Tag Archives: David Cronenberg

From The Vault: Extreme Measures (1996) review

April 27, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Apted | Written by Tony Gilroy, adapting a book by Michael Palmer | 118 min | ▲▲▲ | Hoopla, VOD This none-more-'90s thriller starts with Hugh Grant fully in his floppy-hair phase as an emergency room doctor in New York City on a very busy night. Grant's Dr Guy Luthan seems a… Read More

The Shrouds review — Portals to the grave, and other good times

April 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David Cronenberg | 119 min | ▲▲▲▲ | VOD An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI in September 2024 during coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. David Cronenberg isn't the only legendary filmmaker in his 80s still making interesting, relevant films, or at the very least taking big… Read More

#TIFF24: The Shrouds, Daniela Forever, and The Apprentice

September 6, 2024 flawintheiris

A gorgeous, sunny day in Toronto and I'm the idiot that chose two films about grief for my first two screenings — not intentionally, but that's sometimes how it rolls. The first was The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg, and the second also an auteurist drama, Daniela Forever, by the fantastically named Nacho… Read More

Crimes of the Future review — Long Live the New Sex

June 14, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David Cronenberg | 107 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | VOD Can we say now, while he's still with us and making movies at this standard, that David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker our national cinema has ever produced? I mean, the mountain of evidence is towering. If you go back more than… Read More

20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (From the 20th Century)

May 24, 2021 flawintheiris

I started with Netflix, notorious for having a shallow catalogue of older movies, then went on to Disney's new service, Star. Now I'm having a look at Prime, which actually boasts a bigger variety of films 21 years or older. Here's some of the best available now: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) This is Werner… Read More

#FIN2020 Opening Night Gala Review — Falling

September 18, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Viggo Mortensen | 112 min Oscar-nominated actor and movie star Viggo Mortensen tries his hand as an auteur with an international co-pro domestic drama. A huge disappointment, it's a film entirely removed from real life. Willis, played by Lance Henriksen, is a senior struggling with dementia and an endless supply of… Read More

Disappearance at Clifton Hill review — Niagara-set mystery grounded in place

February 27, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Albert Shin | Written by Shin and James Schultz | 100 min | ▲▲▲△△| Netflix You don't see a lot of moody detective stories in the cinema anymore. That's because TV has more or less perfected the genre — a good, twisty script and a star performer is a formula that attracts eyeballs… Read More

Reviews from the Vault: Vol. 2 (Atlantic Film Festival Edition)

August 31, 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

Atlantic Film Festival 2014: Day Eight—Cronenberg, The Guest, and that’s a wrap!

September 19, 2014 flawintheiris

Is it possible it's all over so soon? Must be since I was sitting in a packed house for David Cronenberg's Maps To The Stars on Thursday night, and a week ago I was at the Cohn for the disappointing opener, Elephant Song. As a closer, the Cronenberg film was typically discomfiting from the Canadian provocateur—even… Read More

Top 10 Movies of 2012

January 13, 2013 flawintheiris

Welcome to a post collecting the names and details of films that wowed me through the 12 months of last year, typically arriving late as I caught up with everything I wanted to see. My criteria for inclusion are as follows: List-worthiness for me is a strange equation of cerebral and emotional, as much as… Read More