Tag Archives: Rachel McAdams

Send Help review — a showcase for Rachel McAdams’ extraordinary gifts

February 14, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Raimi | Written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift | 113 min | ▲▲▲ There's a few things to say about this Sam Raimi comedy horror that may be relevant to your interests. It's a movie aiming to entertain — and occasionally shock — and succeeds at both of those efforts more… Read More

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review — A big old four-colour mess

May 6, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Raimi | Written by Michael Waldron | 126 min | ▲▲△△△ It's time to recognize that there's something off in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ever since the unparalleled double-whammy of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the features from the House of Ideas have been at best uneven, at worst terrible. Black Widow… Read More

A Decade of FITI reviews: Doctor Strange

February 22, 2022 flawintheiris

I've written thousands of reviews over the (actually more than) 10 years of this blog, so I figured it might be fun to go into the vault and bring dusty, perhaps forgotten reviews back into the light. Expect these to show up around once a week for the next little while. I may lightly edit… Read More

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga review — Funny enough FTW

June 29, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by David Dobkin | Written by Will Ferrell and Andrew Steele | 123 min | Netflix When I saw the running time for this picture, I was genuinely concerned. How many great two hours plus comedies are there? As it happens, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is a little too long,… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 10 — A few more very good movies

October 7, 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

A Brief History of Spy Movies: Part Three

June 29, 2019 flawintheiris

THE LE CARRÉ ADAPTATIONS In the past two posts I review Harry Palmer movies and a dozen spy pictures from 1966 to 2006. This post is devoted to the film adaptations of the godfather of spy novels. Roger Ebert described John Le Carré’s novels as “chess problems in which one solution is elegant and all… Read More

Game Night review — A surprisingly hilarious mainstream comedy

June 17, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein | Written by Mark Perez | 100 mins | on Netflix There's a scene in this picture where a suburban couple, Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams), work to remove a bullet from Max's arm. They're entirely incompetent, and worse, they can barely keep from tossing… Read More

Disobedience review — The heartbreak of choice

May 31, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Sebastian Lelio | Written by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, based on the novel by Naomi Alderman | 114 min | Hoopla, CBC Gem Smoking in movies has changed so much. Where once it was sexy and dangerous, now it signifies something else. Still danger, but also anxiety. Weakness. An addictive personality. Unhealth. Ronit… Read More

Doctor Strange review — Not magical, but the visuals (and Cumberbatch) conjure a win

November 6, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Derrickson | Written by Derrickson, John Spaihts, C. Robert Cargill, based on the Marvel Comics character created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko | 115 min For those not raised on Marvel Comics, Dr Stephen Strange is the fantasy universe's resident Master of Mystic Arts, its top wizard. His comics were the… Read More