Tag Archives: Kristen Stewart

Crimes of the Future review — Long Live the New Sex

June 14, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David Cronenberg | 107 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | Crave Can we say now, while he's still with us and making movies at this standard, that David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker our national cinema has ever produced? I mean, the mountain of evidence is towering. If you go back more than… Read More

Academy Award Nominations #Reaction

February 9, 2022 flawintheiris

The nominations for the '22 Academy Awards dropped on Tuesday morning, and as with every Hollywood awards season there were expectations met and expectations dashed. There's also the few naysayers who took to social media to say these awards are antiquated and irrelevant. They groused. They whined. They said, "Who cares?" That question's been asked… Read More

Spencer review — Diana’s darkest days

November 8, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Pablo Larraín | Written by Steven Knight | 117 min | Amazon Prime Larraín is the Chilean auteur with a gift for compelling biographies of charismatic figures — Jackie and Neruda being two — as well as the kind of versatility to make movies like last year's electrifying Ema. Here he teams up… Read More

Happiest Season review — A gay and merry holiday treat

December 2, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Clea DuVall | Written by DuVall and Mary Holland | 102 min | Netflix It's Christmas at the Caldwell home, solidly upper-middle class, white, and midwestern. Daughter Harper (Mackenzie Davis) is bringing her partner Abby (Kristen Stewart) to the holiday celebration. The problem is that Harper hasn't come out to her parents —… Read More

Kristen Stewart film reviews: Seberg, Lizzie, JT LeRoy, Underwater

June 4, 2020 flawintheiris

Kristen Stewart is working nonstop these days — she's been in five features in the past three years, the highest profile being Charlie's Angels, with Happiest Season still expected later in 2020. The actor achieved fame through the sparkly vampire-ridden Twilight series, but in recent years has pursued far more interesting and varied feature work.… Read More

Charlie’s Angels (2019) review — See it for the Stewarts

November 18, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Elizabeth Banks | Written by Banks, Evan Spiliotopoulos and David Auburn | 118 min A reboot no one asked for to a movie that wasn't so well received that last time out, the risible Charlie's Angel: Full Throttle from 2003. The prospect of a return to this material is sweetened by Elizabeth Banks,… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 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

#FIN2018 reviews — The Guilty, Bad Reputation

September 17, 2018 flawintheiris

That enormous wooshing sound you may have heard around 3:30 on Sunday afternoon was my exhalation of relief for having survived the Script Development Program Pitch Session. All my fellow workshop participants were terrific, and people say I did OK. It's all a bit of a blur right now. Then I went to see a… Read More

New on Canadian Netflix: August/September 2017

September 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to-solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) Death Note (2017) I was a big fan of Adam Wingard's The Guest (found elsewhere on this month's list), bit… Read More

New On Canadian Netflix: June/July 2017

July 24, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to- solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) *One note: In May I recommended Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, a film when I first saw it back… Read More