Tag Archives: Julia Roberts

After the Hunt review — Crimes and misdemeanors

October 19, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Luca Guadagnino | Written by Nora Garrett | 138 min | ▲▲▲ It's rare to see a big Hollywood feature tackle a culture war subject — whether it's Diversity, Equality and Inclusion or #MeToo — but After the Hunt touches on both. It's a bit messy, and bit of a melodrama, which is… Read More

From The Vault: The Player (1992)

April 6, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Altman | Written by Michael Tolkin | 124 min | ▲▲▲▲ | Criterion Channel/VOD This review is prompted by the recent arrival of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Apple TV+ show, The Studio, which features a veteran Hollywood exec named Griffin Mill played by Bryan Cranston. No accident that Griffin Mill is… Read More

Leave The World Behind review — Apocalypse now and more later on

December 6, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Esmail | Written by Esmail, based on the novel by Rumaan Alam | 148 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix This is one of those Netflix features that got a week in cinemas in advance of its debut on the streaming giant, but with no hype you'd be forgiven for missing it. That's… Read More

Ticket to Paradise review — Big stars don’t save blah Bali break

October 24, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Ol Parker | Written by Parker and Daniel Pipski | 104 min | ▲▲△△△ | VOD You can't deny the dazzling star power of Mr George Clooney and Ms Julia Roberts, Oscar-winners both but more likely to be remembered as movie stars than character actors — or in Clooney's case, as a director.… 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

Reviews From The Vault Vol. 9 — Thrillers

September 4, 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

On The Perfect London Walk — In Roger Ebert’s footsteps

June 15, 2018 flawintheiris

Here's a post that's admittedly film-adjacent, but I hope you'll indulge me as it's born out of my passion for the movies and those who write about them. This material also crosses paths with the kind of observations frequently found on Stephen Archibald's blog, for which I hope he'll forgive me. If you've listened to… Read More

Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen reviews — Soderbergh’s heist trilogy shines like a diamond

June 7, 2018 flawintheiris

Ocean's Eleven (2001) Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Written by Ted Griffin, from the 1960 screenplay by George Clayton Johnson, Jack Golden Russell, Harry Brown, and Charles Lederer | 116 min | iTunes It seemed like a weird idea at the time: Let's take the not-so-great Rat Pack picture from the untrendy early '60s, and remake… Read More

Money Monster review — The Medium Short

May 14, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Jodie Foster | Written by Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore, and Jim Kouf | 98 min | ▲▲▲△△ Money Monster seems to aspire to a kind of edgy, media-in-the-crosshairs comedy/drama mix. It wants to be like The Big Short, Broadcast News, or even Network. It isn't at all, but that doesn't mean it doesn't deliver some fun for your… Read More

Secret In Their Eyes review — Moody crime remake missing original’s flavours

November 23, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Billy Ray | Screenplay by Billy Ray, adapting The Secret In Their Eyesscreenplay by Juan José Campanella and Eduardo Sacheri | 111 min A warning: Foreknowledge of the Argentine Oscar-winning drama may diminish one's appreciation of this Hollywood remake. But those who have seen the original—here absent the title's definitive article, but otherwise… Read More