Tag Archives: Michael Caine

New on Canadian Netflix: April 2017

April 24, 2017 flawintheiris

Here's 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.) For me, Netflix is a go-to usually to watch films I’ve already seen or to give the odd TV… Read More

Youth review — The Artist as an Old Man

January 14, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino | 124 min | ▲▲▲△△ Sorrentino's last film, the sumptuous Italian drama The Great Beauty, was something to see (it had everything from orgies to a giraffe) but a little hard to care about. It featured Toni Servillo as a 65-year-old writer unable to come to terms with the… Read More

Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy review

July 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Watching Interstellar for a third time, I felt very much like I had a sense of what Christopher Nolan was going for. But it took three views to really feel like I got it. I love that, when movies have enough depth and complexity that it takes more than one viewing to fully grasp what's… Read More

Kingsman: The Secret Service review — Spy movie pastiche delivers OTT violence

February 14, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Matthew Vaughn, written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, from a comic by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons Vaughn and Millar were responsible for Kick-Ass, the indie superhero movie. It had a lot going for it, but it left a bad taste in my mouth—aside from being genuinely kick ass in its action sequences and… Read More

Interstellar review — A grand (and sometimes head-scratching) space adventure

November 8, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Christopher Nolan, written by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan | Netflix Steven Spielberg reportedly once said if he could go back he'd change the ending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Once Spielberg had kids, he realized the Richard Dreyfuss character, Roy Neary, would never have left his family behind to go into space… Read More

The Dark Knight Rises review

July 22, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Christopher NolanWritten by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan, from a story by Christopher Nolan andDavid S. Goyer. Batman was created by Bob Kane in DC Comics.And so it ends, eh? When Christopher Nolan was handed the reins to the pointy-eared vigilante franchise and Batman Begins came out in 2005, the character could only go… Read More

Cars 2 review

June 26, 2011 flawintheiris

Click here for my review of the new Pixar offering on The Coast website. Read More