Tag Archives: Burt Reynolds

From The Vault: The Player (1992)

April 6, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Altman | Written by Michael Tolkin | 124 min | ▲▲▲▲ | Criterion Channel/VOD This review is prompted by the recent arrival of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Apple TV+ show, The Studio, which features a veteran Hollywood exec named Griffin Mill played by Bryan Cranston. No accident that Griffin Mill is… 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

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 5 — Stinkers

August 5, 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've been doing here on FITI since 2010. I still have a… Read More

Burt Reynolds’ Best on LENS ME YOUR EARS

October 3, 2018 flawintheiris

This week's episode of the podcast I do with Stephen Cooke, LENS ME YOUR EARS, is about Burt Reynolds, who died recently. Stephen and I are of the generation where Reynolds was one of the first movie stars either of us got to know, whose work left a big impact on our childhood moviegoing. Stephen… Read More

Triple 9 review — Guns and guts in peach tree country

March 1, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by John Hillcoat | Written by Matt Cook | 115 min | ▲▲▲△△ Australian director Hillcoat is a deliverer of masculine, violent genre tales such as The Proposition and Lawless. While he's not colluding with his partner-in-crime Nick Cave this time out, this picture isn't much of a departure in a story of (mostly) bad men. If anything the… Read More

A Cult of One: Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can

June 16, 2014 flawintheiris

My passion for movies comes from childhood. I watched a lot of movies with my parents, who didn't do much to shield me from all those grown-up movies of the 1970s they liked to watch. Ratings to protect innocent, impressionable kids from the very adult themes of American cinema at the time wasn't much of… Read More