Tag Archives: Naomi Watts

The time I spoke with John Sayles

March 31, 2026 flawintheiris

I've been having a bit of a nostalgic week. A good friend visited who I met when I worked in film and TV production in Toronto almost 25 years ago — he's still in production, and is soon expecting to start work with one of Canada's greatest filmmakers. I'm thrilled for him. It made me… Read More

Emmanuelle (2024) review — Beautiful, remote update of erotic drama

August 13, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Audrey Diwan | Written by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski, based on the novel by Emmanuelle Arsan | 107 min | ▲▲▲ | on VOD For those who may not know, or remember, the Emmanuelle series was a wildly popular collection of softcore porn dramas in the 1970s and 1980s, both theatrical and the made-for-TV… Read More

The Friend review — Charming, melancholy New York dog movie

April 10, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Scott McGhee and David Siegel, adapting a book by Sigrid Nunez | 119 min | ▲▲▲ 1/2 One of my favourite movies is Anthony Minghella's Truly Madly Deeply, from 1991. It's about Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a translator and a musician whose partner, Jamie (Alan Rickman), dies unexpectedly, leaving her angry and… Read More

Boss Level review — Groundhog Day as a video-game actioner

July 16, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Carnahan | Written by Carnahan, Chris Borey, and Eddie Borey | 94 min | Amazon Prime When we meet Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo), he's already died and been revived more than 140 times. He's been decapitated, crushed, and knocked into a bus. He's deep into this time loop scenario, so familiar from… 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

Luce review — Enigmatic thriller jabs at big issues

August 22, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Julius Onah | Written by Onah and JC Lee | 109 min | Prime Video Bright and well-spoken, Luce Edgar (Kelvin Harrison Jr) shines at his Arlington, Virginia high school. His poise is even more impressive when you consider his childhood—he lived his first seven years in Eritrea, where he might've been a… Read More

The Glass Castle review — Moving, messy family drama

August 14, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton | Written by Cretton and Andrew Lanham, based on a book by Jeannette Walls | 127 min From the writer-director and star of Short Term 12 comes an entirely different beast, a family melodrama based on a true story: 1980s New York gossip columnist Jeannette Walls (Brie Larson) is engaged to… Read More

I Am Heath Ledger review — Touching memorial to late actor

May 4, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Adrian Buitenhuis and Derik Murray |Written by Hart Snider | 90 min Heath Ledger was one of those Hollywood stars who seemed preordained, effortlessly talented and charismatic. This doc, narrated by the late actor's friends and family, and, to a degree Ledger himself via home footage and interviews, makes that presumption explicit. He… 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

While We’re Young review — Generations unite and divide in Brooklyn

April 27, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Noah Baumbach I'm sure I'm not the first person to remark on this, but to me, at his best, Baumbach is a next generation Woody Allen, though the filmmaker's milieu is among the hipsters of Park Slope and Williamsburg instead of the dustier denizens of the Upper West Side or Fifth Avenue. It helps distinguish… Read More