Tag Archives: Jack Black

The Knox Office: This year’s holiday movies

December 8, 2024 flawintheiris

I crammed in a bunch of flicks last week, the new seasonal fare in cinemas and on streaming services. I caught up with two that have been in cinemas for a few weeks — Red One, which is a fatally flawed Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson vehicle but maybe not quite as abysmal as reviews have… Read More

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story review — Sharp, goofy takedown of musical biopics

November 9, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Eric Appel | Written by Appel and ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Roku A version of this review appeared on FITI in September from the Toronto International Film Festival. People may not recall that the legendary comedy musician, ‘Weird Al,’ was a film star, briefly, in 1989’s comedy bomb, UHF.… Read More

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood review — Nostalgia trip to the moon

April 12, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Richard Linklater | 97 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix "Science class was so exciting because it was all current events!" American humanist filmmaker Richard Linklater takes us on an animated tour of his childhood in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in this delightful, warm film. It's the late 1960s, a time… Read More

Jumanji: The Next Level review — An OK sequel to a better movie

January 19, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Jake Kasdan | Written by Kasdan, Jeff Pinker, and Scott Rosenberg, based on a book by Chris Van Allsburg | 123 min | Netflix Though I'm surprised to find I never wrote it up on this blog, I did see 2017's Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle—I think on an airplane. It's a good… Read More

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 6 — Quirky Gems

August 7, 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 Streaming on Netflix, Crave, and Prime: June 2019

June 14, 2019 flawintheiris

Knock Down The House | Netflix The inspirational documentary offering evidence that there are still leaders in the United States whose motivations are respectable, responsible, and righteous. The film follows the primary campaigns of four progressive Democrats, all women, all very different from different states, and all of whom are looking to make a difference… Read More

The Holiday (2006) review — The verdict on the popular seasonal romcom

December 17, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed and Written by Nancy Meyers | 132 min | VOD So, this is what happened: A friend and colleague at work and I got talking about Christmas movies. She raved about The Holiday. She says it's a delight, with just the right mix of sweetness and romcom magic, and for those with interest in… Read More

The Muppets review

November 28, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by James BobinWritten by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, based on characters by Jim HensonThe appeal of The Muppet Show is hard to quantify. I'm not talking about the Muppets themselves. It's easy to see why people like them, the cute puppets adored by all ages. But the TV show specifically, the one that… Read More