Tag Archives: Emily Blunt

Oppenheimer review — Haunting atomic drama echoes through time

July 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Christopher Nolan | Written by Nolan, based on the book American Prometheus by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird | 180 min | ▲▲▲▲△ The return of Nolan to serious, biographical work about men and war — following his spectacular Dunkirk — shows his ambition hasn't diminished one whit. This is a story swaddled in… Read More

Jungle Cruise review — Ersatz adventure gets lost down the river

July 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra | Written by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Josh Goldstein, Michael Green, and John Norville | 128 min | Disney Plus Almost 20 years ago, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's first starring role in a feature was a picture called The Scorpion King, an entertaining spin-off of The Mummy Returns, itself a sequel… Read More

A Quiet Place Part II — More of the good and the bad from the first movie

June 25, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Krasinksi | 97 min | VOD We're back in cinemas and back to the dystopic future where hyper-aggressive, murderous aliens with terrific ears — who clearly aren't hunting humans for food or sport, just for the sake of killing us — have destroyed society as we know it. Some folks… Read More

Wild Mountain Thyme review — Irish romance a lot of blarney, but not all bad

May 10, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Patrick Shanley, based on his play Outside Mullingar | 102 min | Netflix The thing about tales out of rural Ireland — or rural anywhere, for that matter — they live and breathe due to their sense of authenticity. These filmmakers have certainly gone to shoot in County Mayo and County… 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

Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Returns reviews — Disney’s witchy nanny is practically perfect in every way

December 25, 2018 flawintheiris

A Quiet Place review — Silent suspense holds you down

April 8, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by John Krasinski | Written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and Krasinski | 90 min | On Demand Not long from now humanity is going to have our collective head handed to us by larger, more ferocious versions of the critter from Stranger Things. These suckers hunt purely by sound. Not sure if they're… Read More

New on Canadian Netflix: August/September 2017

September 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to-solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) Death Note (2017) I was a big fan of Adam Wingard's The Guest (found elsewhere on this month's list), bit… Read More

The Girl On The Train review — Ridiculous melodrama has one track mind

October 8, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Tate Taylor | Written by Erin Cressida Wilson adapting the book by Paula Hawkins | 112 min The best thing one can say about The Girl On The Train is that it commits. A wildly over the top melodrama with characters that barely resemble human beings, it's a story about women who weep… Read More

Sicario review — At Hell’s Border

October 1, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Denis Villeneuve | Written by Taylor Sheridan | 121 min Kate (Emily Blunt, convincingly tough and vulnerable) is a straight arrow FBI agent on the anti-kidnap squad working in Arizona with partner Reggie (Daniel Kaluuya, another talented Brit import), mopping up at the margins of the Mexican drug cartel business, which usually means… Read More