Tag Archives: Mark Ruffalo

Dark Waters review — A bleakly devastating case of corporate evil

December 10, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Todd Haynes | Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Mario Correa, based on the New Yorker article by Nathaniel Rich | 126 min | Crave Plus Without overstating it, if you had any doubt previously about whether large corporate entities like the American chemical giant DuPont are machines that destroy peoples' lives, this film… 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

Thor: Ragnarok review — The God of Thunder lightens up

November 3, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Taika Waititi | Written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost | 130 min It's the third Thor movie. Can you believe it? If I could go back in time and tell 10-year-old Carsten we'd have three Thor movies by 2017, not to mention all the Iron Man, Avengers, and X-Men movies,… Read More

Spotlight review — Celebrating the power of the press

November 26, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom McCarthy | Written by McCarthy and Josh Singer | 128 min About 15 years ago a group of investigative reporters from the Boston Globe started to dig into reports of Catholic priests abusing children, and that the executive in the diocese were complicit in covering it up, relocating the priests to other parishes… 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

Avengers: Age of Ultron review — The biggest, but not necessarily the best

May 1, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Joss Whedon, from the Marvel Comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby After 10 movies set in this particular Marvel Cinematic Universe, we know these costumed folks now. They're fun to spend time with, what with the jokes and fighting and punching. But the filmmakers also have the added pressure of… Read More

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One review

March 31, 2015 flawintheiris

This summer Phase Two of Marvel's cinematic universe will conclude with Avengers: Age of Ultron and Antman. It's the second part of an increasingly sprawling series of connected films. The first began back in May 2008 with Iron Man, bringing to the world a host of Marvel superheroes as a kid I never would have dreamed I'd get to… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2014: Day Six, with Muppets, teen movies, and Steve Carell

September 17, 2014 flawintheiris

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story was programmed twice at this year's AFF. I saw the second screening on Tuesday morning as part of the Viewfinders program. Interestingly, the audience was almost entirely adults, some with touches of silver in their hair. Is this evidence that we are, in fact, in the Age… Read More

Begin Again review

July 14, 2014 flawintheiris

Written and directed by John Carney Eight years ago, Irish filmmaker and musician Carney directed a wonderful little film called Once, about a longtime busker who takes a young pianist under his wing. It was a shot-on-a-shoestring delight, and the song that brought them together went on to win an Oscar. Carney made another little-seen Irish movie,… Read More

The Avengers review

May 5, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Joss Whedon Written by Whedon and Zak Penn From the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby I'm at a bit of a loss to describe the scale of this thing, this Avengers movie. It's been in the works for some time, going back to Iron Man and Hulk in 2008.… Read More