Tag Archives: Hamza Haq

Queen Of My Dreams review — Fetching first feature crosses cultures

March 23, 2024 flawintheiris

An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI last September at #TIFF2023 Written and Directed by Fawzia Mirza | 97 min | ▲▲▲△△ I gather Cape Breton-raised filmmaker Fawzia Mirza brings a lot of autobiography to this light, charming film, the story of Azra (Amrit Kaur) is a queer woman living in Toronto with… Read More

My Salinger Year review — New York writer makes it after all

March 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Philippe Falardeau | Written by Falardeau, based on the novel by Joanna Smith Rakoff | 101 min | Crave Plus There's the Coming Of Age movie, the Ambitious Youth Comes To The Big City movie, and the Fish Out Of Water movie, and My Salinger Year is a cross section of all three.… Read More

Run This Town review — Millennial angst buries the lede

April 21, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ricky Tollman | 99 min | Crave Bram (Ben Platt) is a slightly ambitious, slightly insecure, slightly smug young reporter who in 2012 works for a slightly fictional Toronto paper called The Record. He wants to do journalism that matters — and is regularly pressured in that direction by his… Read More