Tag Archives: Ben Whishaw

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Passages

September 28, 2023 flawintheiris

I'm the new Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. Directed by Ira Sachs | Written by Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias, and Arlette Langmann | 91 min | Carbon Arc Cinema This is the first feature to screen at Carbon Arc Cinema under the auspices… Read More

Women Talking review — A potent, important conversation

January 20, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Sarah Polley | Written by Polley, adapting the Miriam Toews novel | 104 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave A version of this review was posted on FITI during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. With the splash Women Talking made at TIFF and AIFF, and the high profile of Sarah Polley on the… Read More

Triangle of Sadness, Women Talking reviews #TIFF22

September 9, 2022 flawintheiris

Spent a couple hours in line-ups on Thursday to collect tickets and waiting for access to press and industry screenings, but it was all worth it to see two interesting features and get my first taste of #TIFF22 from the inside. I'm sharing photos and videos on the flaw_in_the_iris Instagram account, so if you're interested… Read More

A Cult Of One: Bright Star

February 28, 2022 flawintheiris

Welcome back to a semi-regular feature on FITI, where I highlight an older film that maybe hasn't received the cultural attention it deserves. With Jane Campion very much in the current conversation as Power Of The Dog receives awards attention, here's a film of hers from more than a decade ago that never earned that… Read More

No Time To Die review — Daniel Craig’s final Bond is grand… until it isn’t

October 9, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga | Written by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga, and Phoebe Waller Bridge, based on characters by Ian Fleming | 163 min | Crave It's finally here after more than a year of delays,… Read More

A look back at James Bond 007: the Daniel Craig Era (up to No Time To Die)

October 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Daniel Craig arrived with a flourish typical of a new Bond at a press conference on the banks of the Thames. The actor had proclaimed his tough guy credentials in a zippy crime drama called Layer Cake, and looked comfortable with props (like guns) in Munich, but seemed far from a shoo-in for the role… Read More

The Personal History of David Copperfield review — A joyful adaptation of a classic novel

September 7, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Armando Iannucci | Written by Iannucci and Simon Blackwell, adapting the book by Charles Dickens | 119 min | Crave Plus Words I've used to describe Iannucci's work on films like In The Loop, and The Death of Stalin include "biting" and "hilarious," and I'd carry forward that kind of language for his… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 10 — A few more very good movies

October 7, 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

Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Returns reviews — Disney’s witchy nanny is practically perfect in every way

December 25, 2018 flawintheiris

Paddington 2 review — The sweet return of the marmalade-loving bear

January 20, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Paul King | Written by King and Simon Farnaby, from the Michael Bond character | 104 min The return of the warm and literally fuzzy, marmalade-loving bear, and a welcome return it is. The first film showed up in North American cinemas in January 2015, which seems incredible to me. I was half… Read More