Tag Archives: Paul Giamatti

I Think We’re Alone Now review — World’s end, feeling fine.

August 30, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Reed Morano | Written by Mike Makowsky | 99 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime, VOD Let's talk about the director of this feature for a second because she's had a fascinating journey to feature filmmaking. She comes from years as a cinematographer — you'd think more camera wizards would become filmmakers, but… Read More

Jungle Cruise review — Ersatz adventure gets lost down the river

July 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra | Written by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Josh Goldstein, Michael Green, and John Norville | 128 min | Disney Plus Almost 20 years ago, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's first starring role in a feature was a picture called The Scorpion King, an entertaining spin-off of The Mummy Returns, itself a sequel… Read More

Gunpowder Milkshake review — Feminist, uber-violent actioner a whole lot of fun

July 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Navot Papushado | Written by Papushado and Ehud Lavski | 114 min | Netflix "There's a group of men called The Firm. When they need someone to clean up a mess, they send me." That's how this stylish, candy-neon actioner starts, right in the head of Sam (Karen Gillan), an assassin living in… Read More

A Rosamund Pike Primer: Redux

August 7, 2020 flawintheiris

Since I first wrote about Rosamund Pike, she has strongly avoided the Hollywood A-list, despite it being entirely available to her. Full marks, then, for her left-of centre choices since Gone Girl, in films like A United Kingdom, Hostiles, and especially A Private War. I look forward to her role as Marie Curie in Radioactive,… Read More

The Catcher Was A Spy review — Paul Rudd gets on base

May 31, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Ben Lewin | Written by Robert Rodat, based on the book by Nicholas Dawidoff | 98 min | Netflix Fans of Paul Rudd, and I know there are many, shouldn't miss this oddity in his catalogue: the time where he played a real life Red Sox catcher Morris "Moe" Berg (not the Pursuit… 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

New on Canadian Netflix: August/September 2017

September 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are 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.) Death Note (2017) I was a big fan of Adam Wingard's The Guest (found elsewhere on this month's list), bit… Read More

Morgan review — Pulpy but Satisfying Science Fiction

September 7, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Luke Scott | Written by Seth W. Owen | 92 min. | ▲▲▲△△ Nice to see young directors go into the family business. Consider Sofia Coppola and her many excellent films, or more recently, Brandon Cronenberg's body horror Antiviral, which evoked some of his father David's work. Now we've got Luke Scott, son of Ridley, with Dad… Read More

Love & Mercy review — Excellent vibrations

June 10, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Bill Pohlad, written by Oren Moverman and Michael A. Lerner, based on the life of Brian Wilson. Coming soon on my podcast, Lens Me Your Ears, with Stephen Cooke, is an episode on musical biopics. My arm needed a little twisting on this subject because biopics in general aren't my favourite genre—I always ask… Read More

San Andreas review — California screaming

May 28, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Brad Peyton, Written by Carleton Cuse from a story by Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore A question came to mind while I took in the trailer for this movie: What distinguishes San Andreas from a previous disaster picture like 2012, beside the fact that Dwayne Johnson is a lot more fun to watch these days than John… Read More