Tag Archives: Andrew Garfield

After the Hunt review — Crimes and misdemeanors

October 19, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Luca Guadagnino | Written by Nora Garrett | 138 min | ▲▲▲ It's rare to see a big Hollywood feature tackle a culture war subject — whether it's Diversity, Equality and Inclusion or #MeToo — but After the Hunt touches on both. It's a bit messy, and bit of a melodrama, which is… Read More

We Live In Time review — An all-timer romantic drama

October 18, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by John Crowley | Written by Nick Payne | 107 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | VOD A capsule review of this film appeared on FITI in September during #TIFF24 If anyone read or saw my coverage of this film at the Toronto International Film Festival you'll know it floored me. It's of a genre that… Read More

#TIFF24 We Live In Time, Men Of War

September 7, 2024 flawintheiris

I've never been much of a fan of the cancer drama — the maudlin but massively successful Love Story set the stage for the genre in 1970, starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. These movies have reared their ugly heads a number of times since. They tend to indulge in a little class or generation clashing… Read More

Academy Award Nominations #Reaction

February 9, 2022 flawintheiris

The nominations for the '22 Academy Awards dropped on Tuesday morning, and as with every Hollywood awards season there were expectations met and expectations dashed. There's also the few naysayers who took to social media to say these awards are antiquated and irrelevant. They groused. They whined. They said, "Who cares?" That question's been asked… Read More

Spider-Man: No Way Home review — Amazing and spectacular, both

December 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon Watts | Written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers | 148 min | Netflix Let's have a chat about the definition of "fan service." It's a term that gets thrown around a lot lately, especially in relation to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's the idea is that these movies' producers are pandering… Read More

tick, tick… BOOM! review — Lin-Manuel Miranda’s heartfelt tribute to his hero and to Broadway

November 29, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Written by Steven Levenson, based on the musical by Jonathan Larson | 115 min | Netflix Jonathan Larson is best known as the creator of Rent, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning '90s rock musical. Tragically, he died suddenly in 1996 just as Rent was premiering off-Broadway. Before Rent he… Read More

The Eyes of Tammy Faye review — Biopic mixes satire and soap with uneven results

October 5, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Showalter | Written by Abe Sylvia, based on the documentary by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato | 126 min | Crave My memories of Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker come from TV in the late '80s and early '90s, where if you turned on the box late at night or on Sunday… Read More

Reviews: Vox Lux, On The Basis Of Sex, Bumblebee, Destination Wedding, The Mummy, Under The Silver Lake

May 1, 2019 flawintheiris

Vox Lux Brady Corbet's film is a strange animal, a drama about a pop star that's also a treatise on fame and the responsibility of art to inspire both violence and healing. Not all of its ideas work, but it deserves kudos for what it tries to do more than what it succeeds at. The… Read More

#FIN2018 reviews — The Bookshop, Under The Silver Lake

September 21, 2018 flawintheiris

The final day of the 2018 festival comes with mixed feelings. I'm exhausted, and picked up a cold on my way, but had a great week nonetheless. Big props to the organizers and programmers for bringing together a great collection of films. I especially enjoyed the quality of the documentaries this year, and while I… Read More

Silence review — Martyrs enjoyed vicariously, or not

January 12, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Martin Scorcese | Written by Scorcese and Jay Cocks, adapting a book by Shûsaku Endô | 161 min Martin Scorcese has made a lot of different kinds of movies, but much of his work can be grouped in three modes: The street fighter, telling tales of desperate, frequently armed men in Taxi Driver,… Read More