Category Archives: Indie

A Cult of One: Impromptu

March 21, 2012 flawintheiris

Welcome to a new occasional feature on Flaw In The Iris. A Cult of One is where I write about unheralded films, generally unloved and unpopular. They're misunderstood and deserve a larger fanbase... besides just me. Impromptu (1991) | Directed by James Lapine | Written by Sarah Kernochan | 91 min I stumbled across Impromptu…Read More

Kevin Smith’s 10 movies reviewed

March 13, 2012 flawintheiris

Oh, yeah. I forgot to link to this. Here are my thoughts on Kevin Smith's cinematic output, in a feature I wrote up at The Coast. I wrote about the first nine, while Matthew Ritchie covered Red State, which remains unseen by me.Read More

Page Eight and London River reviews

March 12, 2012 flawintheiris

Two very different but very London-centric political thrillers now on DVD: Page Eight | Written and Directed by David Hare (BBC) Pravda playwright and The Reader screenwriter David Hare returns to directing for the first time in years with this John le Carré-style British spy drama. Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) plays a straight-arrow MI5 man,…Read More

The Genies, Café de Flore and Monsieur Lazhar

March 9, 2012 flawintheiris

It's a Thursday night in March, and I was watching the Genies earlier this evening. For those of you reading this from outside Canada—hell, for a lot of Canadians, too—let me tell you what that is: It's the award show for Canadian film.This year was the 32nd edition of the show. The televised portion runs…Read More

The Woman in Black review, Daniel Radcliffe interview

February 4, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by James Watkins | 95 min | Amazon Prime I've got a ton of stuff for you if you're a fan of the former Harry Potter or interested in Daniel Radcliffe's first post-Potter picture. My interview with Radcliffe and story on The Woman in Black, is here. An audio clip featuring excerpts from the…Read More

Shame review, Abi Morgan interview

January 27, 2012 flawintheiris

I did a capsule review of British director Steve McQueen's Shame at The Coast, which you can read here. I also talked to the screenwriter, Abi Morgan. You can see my story here.Read More

A Dangerous Method review

January 15, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by David Cronenberg Written by Christopher Hampton, from his play A Talking Cure, which was adapted from the book A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr. I have really been enjoying the Viggo Mortensen era of David Cronenberg's work. Mortensen has starred in the past three Cronenbergs, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises and…Read More

The Artist review

December 26, 2011 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Michael Hazanavicius Here's a movie I saw in the perfect environment: an ancient rep cinema full of Boxing Day cineastes who lined up on the slushy sidewalk for the pleasure of seeing a silent movie. I'm sure my experience was improved by the surroundings and the audience. And the film? Well,…Read More

Young Adult review

December 21, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason ReitmanWritten by Diablo CodyIn a high school reunion movie (it's a genre, you know) Mavis Gary would be the antagonist, the lady who was the mean girl as a teen and is still a bitch 20 years later—even though she's by many societal standards a success. The closest we've seen to her…Read More

Margin Call review

December 18, 2011 flawintheiris

Written and directed by JC ChandorMargin Call arrived in cinemas near me with not much fanfare, which is a shame as it's all kinds of good.It's the summer of 2008 at some Lehmann Brothers-esque New York investment bank, full of morally bankrupt fat cats. Well, maybe it's not as simple as that, but it's hard…Read More