Tag Archives: Nicolas Cage

The Surfer review — Nicolas Cage hangs loose

June 18, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan | Written by Thomas Martin | 100 min | ▲▲1/2 | on VOD This is a tribute to the Ozploitation movies of the 1970s and '80s, like Ted Kotcheff's Wake In Fright, while also being that self-contained thing that's becoming a genre unto itself: A Nicolas Cage movie. He doesn't discriminate much… Read More

Longlegs review — Grim amalgam of serial killer and supernatural thrillers

July 22, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Osgood Oz Perkins | 101 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime I'm late to the work of Oz Perkins, but I have it on good authority I should be seeing The Blackcoat's Daughter. On the strength of Longlegs I look forward to it. What we have here is evidence of a… Read More

Dream Scenario review — A surreal nightmare with Nicolas Cage FTW

November 27, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kristoffer Borgli | 102 min | ▲▲▲▲△ A version of this review appeared during FITI's coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. Once again A24 produces a film the likes of which we've not seen before, proving the American indie studio is consistently making the best movies in Hollywood. Dream Scenario… Read More

Renfield review — A bloody waste of time

August 24, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Chris McKay | Written by Ryan Ridley, Robert Kirkman, and Ava Tramer | 93 min | ▲▲△△△ Like Cocaine Bear, this was one of those high-concept comedies that came out in the spring and I missed in cinemas, expecting to catch up with it on another platform. I don't think watching Renfield at… Read More

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent review — Cage uncaged!

July 1, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom Gormican | Written by Gormican and Kevin Etten | 107 min | ▲▲▲△△| Netflix I feel like the story of how this movie got made might even be better than the movie itself — and the movie's not bad. For the Nicolas Cage fan, I'd say it might even be essential. For… Read More

Pig review — Nicolas Cage a revelation in swine hunt thriller

December 6, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Michael Sarnoski | Written by Sarnoski and Vanessa Block | 92 min | Amazon Prime Nicolas Cage's reputation precedes him. His career choices veer from the brilliantly idiosyncratic — consider Mandy from a few years back — to the depressingly forgettable. Pig is very much in the former category, a modest feature from… Read More

20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (From the 20th Century)

May 24, 2021 flawintheiris

I started with Netflix, notorious for having a shallow catalogue of older movies, then went on to Disney's new service, Star. Now I'm having a look at Prime, which actually boasts a bigger variety of films 21 years or older. Here's some of the best available now: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) This is Werner… Read More

Color Out Of Space review — Lovecraftian horror a mixed bag

November 5, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Richard Stanley | Written by Stanley and Scarlett Amaris, based on a short story by HP Lovecraft | 111 min | Hoopla Lavinia Gardner (Madeleine Arthur, terrific) is a willful teenager dipping into witchy rituals down at the river in order to cleanse her mother, Theresa (Joely Richardson), of her cancer. They live… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 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

Now on Canadian Netflix: Summer 2019

July 23, 2019 flawintheiris

To The Bone The first feature directed by Marti Noxon, whose name I’ve always associated with Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She also worked on Sharp Objects, the noirish HBO drama with Amy Adams who played a character with an addiction to self-harm. To The Bone is about Ellen (Lily Collins). She's 20 and anorexic, or… Read More