Tag Archives: Adrien Brody

The Brutalist review — Visionary, flawed immigrant epic

January 25, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Brady Corbet | Written by Corbet and Mona Fastvold | 214 min | ▲▲▲1/2 Brady Corbet's work as an actor is familiar to me, it goes back a way, but as a writer-director the only picture of his I've watched was the Natalie Portman pop-star drama Vox Lux. This couldn't be more different.… Read More

Ghosted review — Abysmal action-comedy schlock

April 24, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Dexter Fletcher | Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Chris McKenna, and Erik Sommers | 116 min | ▲△△△△ | Apple TV+ I was pretty sure this was gonna be a difficult watch when someone says, "I think she might be the one!" It’s a line by Chris Evans' character early on in… Read More

Blonde and Babylon reviews — Two Tinseltown epics, but only one has the goods

December 29, 2022 flawintheiris

See How They Run review — It was Agatha all along

November 27, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom George | Written by Mark Chappell | 98 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Disney+ What we have here is an entirely self-aware, tongue-in-cheek, Agatha Christie-dragging whodunnit, stuffed with a delightful cast who completely understand what kind of movie they're in and swing for the fences. Accordingly, See How They Run is a delightful… Read More

Predator series review

August 5, 2022 flawintheiris

As a science-fiction series birthed out of slam-bang, macho Hollywood of the 1980s, this one falls behind The Terminator and Alien by some distance. Maybe that's because those pictures have at least two stone cold classics each, while this one, despite a number of attempts to capture the magic of the first, still rides on… Read More

The French Dispatch review — I don’t really get it. Still worth seeing, though.

November 1, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugh Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman | 108 min | In Cinemas I've long appreciated Wes Anderson's strange magic. I have plenty of time for his tiny twee classics like Moonrise Kingdom, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and the writer-director's masterpiece, The Grand Budapest Hotel.… Read More

Reviews From The Vault Vol. 9 — Thrillers

September 4, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting 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 from the Vault Vol. 8 — Comedies

August 28, 2019 flawintheiris

The Grand Budapest Hotel review

March 30, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson, Written by Anderson and Hugh Guinness, inspired by the writing of Stefan Zweig A new Wes Anderson film is always an event. The Texas-born filmmaker may be too precious for some, but show me one of his peers with such a distinctive, irrepressible visual and thematic style, a sweet-sad combination of nostalgia… Read More

Midnight in Paris review

June 9, 2011 flawintheiris

My thoughts on the newest Woody Allen movie can be found at The Coast website. Read More