Tag Archives: Colin Farrell

The Banshees of Inisherin review — Irish idyll is a gem

November 5, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh | 109 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Disney + and Crave A version of this review appeared on FITI in September during the Toronto International Film Festival. This film was shot in Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. The story is set on… Read More

The Banshees of Inisherin, The Wonder reviews, #TIFF22

September 15, 2022 flawintheiris

A couple of Ireland-shot period movies today, both of which feature old houses burning down. Otherwise, they're quite different. The Banshees of Inisherin | Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh | 109 min I learned today that Inisherin, the island where this yarn is set, is fictional. It was shot in Inishmore, the largest of… Read More

After Yang review — Thoughtful but distant science fiction

May 30, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kogonada | Based on a short story by Alexander Weinstein | 96 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave When I first saw Columbus, the first feature film by documentarian and video-maker Kogonada, I was a bit nonplussed. I admired the formality of his filmmaking, the framing and deliberate lack of camera movement… Read More

The Batman review — The darkest knight of them all

March 3, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Reeves | Written by Reeves and Peter Craig | 175 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave On the way out of the cinema, I heard a fellow punter say, "Batman was so emo!" In response, her friend said, "Batman's been emo since 1939!" I'm in the sweet spot for this material having read… Read More

The Gentlemen review — Guy Ritchie returns to his comfort zone

January 30, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Guy Ritchie | 103 min When a filmmaker tills a familiar patch of ground, it's easy to take their efforts for granted, and, even more so, criticize when they take detours off that property. British auteur Guy Ritchie made his name with the gangster movie—Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch,… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 8 — Comedies

August 28, 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

Widows review — McQueen’s art house crime drama thrills and spills

November 16, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Steve McQueen | Written by McQueen and Gillian Flynn, from a book by Lynda La Plante | 129 min | Netflix We're in good hands from the start. In the opening scenes the film jumps between the bedroom intimacies of couple Veronica and Harry Rawlings (Viola Davis and Liam Neeson) and Harry's life… Read More

10 Great Tom Hardy roles

October 26, 2018 flawintheiris

I was listening to a podcast recently looking back at Christopher Nolan's Inception, and the hosts mused about Tom Hardy, what an impact his presence had on the film, and whether this was his breakout role in Hollywood. There's no doubt that even in an ensemble as well-assembled as this, his presence shone. One of the… Read More

Roman J. Israel, Esq. review — Legal thriller pivots on faith

November 30, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Dan Gilroy | 129 min Gilroy the writer-director gave us the impressive Nightcrawler in 2014. Gilroy as just the screenwriter goes a lot further back than that—he was one of the scribes on the largely forgotten Mick Jagger science-fiction picture Freejack in the early '90s, with some interesting fare since then. Based… Read More

The Killing of a Sacred Deer review — More strangeness from The Lobster filmmaker

November 1, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou | 120 min The Lobster was the picture everyone had to see last year, if only to hold an opinion on its baked-in weirdness. Greek filmmaker Lanthimos' first English-language film brought his unique vision to the world in a big way. His follow-up is… Read More