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Confess, Fletch review — Procedural comedy FTW

October 29, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Greg Mottola | Written by Mottola and Zev Borow, based on the novel by Gregory McDonald | 98 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix For those who are maybe too young to remember, Fletch was a 1980s comedy franchise starring alleged asshole and former SNL star Chevy Chase. While the two movies, Fletch (1985)… Read More

Moxie review — Well-meaning teen movie, if a bit too neat

March 16, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Amy Poehler | Written by Tamara Chestna and Dylan Meyer, from the novel by Jennifer Mathieu | 111 min | Netflix Vivian (Hadley Robinson) is a junior at Rockport High School. She's an INTJ — Myers-Briggs for introvert — along with her lifelong pal, Claudia (Lauren Tsai). Vivian is also pissed off at… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 10 — A few more very good movies

October 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

Grandma review — Lily Tomlin Rules, OK?

October 22, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Paul Weitz | 79 min Elle is the world's coolest grandmother. She's tattooed, she swears, she's a poet, an out lesbian, and drives a 1955 Dodge Royal. When granddaughter Sage shows up on her front doorstep looking for money for an abortion, you know Grandma's gonna be crotchety, but she's gonna… Read More

50 Shades of Grey review — Gives soft porn a bad name

February 19, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, written by Kelly Marcel from the novel by EL James | 125 min | Netflix, Amazon Prime, Crave I knew this picture was in trouble when early on the heroine of the piece, college student Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), dressed in her unpretentious print blouse, arrives at a phallic glass and… Read More

Magic in the Moonlight review

August 13, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Woody Allen | Amazon Prime While there's a certain inevitability to a new Woody Allen movie—he's made one a year since the early 80s, and was pretty quick about putting them out in the years before that, too—going to see one of his pictures and reviewing it in 2014 nearly feels… Read More