Tag Archives: streaming

2067 review — Time-travel yarn gets tangled up

October 1, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Seth Larney | Written by Larney and Dave Paterson | 114 min | Amazon Prime Just this week the theoretical idea of time travel got just a little more credence, but it's always had potent allegorical power in the minds of fantasists. The era I came of age in had plenty of these… Read More

Enola Holmes review — Teen sleuth a cheerful tonic

September 29, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Harry Bradbeer | Written by Jack Thorne, based on the book by Nancy Springer | 123 min | Netflix What if Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill) had a sister (Millie Bobby Brown), a teenager as clever and willful as the mythical detective? What if she was raised in a rambling country mansion by a… Read More

#FIN2020 Review — Deux (Two of Us)

September 23, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Filippo Meneghetti | Written by Meneghetti, Malysone Bovorasmy, and Florence Vignon | 99 min | Hoopla, On Demand I'd read this described as an Amour for same-sex seniors, but that's more than painfully reductive... it's also plain wrong. Deux has something else going on. In its delicate heart it's a late-life lesbian love… Read More

#FIN2020 Review — Percy

September 20, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Clark Johnson | Written by Garfield Lindsay Miller and Hilary Pryor | 100 min | Crave Plus Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Saskatchewan. In the late '90s he was sued by Monsanto, the global agribusiness conglomerate, who accused Percy of growing canola seeds that include their patented tech. He claimed to have… Read More

The Broken Hearts Gallery review — Gen-Y romcom FTW

September 10, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Natalie Krinsky | 108 min | Netflix This film is a hens tooth — a brand new romantic comedy released in cinemas when most, if not all, its fellow genre examples have set up shop on Netflix and other streaming services. That it's getting a big-screen release might be a testament… Read More

The Personal History of David Copperfield review — A joyful adaptation of a classic novel

September 7, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Armando Iannucci | Written by Iannucci and Simon Blackwell, adapting the book by Charles Dickens | 119 min | Crave Plus Words I've used to describe Iannucci's work on films like In The Loop, and The Death of Stalin include "biting" and "hilarious," and I'd carry forward that kind of language for his… Read More

The Burnt Orange Heresy review — Thriller paints secret delights

September 1, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Giuseppe Capotondi | Written by Scott B Smith based on the novel by Charles Willeford | 99 min | On Demand and Crave Plus Here's something that will give you an idea of my cinematic dietary preferences: I'll solidly recommend a flawed European thriller with more than a little Hitchcock and Highsmith in… Read More

Bill and Ted Face The Music review — It’s a non, non, non, non, non heinous sequel

August 31, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Dean Parisot | Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon | 91 min | On Demand and Netflix Back in 2012 I found myself in Los Angeles for work. I visited the Universal Studios Theme Park, and amongst the Simpsons and Jaws rides was a Bill & Ted ride, which in 2012 seemed if not… Read More

Tenet review — Nolan’s time-travel spy thriller almost too complex

August 27, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan | 150 min | Netflix Christopher Nolan's enormous, brilliant movies are never less than ambitious, and the best of them find a balance between the kinetic, the cerebral, and the passionate — I'm thinking of Memento, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, even his Dark Knight trilogy. His newest blockbuster nails… Read More

Stage Mother review — Drag dramedy turns Halifax into San Francisco

August 26, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Thom Fitzgerald | Written by Brad Hennig | 93 min | On Demand and In Cinemas In 2020 it's fair to call Thom Fitzgerald a Nova Scotia filmmaking legend. It was 23 years ago his debut, The Hanging Garden, was an international sensation. In the years since he's carved out a career as… Read More