Category Archives: Romcom

Bridget Jones’s Baby review — Stale third outing from the famed singleton

October 18, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Sharon Maguire | Written by Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, and Emma Thompson, based on the book by Fielding | 123 min | Crave, Hoopla Hugh Grant never gets much credit. The British actor's role as Daniel Cleaver, the quintessential dashing British cad, was an essential spice adding flavour to the first two Bridget Jones…Read More

Maggie’s Plan review — Awkward in New York

July 3, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Rebecca Miller | Written by Miller and Karen Rinaldi | 98 min | Amazon Prime |▲▲▲△△ Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a New York academic who's decided to take fate into her own hands, as she explains to her friends Tony (the current MVP in modern American comedies, Bill Hader) and Felicia (Maya Rudolph).…Read More

Reviews: Jane Got A Gun, By The Sea, Rock The Kasbah, Man Up, 5 To 7

June 22, 2016 flawintheiris

Jane Got A Gun Directed by Gavin O'Connor | Written by Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis, and Joel Egerton 98 min | ▲▲▲△△ | On DVD, Blu-Ray, and VOD A moody if somewhat standard-issue western from O'Connor, the helmer of the excellent MMA drama Warrior and executive producer on one of the best shows on TV, The Americans. Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman)…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: The Homesman, Men Women & Children, Song One, Gemma Bovery, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Black Sea

May 4, 2015 flawintheiris

A few thoughts on movies now available on VOD, DVD and Blu-Ray The Homesman A powerfully sui generis western, the kind of a story that steps over so many of the generic Hollywood screenwriting conventions you'll never see where it's going. Director and star Tommy Lee Jones adapts a Glendon Swarthout novel about a woman…Read More

After The Ball review — A fashionable modern fairytale

February 27, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Sean Garrity, written by Kate Melville and Jason Sherman | Crave, Hoopla Having experienced the heavy-handed full-Disney-press of the new live-action Cinderella trailer lately, it was a real pleasure to discover this Montreal-shot picture that, with a delightfully light touch, uses the overly familiar story as a springboard to tell the tale of…Read More

The F Word: Q and A with director Michael Dowse and screenwriter Elan Mastai

August 21, 2014 flawintheiris

The F Word (opening Friday, August 22, in Halifax), is a bit of a rare breed in the summer of 2014. It's an unmistakable romantic comedy and wears its genre tropes on its big, puffy sleeves. There's the main young, attractive couple who spark, the obstacle to keep them apart, the quirky, appealing supporting cast (a part…Read More

Magic in the Moonlight review

August 13, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Woody Allen | Amazon Prime While there's a certain inevitability to a new Woody Allen movie—he's made one a year since the early 80s, and was pretty quick about putting them out in the years before that, too—going to see one of his pictures and reviewing it in 2014 nearly feels…Read More

Obvious Child review

July 20, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Gillian Robespierre, Written by Robespierre, Karen Maine, and Elizabeth Holm, based on a short film by Robespierre, Maine, and Anna Bean I can't tell you how great it is to see a film like this with characters who speak like people I know, about the politics and reality of modern life for women…Read More

Fading Gigolo review

June 4, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by John Turturro Murray (Woody Allen) is a New York bookseller. His buddy, Fioravante (Turturro), is a florist. Things are a little slow in both of their businesses, so Murray hatches a plan to pimp his chum out to dissatisfied, wealthy women, including Dr Parker (Sharon Stone) and her libidinous BFF Selima (Sofia…Read More