Tag Archives: Martin Donovan

The Apprentice review — The con artist in his prime

October 10, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Ali Abbasi | Written by Gabriel Sherman | 120 min | ▲▲▲▲△ A capsule review of this film appeared on FITI in September during #TIFF24 The Donald Trump biopic has arrived in cinemas, despite efforts to stop it. The Donald Trump campaign sent a cease-and-desist letter to the producers, claiming the entire film… Read More

#FIN2020 Review — Percy

September 20, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Clark Johnson | Written by Garfield Lindsay Miller and Hilary Pryor | 100 min | Crave Plus Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Saskatchewan. In the late '90s he was sued by Monsanto, the global agribusiness conglomerate, who accused Percy of growing canola seeds that include their patented tech. He claimed to have… Read More

Tenet review — Nolan’s time-travel spy thriller almost too complex

August 27, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan | 150 min | Netflix Christopher Nolan's enormous, brilliant movies are never less than ambitious, and the best of them find a balance between the kinetic, the cerebral, and the passionate — I'm thinking of Memento, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, even his Dark Knight trilogy. His newest blockbuster nails… Read More

Inherent Vice review — Messily brilliant or simply a mess?

January 10, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, from the Thomas Pynchon novel Inherent Vice is the kind of movie you walk into and it envelops you. You're visiting a world while you're in the cinema. It may not be one you understand. The denizens may speak strange languages and enact peculiar rituals. The universal narrative… Read More