Tag Archives: Robert Forster

Now on Canadian Netflix — February 2019

February 6, 2019 flawintheiris

Velvet Buzzsaw A deliciously trashy art world satire/horror from Dan Gilroy, the filmmaker behind Nightcrawler and Roman J. Israel. , a picture with a lot more of the edge and unease of the former rather than the prestige aspirations of the latter. It tells the story of a shallow, ambitious, group of nasties; the delightfully named Morf Vandewalt (another… Read More

#FIN2018 reviews — Mandy night at the movies, Colette, What They Had

September 18, 2018 flawintheiris

Though I'd seen it before on a screener, I poked my head into the first Extreme Screening of the festival on Monday, Mandy. I really just wanted to see some of those visuals on the big screen, and get a sense of the audience reactions, but I found couldn't leave. I got there just at… Read More

#AIFF2017 Day 5: Lucky, Small Town Crime, and God’s Own Country

September 19, 2017 flawintheiris

Lucky The death of Harry Dean Stanton barely 72 hours ago made Monday afternoon's screening of his final starring role that much more poignant, and even more so because the film is an old man's rumination on life and his own mortality. It reminded me a little of Paterson, without the poetry or twin iconography,… Read More

Reviews: London Town, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Calvary, London Has Fallen

February 4, 2017 flawintheiris

London Town Directed by Derrick Borte | Written by Matt Brown, based on the screenplay Untitled Joe Strummer Project by Sonya Gildea and Kirsten Sheridan | 92 min | iTunes and VOD Shay Baker (Daniel Huttlestone) is a 14-year-old living in '70s Wanstead, an East London suburb. Dad Nick (Dougray Scott) moves pianos for a… Read More

Olympus Has Fallen review

March 26, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine FuquaWritten by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin BenediktIt's been awhile since I've seen such an egregiously lunkheaded movie as Olympus Has Fallen. Happy to let its talented cast deliver recycled, leaden dialogue and go through the motions of a recycled, leaden plot, its real failing goes beyond that, because a movie can be… Read More

The Descendants review

December 3, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Alexander PayneScreenplay by Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash from a novel by Kaui Hart HemmingsGeorge Clooney is Matt King. Matt is the trustee of a large parcel of land in Hawaii, a place that seems a whole lot like paradise despite Matt's voiceover telling us that everyone's life has rough patches, even… Read More