Tag Archives: Christopher Plummer

From The Vault: Highpoint (1982) review

June 1, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Peter Carter | Written by Dick Guttman and Ian Sutherland | 87 min | ▲1/2 | DVD It felt appropriate on the weekend of the Canadian Screen Awards to dig into the dark, dirty past of the Canadian movie business. Highpoint was made during the much-maligned tax shelter years in Canadian film, a time… Read More

The Amateur (2025) review — Silly but satisfying spy thriller

April 14, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by James Hawes | Written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, based on the novel by Robert Littell | 123 min | ▲▲▲ You could go looking for the first movie adaptation of the Robert Littell novel, but it's tough to find — a Canadian thriller produced by Garth Drabinksy starring John Savage, Christopher… Read More

Top 10 New-To-Me Movies of 2022

December 18, 2022 flawintheiris

A few days ago on the hellscape we all know as Twitter, someone posted a list of the older films they'd discovered this year. Movies from the past they'd never had a chance to see before but had sought out or stumbled upon in the past 12 months and were glad they did. Since I'm… Read More

Knives Out review — Playfully brilliant whodunit draws blood

November 27, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Rian Johnson | 130 min | Amazon Prime Bravo, Mr Johnson! The American auteur has shown he's a clever storyteller every time he's gone to bat: the teen noir Brick, the con-men hijinks of Brothers Bloom, the time travel twists in Looper, even the flawed-but-dynamic Star Wars: The Last Jedi. But… 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

All The Money In The World review — Plummer impresses, the film doesn’t

January 3, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by David Scarpa, based on a book by John Pearson | 132 min My LENS ME YOUR EARS podcast co-host Stephen Cooke and I discovered in a recent look at the films of Ridley Scott that the man's feature-film work going back to The Duellists (1977) is a catalogue… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Post Five — I hit the wall

September 22, 2015 flawintheiris

I had big plans for making Day 5 at the AFF a three feature day, but I couldn't do it. I think I'm still recovering from yesterday's movie marathon, and the emotional depth charge that was Room. Despite the appeal of Ethan Hawke and his trumpet skills, the serious draw of an Icelandic goat drama,… Read More

Reviews From The Vault: Vol. 1

August 27, 2015 flawintheiris

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called 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

Danny Collins review — Al Pacino back in tune

April 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Dan Fogelman Al Pacino won an Academy Award for his leading role in Scent Of A Woman. That was 22 years ago. The performance defined his whole Whoo-HAH persona. While the movie was popular, I don't think anyone really thought it was representative of his best stuff—the award was more of a body-of-work recognition,… Read More

Tom Waits on screen

April 9, 2012 flawintheiris

"And there's a difference between 'I do some acting' and 'I'm an actor.'" is what Tom Waits told Pitchfork back in 2006. "People don't really trust people to do two things well." Waits doesn't think of himself an actor, which is fine. Most of the roles he's been cast in he plays some variation of… Read More