this material: I've had it up to here with Boomer rock 'n' roll mythologizing. It's still thriving in 2023. This very week we got the news that Timothée Chalamet…Read More

Geographies of Solitude review — Sable Island paradise

March 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Jacquelyn Mills | 103 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | CBC Gem We barely hear a voice for the first 10 minutes of this documentary. Instead, we get the pleasure of images and sounds from Sable Island, the almost mythical crescent sandbar off the coast of Nova Scotia, home to seals and horses and Zoe…Read More

A House Made of Splinters review — Ukrainian children’s last chance

February 25, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont | 87 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | CBC Gem We're in Lysychansk, in Eastern Ukraine, in the days before the war with Russia. This is a way-station of sorts for kids whose parents are homeless or struggling with addictions. Children can spend nine months in this community home until their fostering…Read More

Navalny review — The power of Putin’s nemesis

February 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Daniel Roher | 98 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave A wildly entertaining doc about the Russian lawyer, activist, and politician Alexei Navalny, who in the summer of 2020 was poisoned with Novichok, the nerve agent preferred by agents of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The film serves as a detailed portrait of Navalny during…Read More