Tag Archives: Brad Pitt

F1 The Movie review — Vroom Vroom

June 25, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Joseph Kosinski | Written by Kosinski and Ehren Kruger | ▲▲▲▲ | 155 min If you've seen the trailer for this picture, you might've thought to yourself, "Hey, the grizzled veteran mentoring the young hotshot, a group of men embracing speed, intensity, and risking their lives for glory — this is just like… Read More

Wolfs review — These guys are pros

September 28, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jon Watts | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Apple TV+ Amy Ryan's Margaret, a District Attorney, has a big problem. There's a dead guy in her swanky New York hotel room. She has a number she was given for absolute emergencies, someone she should call only if she's in desperate need.… Read More

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

December 29, 2022 flawintheiris

She Said review — Journalism drama chronicles the fall of Weinstein

November 20, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Maria Schrader | Written by Maria Schrader, based on the New York Times investigation by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey | 128 min | ▲▲▲▲△ It's hard to underestimate the impact of this story that ran in The New York Times — along with a parallel piece that ran in the New Yorker… Read More

Bullet Train review — Action comedy goes off the rails

August 15, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by David Leitch | Written by Zak Olkewicz, from a novel by Kôtarô Isaka | 127 min | ▲▲△△△ | Netflix Back in the 1990s, the success of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction spawned a collection of "Tarantino-esque" gangster pictures with titles like Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, 2… Read More

The Lost City review — Jungle snooze

April 10, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Aaron Nee and Adam Nee | Written by the Nees, Oren Uziel, and Dana Fox | 112 min | ▲△△△△ I was excited by the prospect of a romantic adventure movie having enjoyed pictures like Romancing The Stone and the The Mummy with Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser. Last year's awful Jungle Cruise did… Read More

Ad Astra review — A long ride into space

September 21, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by James Gray | Written by Gray and Ethan Gross | 122 min | Crave Plus I was lining up for popcorn at the cinema last week, and behind me, two women noticed the poster for Ad Astra, featuring Brad Pitt against a starry backdrop. "Brad Pitt in space, I'd go see that," said… 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

Second Viewing: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood review

August 26, 2019 flawintheiris

I love it when people have a lot of opinions on a movie, especially when that movie is original material that genuinely catches the interest of the moviegoing public. The new Quentin Tarantino picture has topped $100 million domestically with much more coming from the international box office—it's a solid global hit in a summer… Read More