Category Archives: Indie

What do The Dead Zone, Wayward, and Run The Wild Fields (and Schitt’s Creek!) have in common?

October 14, 2025 flawintheiris

OK, so stay with me, because this is an odd one. I'm talking about David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983), starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, and Tom Skerritt, the new Netflix miniseries, Wayward, starring Mae Martin, Sarah Gadon, and Toni Collette, and a made-for-cable film called Run The Wild Fields (2000), that stars Sean Patrick Flannery and…Read More

Roofman review — Channing Tatum’s gentleman thief is a charmer

October 12, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Derek Cianfrance | Written by Cianfrance and Kirt Gunn | 126 min | ▲▲▲▲ Right off the bat, what makes Roofman so terrific is it's another tale about America today — even as it's set a few years in the past, there's something undeniably current about this story, which is based in fact.…Read More

All Of You review — Scifi, romance, melodrama, tears

October 6, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by William Bridges | Written by Bridges and Brett Goldstein | 98 min | ▲▲▲ | Apple TV+ This might be the first film I've seen Goldstein in following the undeniable, inexorable Roy Kent from Ted Lasso, such an unforgettable character. I mean, he was here, he was there, he was every- fucking-where, right? Goldstein…Read More

Eleanor The Great review — Heartfelt, but not great

September 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Scarlett Johansson | Written by Tony Kamen | 98 min | ▲▲ | Crave It's 2025. Fewer and fewer people are still alive who hold first-hand memories of the Second World War and the atrocities of the Holocaust. A lot of good work has gone in to document the testimonials of the survivors,…Read More

#AIFF2025: Little Lorraine

September 13, 2025 flawintheiris

The idea of turning a song into a feature film is long overdue. I can think of a dozen candidates for future features, from artists like Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, and Rush. If this Cape Breton picture spawns more of this kind of thing, that will be a hell of a legacy. It is, indeed,…Read More

Splitsville review — A comedy that can’t commit

September 4, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Angelo Covino | Written by Covino and Kyle Marvin | 104 min | ▲▲▲ Here's a screwball comedy about two wealthy couples that's raunchy, funny, and occasionally astute about relationships, but one that leans into physical comedy rather than trusting the situations to carry the laughs — it works against the very…Read More

Together review — The horror of pairing up

August 1, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Michael Shanks | 102 min | ▲▲▲▲1/2 | VOD One of my biggest gripes about horror movies as a genre is how few genuinely fresh ideas are produced within it. Filmmakers are inordinately satisfied with regurgitating the same jump-scares, the same stomach-churning gore, the same themes. So when someone shows up…Read More

Sorry, Baby review — Intimate and honest about healing from trauma

July 29, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Eva Victor | 103 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | Crave A potent, difficult drama about the ways sexual assault can ruin your life and linger for years. The writer/director, Eva Victor, is also the lead actor — where that kind of move could be dubbed a vanity flex, this film feels like…Read More

Oh, Hi! review — Twisted, hilarious romantic comedy

July 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Sophie Brooks | Written by Brooks and Molly Gordon | 94 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | Hoopla, VOD Iris (Gordon, a Booksmart veteran) and Isaac (Logan Lerman) are off for a weekend in the New York countryside at a gorgeous farmhouse. They're in that honeymoon phase of their relationship — he's saying and doing…Read More

The Surfer review — Nicolas Cage hangs loose

June 18, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan | Written by Thomas Martin | 100 min | ▲▲1/2 | on VOD This is a tribute to the Ozploitation movies of the 1970s and '80s, like Ted Kotcheff's Wake In Fright, while also being that self-contained thing that's becoming a genre unto itself: A Nicolas Cage movie. He doesn't discriminate much…Read More