Tag Archives: Nicole Kidman

The Northman review — Rage, religion, and po-faced myth

April 29, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Eggers | Written by Eggers and Sjón | 137 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave Welcome to another bleak, violent historical tale from American auteur Robert Eggers, with plenty of his now well-established horror-tinged weirdness — lots of dolly-ins and characters staring into our souls — but all at a much bigger scale.… Read More

Being the Ricardos review — I liked Lucy

December 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin | 131 min | Amazon Prime It's the mid-1950s and comedian Lucille Ball is the biggest thing on TV. Her sitcom I Love Lucy earns 60 million viewers a week. We know this because we're being told as much in the movie by the show's writers, interviewed in a… Read More

Bombshell review — Fox News expose does right by righteous anger

December 18, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Jay Roach | Written by Charles Randolph | 108 minutes | Crave Plus There's a couple things this movie gets really right, that make it worth adding to your holiday cinema binge. One is rage. It does a good job channelling the righteous rage of women who were preyed upon by a powerful… Read More

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 5 — Stinkers

August 5, 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've been doing here on FITI since 2010. I still have a… Read More

Top 10 of 1999

March 19, 2019 flawintheiris

20 years ago, Hollywood had a great 12 months. Maybe it was pre-millennial tension, or just a confluence of great talent and risk-taking producers and studios, but it was a moment that wasn't to be repeated in the years following. I enjoy putting together lists of the best films from years gone by, and the… Read More

Destroyer review — Kidman goes gritty in flawed thriller

January 25, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Karyn Kusama | Written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi | 121 min | Prime Video Karyn Kusama hangs her movie on Nicole Kidman's thousand-yard stare. Kidman is Detective Erin Bell, with some particularly horrendous prosthetics and make-up around those eyes. If we're supposed to assume she's an addict, the film is coy… Read More

The Intouchables (2011) and The Upside reviews — Comedy warms hearts on both sides of the pond

January 10, 2019 flawintheiris

The Intouchables (2011) | Written and Directed by Oliver Nakache and Eric Toledano, adapting the story by Phillipe Pozzo di Borgo | 112 min The Upside | Directed by Neil Burger | Written by Jon Hartmere, based on the script for The Intouchables | Prime Video A massive hit in Europe, The Intouchables is a stone-cold… Read More

Aquaman review — Fishy adventure, splashy fun

December 28, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by James Wan | Written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall, with Geoff Johns | 143 min | Netflix Every once in awhile, following a bunch of self-serious, mediocre films, one comes along that knows it isn't Shakespeare, and doesn't care. It's a good-bad movie, and it embraces its inner cheese and its… Read More

The Killing of a Sacred Deer review — More strangeness from The Lobster filmmaker

November 1, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou | 120 min The Lobster was the picture everyone had to see last year, if only to hold an opinion on its baked-in weirdness. Greek filmmaker Lanthimos' first English-language film brought his unique vision to the world in a big way. His follow-up is… Read More

#AIFF2017 Day 6: Loving Vincent, How To Talk To Girls At Parties

September 20, 2017 flawintheiris

Loving Vincent An animated film that boasts (in its opening crawl) 100 artists hand-painted the thing. I'm not sure what the point is knowing that up front unless to direct viewers to the visuals rather than the somewhat less impressive script. Loving Vincent uses a mix of actors on sets, rotoscopic animation, and CGI to create… Read More