Tag Archives: Imogen Poots

Hedda review — Nia DaCosta’s modern update on Ibsen

November 8, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Nia DaCosta | Written by DaCosta, based on the play Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen | ▲▲1/2 | On Prime Nia DaCosta bounces back from the good time but bad box office of The Marvels with an adaptation of Ibsen, something more tragic and arty, with all the associated ambitions. It's best at… Read More

All Of You review — Scifi, romance, melodrama, tears

October 6, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by William Bridges | Written by Bridges and Brett Goldstein | 98 min | ▲▲▲ | Apple TV+ This might be the first film I've seen Goldstein in following the undeniable, inexorable Roy Kent from Ted Lasso, such an unforgettable character. I mean, he was here, he was there, he was every- fucking-where, right? Goldstein… Read More

French Exit review — Pfeiffer impresses throughout, the movie occasionally

April 4, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Azazel Jacobs | Written by Patrick DeWitt, based on his book | 113 min | Netflix An Irish-Canadian co-pro, which explains the Canadian novelist writing the thing, and the presence of veteran Canuck thespian Susan Coyne in a key role, French Exit is a comedy soufflé of sorts — equal parts droll chamber piece… Read More

The Father review — Hopkins and Colman powerful in dementia drama

March 21, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Florian Zeller | Written by Zeller and Christopher Hampton, based on a play by Zeller | 97 min | On Demand We're all too familiar with pandemics in 2021, far too familiar. This particular ongoing pandemic has underlined the frankly abysmal way we treat senior citizens in this country, our elders who are… Read More

Vivarium review — Bleak suburban lockdown horror

April 6, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan | Written by Finnegan and Garret Shanley | 97 min | Crave Marketing materials compared this to Black Mirror, but there's not nearly enough tech anxiety. No, this is an old-fashioned Twilight Zone episode, a nightmarish parable about suburbia as a trap, featuring a couple, British teacher Gemma (Imogen Poots) and… Read More

The Art Of Self-Defence review — The message of modern masculinity

October 9, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Riley Stearns | 104 mins | Crave Plus "Never hold back. Not ever. It'll only make you weak, and you can't be weak anymore. Not in the night classes." This is the lesson Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) learns explicitly from the only woman in his karate dojo, Anna (Imogen Poots), and implicitly… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix — February 2019

February 6, 2019 flawintheiris

Velvet Buzzsaw A deliciously trashy art world satire/horror from Dan Gilroy, the filmmaker behind Nightcrawler and Roman J. Israel. , a picture with a lot more of the edge and unease of the former rather than the prestige aspirations of the latter. It tells the story of a shallow, ambitious, group of nasties; the delightfully named Morf Vandewalt (another… Read More

#AIFF2017 Day 3: The Square, Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, Sweet Virginia

September 17, 2017 flawintheiris

I tend to be impressed by film doing a single thing well and managing to do that one good thing through its running time. Ruben Östlund's Palme d'or-winning The Square manages to be good at doing many things simultaneously, to the point where it's hard to collect all those things in your head at once. I… Read More

Knight Of Cups review — Hypnosis Agog

April 11, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Terrence Malick | 118 min | ▲▲▲▲△ I really tend to resist this kind of observation when writing about the movies, but with the new films from legendary director Terrence Malick, I have to say it: I think in a certain mood, they're hypnotic, beautiful, and moving. In other moods, your mileage may… Read More

Reviews: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Kill Your Darlings, Short Term 12, Top Of The Lake, The Look of Love, I Give It A Year, The Iceman

April 5, 2014 flawintheiris

I'm still writing semi-regular reviews of features and series for Halifax Alternative Weekly The Coast. Check out my thoughts on some recent gems (and semi-precious stones): Ain't Them Bodies Saints Imagine if Kit and Holly in Terrence Malick’s Badlands had been caught early in their spree and Kit was incarcerated. That’s more or less the starting point… Read More