Tag Archives: Pedro Almodovar

Parallel Mothers review — Almodóvar and Cruz’s masterful maternal melodrama

February 18, 2022 flawintheiris

Original Title: Madres paralelas | Written and Directed by Pedro Almodóvar | 123 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave I was thinking of something film critic Helen O'Hara said on the Empire Magazine Podcast this week, when musing on this year's Academy Awards: All of the nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role went to… Read More

Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) review — Almodóvar returns with charming memoir

November 7, 2019 flawintheiris

This film was expected to screen on Friday, November 8 at Halifax's independent screening series, Carbon Arc—two screenings with tickets sold for both. Without warning, it was pulled by the distributor, Mongrel Media, earlier this week and given to Cineplex. Carbon Arc has replaced it with an award-winning documentary about Syria, The Cave, Please go… 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