Tag Archives: Paul Rudd

Friendship review — Stay curious!

May 25, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Andrew DeYoung | 100 min | ▲▲▲▲1/2 Maybe fans of I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson's TV series, will have some sense of what to expect with this movie, but I went in blind — just knowing that it is an awkward picture about middle-aged men and friendship. It is that,… Read More

Death of a Unicorn review — Bloody myth goes lame

March 28, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed Alex Scharfman | 107 min | ▲▲ | VOD I really admire the American upstart film studio A24 for investing in talented filmmakers and letting them take big swings. They've done it again here with Alex Scharfman, but the end result is a swing and miss — and that's what sometimes will… Read More

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review — Maybe call someone else this time

March 26, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Gil Kenan | Written by Kenan and Jason Reitman | 115 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave, VOD It's been awhile since I've seen a blockbuster franchise extension as calculated as this new Ghostbusters, and yet it has moments that provide a genuine twang of feeling recalling the 1984 movie that everyone loves. British… Read More

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review — Psychedelic fun with tiny superhero family

February 20, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed | Written by Jeff Loveness | 125 min | ▲▲▲△△ In the past couple of years the vastly successful experiment that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe has lost its way. After the high points of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the new movies haven't had the narrative coherence, urgency, nor the… Read More

The Bob’s Burgers Movie review — The Depressed Simpsons have an adventure

June 17, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Loren Bouchard and Bernard Derriman | Written by Bouchard and Nora Smith | 102 min | ▲▲△△△ | Disney+ Right off I must admit I've never watched the Bob's Burgers TV series, so I recognize I may have a disadvantage compared to folks who know and love these characters. This is more or… Read More

Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters (1984), and Ghostbusters II (1989) reviews

November 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason Reitman | Written by Reitman and Gil Kenan, based on Ghostbusters written by Harold Ramis, Dan Akyroyd, and an uncredited Rick Moranis | 124 min | Netflix Another "legacequel" comes down the pike, and on the surface this seems like the most cynical kind of Hollywood factory product. "Oh, so you whiny Ghostbusters… 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

Clueless, Emma (1996), and Aisha reviews — Jane Austen on the big screen

March 6, 2020 flawintheiris

With Emma, the Jane Austen novel adapted for a feature film opening today, it seemed like the right time to go back to previous movie versions. For a deeper dive, there are a host of takes on TV, including a well-regarded 2009 BBC edition and a TV movie starring a very young Kate Beckinsale. Here… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 8 — Comedies

August 28, 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

Ant-Man and The Wasp review — The incredible shrinking satisfaction of this Marvel franchise

July 8, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed | Written by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, and Gabriel Ferrari | 118 min Trust Marvel Studios to mix it up again, following the afro-futurist adventure of Black Panther and the cosmic drama of Avengers: Infinity War, with a return to what feels like a side-project, a movie with… Read More