Tag Archives: Alia Shawkat

The Wrong Girls review — The next-gen stoner comedy

August 14, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Dylan Meyer | 100 min | ▲▲▲ | In Cinemas (Dartmouth Crossing only in the Halifax area) Welcome to August, when studios release the movies they couldn't quite figure out how to market to audiences who have spent the summer being pummelled into submission by blockbusters. This isn't necessarily a bad… Read More

Blink Twice review — Zoë Kravitz’s vision is fire

August 27, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Zoë Kravitz | Written by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime Frida (Naomi Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat) are pals and work as servers at big events, but one quick change into formal wear later and they're in the company of Slater King (Channing Tatum), a billionaire who's done some… Read More

Being the Ricardos review — I liked Lucy

December 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin | 131 min | Amazon Prime It's the mid-1950s and comedian Lucille Ball is the biggest thing on TV. Her sitcom I Love Lucy earns 60 million viewers a week. We know this because we're being told as much in the movie by the show's writers, interviewed in a… Read More

First Cow review — Meditative western explores male friendship

July 21, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Kelly Reichardt | Written by Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond, from Raymond's novel | 122 min | Crave Plus Reichardt makes lyrical, gentle films about human connection, like a cinematic equivalent to folk music, which when her films are period-set, might be described as Americana. I've conjured that comparison while, admittedly, having only seen… Read More

The To Do List review

August 21, 2013 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Maggie CareyOh, the damage to my own innocence from having given up 100 minutes of my life with Tom Cruise and Shelley Long in 1983's Losin' It. The movie belonged to a genre of teen comedy that has very happily gone the way of the dodo: the devirginizing romp. Oh, it still comes… Read More