Tag Archives: Hugh Grant

From The Vault: Restoration (1995) review

November 16, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Hoffman | Written by Rupert Walters, based on a novel by Rose Tremain | 117 min | ▲1/2 | DVD, on VOD in the United States Sheer, hardheaded curiosity forced me to track down this feature — a lost Miramax picture from the mid-'90s, star-studded and Academy-awarded (for Art Direction and Costume… Read More

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review — Fourth entry brings laughs and tears

February 15, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Morris | Written by Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer and Abi Morgan | 124 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | Amazon Prime in Canada, Peacock in the US It's hard to believe a new Bridget Jones movie isn't reaching cinemas here in Canada. It's been a popular franchise that started way back in 2001, an… Read More

Heretic review — Hugh Grant is terrific, but the movie goes south

November 7, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods | 100 min | ▲▲△△△ | VOD Time and again I'm reminded that I'm not a horror purist. What that means is the cliches of horror movies don't wash for me — where a gorehound or a hardcore horror fan will give a reasonable genre entry a… Read More

Unfrosted review — The (Fake) History of Pop Tarts

May 7, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Jerry Seinfeld | Written by Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, and Barry Marder | 93 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix Jerry Seinfeld, the one-time king of television comedy about nothing, has directed a feature film about breakfast pastry. That's not nothing, but it's not much. It’s also the secret to this movie's success,… Read More

Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory reviews

December 18, 2023 flawintheiris

I wasn't raised with Roald Dahl, so I come to the adaptations of his work — Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Witches, to name but three — without any preconceived notions or, to put it bluntly, any baked in excitement. As a kid I even missed the first adaptation of Dahl's 1964 book, Charlie… Read More

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre review — Fizzy action cocktail, hold the caring

April 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Guy Ritchie | Written by Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies | 114 min | ▲▲△△△ | Amazon Prime The painful and much postponed journey of this action comedy from bad boy Brit director Guy Ritchie to the (small) screen might make for a more entertaining picture than this one. Apparently, this awkwardly… Read More

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves review — It isn’t magical

April 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein | Written by Daley, Goldstein, and Michael Gilio | 134 min | ▲▲△△△ | Netflix The cinematic history of this globally popular role-playing game isn't exactly stellar. Back in 2000 there was a feature starring Marlon Wayans, Thora Birch, and Jeremy Irons, a theatrical bomb… Read More

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Empire Of Light reviews #TIFF22

September 14, 2022 flawintheiris

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Written and Directed by Rian Johnson | 139 min One of 2019's unalloyed treasures, Knives Out brought ensemble mysteries in an Agatha Christie vein very much back into the mainstream, with a delightful dollop of eating the rich. No shade on Kenneth Branagh's efforts to do the same… 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

20 Best Movies on Canadian Netflix (from the 20th Century)

February 8, 2021 flawintheiris

I don't think this is a secret: Netflix doesn't carry a deep library of quality older cinema. Most folks looking to a streaming service for a classic movie are probably better off subscribing to Amazon Prime — a lot to enjoy there — or the Criterion Channel. (I'd also recommend a look at the library… Read More