Tag Archives: Ang Lee

The Wedding Banquet (2025) review — Remake finds new storytelling paths

April 17, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Andrew Ahn | Written by Ahn and James Schamus, based on the script by Schamus, Ang Lee, and Neil Peng | 102 min | ▲▲▲ 1/2 | Crave The original Wedding Banquet was Ang Lee's second feature, but the first to get a release in North America. Weirdly, it's pretty much unavailable online… Read More

20 Best Movies on Canadian Netflix (from the 20th Century)

February 8, 2021 flawintheiris

I don't think this is a secret: Netflix doesn't carry a deep library of quality older cinema. Most folks looking to a streaming service for a classic movie are probably better off subscribing to Amazon Prime — a lot to enjoy there — or the Criterion Channel. (I'd also recommend a look at the library… Read More

Gemini Man review — CGI clone war loses on two fronts

October 13, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Ang Lee | Written by David Benioff, Billy Ray, and Darren Lemke | 117 min | Netflix For a chunk of its running time, I was confident Ang Lee's action thriller was gonna be the quintessential three star picture—if I was still giving reviews with star ratings—a perfectly fine action picture from a… Read More

LENS ME YOUR EARS podcast update, and Carbon Arc Cinema is back!

March 28, 2019 flawintheiris

Stephen Cooke and I have been getting together every fortnight to see and review new movies in cinemas and talk about older ones that relate by genre or filmmaker—that's basically the mandate of our podcast, LENS ME YOUR EARS. We also mess with the mandate from time to time, but movies are always on our… Read More

I Am Heath Ledger review — Touching memorial to late actor

May 4, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Adrian Buitenhuis and Derik Murray |Written by Hart Snider | 90 min Heath Ledger was one of those Hollywood stars who seemed preordained, effortlessly talented and charismatic. This doc, narrated by the late actor's friends and family, and, to a degree Ledger himself via home footage and interviews, makes that presumption explicit. He… Read More

Remembering Alan Rickman and David Bowie

January 16, 2016 flawintheiris

It's been a rough week, absorbing the news that actor, writer, and director Alan Rickman, and creative icon David Bowie, have died. Both were 69. A Shakespearean thesp in the UK, most audiences in North America were introduced to Alan Rickman with the one-two punch of Die Hard (1988) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). He's remarkable… Read More

Top 10 of 2005 and 2006

August 24, 2015 flawintheiris

In a couple weeks this blog will be five years old. Accordingly, through the coming fortnight I'm gonna be taking a few looks back. As I've done before, I've stumbled upon some material from the vaults: My list of the best movies of 2005 and 2006, a list I put together for my four year movie broadcast… Read More

The Oscars 2013 postmortem

February 25, 2013 flawintheiris

Question One: Why do the Golden Globes work while the Academy Awards so frequently don't?I really enjoyed the Golden Globes this year. You know why? Because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association really knows how to do it. They don't try and reinvent the wheel. They put on a party where celebrities drink and eat and… Read More

Life of Pi review

December 3, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Ang LeeWritten by David Magee from the Yann Martel novelAng Lee is a great humanist director, someone who finds authenticity in character no matter the genre. I was one of the few who really liked his Hulk, but no apologies necessary for his universally approbated Brokeback Mountain, Ride With The Devil, The Ice Storm,… Read More

10 Things Hollywood Needs to Stop Doing Right Now

April 11, 2012 flawintheiris

Oh, I could probably come up with more than 10 things that I never, ever need to see again at my local multiplex, but these are the ones at the forefront of my mind, things that make me shake my head whenever I encounter them. So, let's get to it: Stop the "From The Producers… Read More