Tag Archives: streaming

Moxie review — Well-meaning teen movie, if a bit too neat

March 16, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Amy Poehler | Written by Tamara Chestna and Dylan Meyer, from the novel by Jennifer Mathieu | 111 min | Netflix Vivian (Hadley Robinson) is a junior at Rockport High School. She's an INTJ — Myers-Briggs for introvert — along with her lifelong pal, Claudia (Lauren Tsai). Vivian is also pissed off at… Read More

Death of a Ladies’ Man review — In love we disappear

March 12, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Bissonnette | Written by Bissonnette, with Bobby Theodore as story consultant | 100 min | On Demand McGill professor Samuel O'Shea (Gabriel Byrne, increasingly grizzled at almost 70) arrives home one afternoon to discover his wife, Linda (Carolina Bartczak), fucking another guy. Upset, he goes back to his first love, whiskey, and… Read More

Stray review — It’s the dog’s life

March 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Elizabeth Lo | 72 min | Carbon Arc Cinema Five years ago when an audience could gather together in person in the screening room at the Museum Of Natural History on Summer Street, Carbon Arc Cinema programmed a documentary called Kedi about cats living on the streets of Istanbul. A delight for feline… Read More

My Salinger Year review — New York writer makes it after all

March 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Philippe Falardeau | Written by Falardeau, based on the novel by Joanna Smith Rakoff | 101 min | Crave Plus There's the Coming Of Age movie, the Ambitious Youth Comes To The Big City movie, and the Fish Out Of Water movie, and My Salinger Year is a cross section of all three.… Read More

His House review — Refuge no respite from ghosts

March 4, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Remi Weekes | Written by Weekes, Felicity Evans, and Toby Venables | 93 min | Netflix It's a horror, but initially, the horror comes from the way the English system treats a couple, Bol and Rial Majur (Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku), refugees who've escaped from South Sudan, made the dangerous journey across… Read More

I Care A Lot review — Crime comedy full of wonderfully loathsome people

March 2, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by J Blakeson | 118 min | Amazon Prime in Canada Marla Grayson is a terrible person. I mean, one of the worst ever in a feature film. I'd put her up there with the dude who eats people in Silence Of The Lambs, both bad lieutenants, any Sith Lord you'd care to… Read More

Lapsis review — Amusing sci-fi satire connects

March 1, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Noah Hutton | 108 min | Carbon Arc Cinema A deliciously grim tech comedy, Lapsis imagines a near future — which is today, let's face it — where grunt workers who labour for a massive computer conglomerate compete against each other, and automatons, by stringing cables through the woods between cube… Read More

Minari review — Lovely and inclusive immigrant family drama

February 26, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Lee Isaac Chung | 115 min | Crave What's special about this picture is how it manages to nail a certain universality. Based on the filmmaker's own childhood memories, it's the story of a Korean family in the 1980s moving into a mobile home in a field in Arkansas. Jacob Yi… Read More

The Mauritanian review — Injustice exposed in post-9/11 thriller

February 25, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Kevin Macdonald | Written by Michael Bronner, Rory Haines, and Sohrab Noshirvani, based on the book Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Salahi | 129 min | Crave With this film following 2019's The Report and Official Secrets, Hollywood is still mining stories from the ways in which the American military industrial complex overreached… Read More

Saint Maud review — An intense exploration of religious fervour

February 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Rose Glass | 84 min | On Demand Rose Glass' first feature is a stunner. It's a psychological thriller flecked with bloody, body horror notes — a story told through the experience of a deeply unreliable narrator. Maud (Morfydd Clark), as we learn, isn't even her real name. She's a home… Read More