Tag Archives: Embeth Davidtz

Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight review — A memorable child performance

July 20, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Embeth Davidtz | Written by Davitz, adapting the memoir by Alexandra Fuller | 98 min | ▲▲▲ 1/2 Davidtz is a South African actor — terrific in Schindler's List, Junebug, and Mad Men, amongst other film and television — turned director in this confident, if awkwardly titled debut. It's set in Rhodesia -… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 10 — A few more very good movies

October 7, 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

New On Canadian Netflix: March 2017

March 20, 2017 flawintheiris

In an effort to keep up to date with films now available on platforms aside from the big screen, I had a look at the past few weeks of new releases on Canadian Netflix and I’ve got a few films for you to consider when you're looking to chill. (You can click on the movie… Read More

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review

May 3, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Marc Webb Written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner and James Vanderbilt, adapting the Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko My friend Dave, who loves superhero movies, and I disagreed on this one, and I had to admit that maybe my enjoyment of it was at least partly the… Read More

The Amazing Spider-Man review

July 17, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Marc Webb Written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves from a story by Vanderbilt and comics by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. This film really should credit John Romita, too, because as my friend Dave Howlett remarked, Emma Stone is the spitting image of that legendary Marvel artist's Gwen Stacey, right… Read More