Tag Archives: Cate Blanchett

Indiana Jones series review

June 29, 2023 flawintheiris

The final (?) Indiana Jones adventure is just about to open (on Friday, June 30th), so now seems a perfect time to rewatch the four previous entries in the franchise. My feeling about them from previous viewings is a case of diminishing returns, and I say that knowing a lot of people love the third… Read More

Tár review — Symphony for the devil

November 3, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Todd Field | 158 minutes | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave Filmmaker Todd Field may be a name familiar to those who enjoyed In The Bedroom and Little Children, two solid and affecting dramas that over time have pretty much vanished from the cultural conversation. His first film in 15 years is Tár, which… Read More

Don’t Look Up review — Killer comet satire crushes

December 29, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Adam McKay | Written by McKay and David Sirota | 138 min | Netflix The biggest movie on Netflix this season has also turned out to be the most controversial. The screeds against it are plenty — a passel of well-regarded reviewers have called the disaster movie, cleverly, "disastrous," and its director a… Read More

Nightmare Alley review — del Toro’s noir is grim, gorgeous, and glacial

December 21, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Guillermo del Toro | Written by del Toro and Kim Morgan, based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham | 150 min | Crave In October 2017 I was in Toronto for two reasons: One to attend the 50th birthday party of a good friend, the other to see Guillermo del Toro's remarkable… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 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

Now on Canadian Netflix: Summer 2019

July 23, 2019 flawintheiris

To The Bone The first feature directed by Marti Noxon, whose name I’ve always associated with Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She also worked on Sharp Objects, the noirish HBO drama with Amy Adams who played a character with an addiction to self-harm. To The Bone is about Ellen (Lily Collins). She's 20 and anorexic, or… Read More

Ocean’s 8 review — A sharp, entertaining spin-off

June 8, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Gary Ross | Written by Ross and Olivia Milch | 110 min Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) is Danny Ocean's little sister, and she's very much into thievery, the family business. We meet her as she's released from a stretch in prison, and the first thing she does is scam a department store for beauty… Read More

Song to Song review — Malick’s dream ride continues to SXSW

December 12, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Terrence Malick | 129 min | on iTunes Since The Tree of Life, Terry Malick's been eschewing anything approaching a traditional narrative in his films, instead making sweeping romantic tales of love and alienation—To The Wonder and Knight Of Cups—driven by visuals and intimate voiceover rather than dialogue and plot. This approach upsets many in the… Read More

Thor: Ragnarok review — The God of Thunder lightens up

November 3, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Taika Waititi | Written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost | 130 min It's the third Thor movie. Can you believe it? If I could go back in time and tell 10-year-old Carsten we'd have three Thor movies by 2017, not to mention all the Iron Man, Avengers, and X-Men movies,… Read More

Knight Of Cups review — Hypnosis Agog

April 11, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Terrence Malick | 118 min | ▲▲▲▲△ I really tend to resist this kind of observation when writing about the movies, but with the new films from legendary director Terrence Malick, I have to say it: I think in a certain mood, they're hypnotic, beautiful, and moving. In other moods, your mileage may… Read More