Tag Archives: Kevin Smith

Chasing Chasing Amy review — Pop culture doc has a dark side

January 17, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Sav Rodgers | 95 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | Kanopy, Hoopla What if a film you love, one that helped you assemble your identity, has become culturally problematic? If you're burgeoning filmmaker, Kansas-native Sav Rodgers, you make a documentary about how important the film was to you, and also how the people… Read More

The 4:30 Movie review — Kevin Smith’s teen movie (that isn’t Mallrats)

October 28, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kevin Smith | 87 min | ▲▲▲△△ | VOD, Hoopla The best Kevin Smith movies are the autobiographical ones. Even the Angels And Demons comedy Dogma plumbs his personal relationship with both Catholicism and comic books. (Another truth of his oeuvre is that Jay and Silent Bob are always better as… Read More

Clerks III review — Kevin Smith goes home in sentimental, rote comedy

October 2, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kevin Smith | 115 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave Let me get this out there for the record: I like Kevin Smith. He's a Gen-X filmmaker who built his career on bubble gum, credit, swears, sharp and hilarious dialogue, and pop culture. I appreciate his storytelling on stage and in podcasts… Read More

Scream series 1-4 review

January 17, 2022 flawintheiris

I saw the original Scream when it first showed in cinemas 25 years ago and I thought it was... fine. At the time I recognized what master horrormeister Wes Craven and his collaborators were doing — a clever and ironic take on all the horror tropes and cliches Craven indulged in and exploited in earlier films… Read More

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot review — Snoochy disappointments

October 16, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kevin Smith | 95 min The peak of the View Askew-niverse was 20 years ago—let that sink in for a second. In the American indie revolution of the '90s, New Jersey writer-director Kevin Smith was a peer of Quentin Tarantino and Richard Linklater. His movies were instrumental in making comic book… Read More

Reviews from the Vault: Vol. 2 (Atlantic Film Festival Edition)

August 31, 2015 flawintheiris

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called 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

Star Wars Episode VII, JJ Abrams and my host of complicated, mixed feelings on all of this

January 26, 2013 flawintheiris

If you're in the Nerderatti, you'll have heard the news: JJ Abrams has been hired by Disney to direct a Star Wars movie, the first of three new features to continue the space opera past Return of the Jedi. What to make of this? I've been letting it all seep in and need to write it… Read More

Top 10 Movies of 2008

August 30, 2012 flawintheiris

Continuing my look back to the years before I became the Mad Blogger What Blogs at Midnight, here's my thoughts on the best movies of 2008. CAPS where my 2012 self felt the need to editorialize... there are about five in my Honourable Mentions list that deserved top-ten status. Oh well. I had no trouble… Read More

Kevin Smith’s 10 movies reviewed

March 13, 2012 flawintheiris

Oh, yeah. I forgot to link to this. Here are my thoughts on Kevin Smith's cinematic output, in a feature I wrote up at The Coast. I wrote about the first nine, while Matthew Ritchie covered Red State, which remains unseen by me. Read More

Thoughts on An Evening With Kevin Smith in Halifax

November 8, 2011 flawintheiris

First off, he's nowhere near as fat as some airlines would lead one to believe.I mean, seriously. The size of some people they squeeze into those seats, and they had a problem with Smith? He was no bigger than your average Nova Scotian man, many of whom are his fans. He has a lot of… Read More