Tag Archives: Hugo Weaving

The Royal Hotel review — Outback adventure turns to horror

October 6, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Kitty Green | Written by Green and Oscar Redding | 91 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave A review of this film first appeared on FITI during TIFF in September. This exceptional new drama from Kitty Green, the director of The Assistant, reunites her with the breakout star of that one. Julia Garner. Garner's… Read More

The Matrix Trilogy: Revisited

December 24, 2021 flawintheiris

With The Matrix: Resurrections now in cinemas, it seemed an appropriate time to go back to the original films. My 2021 reviews of those movies are below: The Matrix (1999) | Written and Directed by Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski | 136 min | Crave and VOD This is the movie that launched a million memes, internet… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 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

Reviews: Anthropoid, Solace, Tumbledown, A War, The Dressmaker

January 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Anthropoid Directed by Sean Ellis | Written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin | 120 min | On Netflix 1942, Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Two Czech expatriot soldiers Jan (Jamie Dornan) and Josef (Cillian Murphy) parachute into the countryside outside Prague. Their mission: To manage dialogue in painful Czech-accented English and be terribly good-looking in period costume, connect… Read More

Hacksaw Ridge review — Blood, Guts, and Conscientious Objection

November 3, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Mel Gibson | Written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan | 131 min Mel Gibson's fifth feature as director is a roaring return after a 10 year break, one that very much cleaves towards his favourite themes of individual heroism, faith, and martyrdom. You know it's a Gibson when the hero must abide… Read More

Cloud Atlas review

November 4, 2012 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, from the David Mitchell novel I should confess right off the top that I haven't read the book, so am coming to this film fairly blank slate. But I was impressed by the achievement here, which maybe I shouldn't be given the pedigree of… Read More

Captain America: The First Avenger review

August 2, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Johnson, Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, adapted from comics by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby In 2011 we've had five big budget superhero movies, going back to January's Green Hornet and including Thor, X-Men: First Class and Green Lantern in order of release. It's understandable that one might be feeling a little Powers Fatigue, a condition… Read More