Tag Archives: Keri Russell

Cocaine Bear review — Something of a phenomenon (baby)

August 1, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Elizabeth Banks | Written by Jimmy Warden | 95 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime Cocaine Bear is an entirely unlikely reunion of cast from The Americans. To recommend it only for that would be a mistake, but it's definitely worth noting the movie features Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, and Matthew Rhys, though… Read More

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker review — It’s better than we had a right to expect

December 20, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by JJ Abrams | Written by Abrams and Chris Terrio, with Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow | 141 min Overnight doesn't feel like enough time to have the final film in this 42-year-saga settle in. It's just too big, with too much going on. But that's to the blockbuster's credit. Star Wars: The Rise… 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

Mission: Impossible series review

July 28, 2015 flawintheiris

My mother loved the 1960s TV series, created by Bruce Gellar. I remember that much about it, and that it starred, at one time or another, Leonard Nimoy, Sam Elliot, Greg Morris, Barbara Bain and Martin Landau—who I knew better as a kid from Space: 1999—and Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, the guy calling the… Read More

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review

July 13, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Reeves, Written by Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, from a novel by Pierre Boulle I enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes, released back in 2011. It seemed an unlikely prequel to a 43-year-old film, but as a slab of b-movie entertainment I thought it worked. My biggest beef with… Read More