Tag Archives: Bruce Willis

Motherless Brooklyn — Edward Norton’s genre epic mostly works

November 8, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Edward Norton } Written by Norton, adapting the novel by Jonathan Lethem | 144 min | Crave Plus How did Norton, who hasn't directed since Keeping The Faith in 2000, manage to get this feature made, one where he produces, writes, directs, and acts? I'm impressed, but just the same I'm often a… 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. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 2019 flawintheiris

10 Great Richard E. Grant roles

February 20, 2019 flawintheiris

The undisputed media star of this year's Academy Awards season—coming to a conclusion with the ceremony on Sunday, February 24—is the Swaziland-born veteran actor Richard E. Grant. Those of us deeply embedded in the cult of his first feature film, Withnail and I, are especially enjoying the various articles about Grant's enthusiasm, and his deft social… Read More

Glass review — Ambitious superhero movie reflects, breaks

January 18, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | 129 min | Netflix This is a deeply unlikely picture, stitching together the filmmaker's Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2017) in an amalgam that goes off in directions that stretch credulity, while still delivering enough of Shyamalan's ambition and gift for fantasy cinema storytelling to make it worthwhile.… Read More

Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2017) reviews — Filmmaker connects his films across two decades

January 17, 2019 flawintheiris

With the sequel Glass opening on Friday, January 18, I thought it worthwhile to rewatch its predecessors. My review of Split is a light rewriting of the original from February, 2017. Unbreakable | Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | 106 min | (2000) Shyamalan is one of the few directors working who has a brand,… Read More

Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen reviews — Soderbergh’s heist trilogy shines like a diamond

June 7, 2018 flawintheiris

Ocean's Eleven (2001) Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Written by Ted Griffin, from the 1960 screenplay by George Clayton Johnson, Jack Golden Russell, Harry Brown, and Charles Lederer | 116 min | iTunes It seemed like a weird idea at the time: Let's take the not-so-great Rat Pack picture from the untrendy early '60s, and remake… Read More

Death Wish (1974) and (2018) reviews — 1970s vigilante thriller ages poorly in 2018 remake

March 9, 2018 flawintheiris

1974: Directed by Michael Winner | Written by Wendell Mayes | 93 minutes 2018: Directed by Eli Roth | Written by Joe Carnahan from the Brian Garfield novel and the 1974 film screenplay by Wendell Mayes | 107 min I recently rewatched the first Death Wish, and found the Michael Winner film to be not… Read More

Reviews: Jane Got A Gun, By The Sea, Rock The Kasbah, Man Up, 5 To 7

June 22, 2016 flawintheiris

Jane Got A Gun Directed by Gavin O'Connor | Written by Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis, and Joel Egerton 98 min | ▲▲▲△△ | On DVD, Blu-Ray, and VOD A moody if somewhat standard-issue western from O'Connor, the helmer of the excellent MMA drama Warrior and executive producer on one of the best shows on TV, The Americans. Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman)… 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