Tag Archives: Emma Stone

Bugonia review — The weirdness that won’t be denied

November 1, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Will Tracy, adapting the screenplay by Jang Joon-hwan's Save The Green Planet | ▲▲▲1/2 Emma Stone is Michelle Fuller, a CEO of a big pharma company that's a major employer in a depressed suburban zone that could be anywhere in the United States. She's an ambitious and fierce… Read More

Eddington review — Flawed but fascinating Covid western

July 20, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ari Aster | 148 min | ▲▲▲▲ The hum around this picture out of Cannes was polarized — some admired its ambition, some hated it outright. Filmmaker Ari Aster has been challenging the affection of audiences since the success of his one-two horror punch of Hereditary and Midsommar. Then came Beau… Read More

Kinds of Kindness review — Perverse brilliance from Lanthimos and Filippou

July 1, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou | 164 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave A bit of a surprise when it was first announced, Kinds of Kindness comes hot on the heels of the Greek auteur Lanthimos' impressive Poor Things, which earned Emma Stone her second Oscar win. This new movie… Read More

Poor Things review — Delightfully prurient and entirely bonkers

December 29, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Tony McNamara, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray | 141 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave The team of Lanthimos and McNamara, responsible for the wonderful The Favourite, have paired up again for this adaptation of the 1992 book by Scot writer Gray. It's about a Frankenstein-like creation,… Read More

Cruella review — The de Vil Wears Puppies, or Does She?

May 26, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Craig Gillespie | Screenplay by Dana Fox and Tony McNamara, Story by Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel, and Steve Zissis, based on a novel by Dodie Smith | 134 min | Disney Plus Premium Disney's two-pronged strategy for new feature films — cannibalizing their classic catalogue — has been wildly successful. There's no… Read More

Zombieland: Double Tap review — Shambling, but not brain dead

October 24, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Reuben Fleischer | Written by Dave Callaham, Rhett Reese, and Paul Wernick | 99 min | VOD Zombieland from 2009 was, for my money, an exquisite example of what some people call popcorn for the brain: entertaining while in the cinema, but a movie where the emotional, nutritional value is near zero. Columbus… 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

Now on Canadian Netflix: Summer 2019

July 23, 2019 flawintheiris

To The Bone The first feature directed by Marti Noxon, whose name I’ve always associated with Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She also worked on Sharp Objects, the noirish HBO drama with Amy Adams who played a character with an addiction to self-harm. To The Bone is about Ellen (Lily Collins). She's 20 and anorexic, or… Read More

The Favourite review — Wicked, wonderful tale of women and power

December 22, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara | 119 min The new film by the Greek director of Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer is, I offer humbly, his best film yet. It's still got a strangely skewed perspective, but it's much more character-driven than satire- and… Read More

Battle Of The Sexes review — Tennis drama delivers straight-set victory

October 3, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | Written by Simon Beaufoy | 121 min One of two films expected this year set in the world of 1970s tennis—the other being the forthcoming Borg McEnroe—this deftly-directed drama recreates a sideshow event, something that was as much show business as actual sports, and sees it as a… Read More