Tag Archives: streaming

Rye Lane review — The freshest romcom in ages

April 13, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Raine Allen-Miller | Written by Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia | 82 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | Disney + Dom (David Jonsson) has just been dumped by his girlfriend who cheated on him with his best friend. When we meet him he's crying his heart out in an art gallery's unisex bathroom. Yas (Vivian… Read More

Riceboy Sleeps review — An essential Canadian story of the struggle to be Canadian

April 10, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Anthony Shim | 117 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave It's 1990. A young woman, So-Young (Choi Seung-yoon), has come to Canada from South Korea, following the suicide of her husband, with her son Dong-Hyun (Dohyun Noel Hwang), who's just going into Grade One. You really feel for the kid — the… Read More

Tetris review — The fun’s in the game play

April 10, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon S Baird | Written by Noah Pink | 118 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Apple TV+ With his collaborators, Haligonian screenwriter and filmmaker Noah Pink has delivered a surprisingly entertaining tale of the backstory of Tetris, the Russian-designed video game that's spent more than 30 years consuming the work and extracurricular time of… Read More

Simulant review — Replicant cinema

April 8, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by April Mullen | Written by Ryan Christopher Churchill | 95 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave For awhile now I've been impressed by the influence of the Charlie Brooker science fiction show, Black Mirror. Since its debut as a deeply cynical but scarily prophetic tech-anxiety sci-fi series, I've detected the reach of its potent… Read More

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves review — It isn’t magical

April 5, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein | Written by Daley, Goldstein, and Michael Gilio | 134 min | ▲▲△△△ | Netflix The cinematic history of this globally popular role-playing game isn't exactly stellar. Back in 2000 there was a feature starring Marlon Wayans, Thora Birch, and Jeremy Irons, a theatrical bomb… Read More

Spiderhead review — Too obvious execution betrays interesting concept

April 1, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Joseph Kosinski | Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, based on the short story by George Saunders | 106 min | ▲▲△△△ | Netflix What we have here is a little sci-fi drama spiked with tech anxiety, very much in the style of Black Mirror, an inspiration we’re seeing a lot of… Read More

Luther: The Fallen Sun review — Starts well, then crashes and burns

March 30, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Jamie Payne | Written by Neil Cross | 129 min | ▲▲△△△ | Netflix The only way to say the name of this movie's lead is, "LOOFAH", because that's how Idris Elba says it. I'm still scratching my head over that title. I faithfully watched the Luther series over its five seasons and very… Read More

John Wick: Chapter 4 review — The Skyfall of the John Wick franchise

March 27, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Chad Stahelski | Written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch, based on characters by Derek Kolstad | 169 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime and Crave When John Wick first found his bloody path to the big screen about a decade ago, it was a mid-budget indie action picture with a 50-year-old Keanu… Read More

65 review — Adam Driver + Dinosaurs. What’s not to like?

March 23, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods | 93 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave You know what you're getting here in the opening moments when text across the screen suggests we're visiting a time before "the advent of mankind." Putting aside the tiresome gendered language, moments later we're introduced to a family on… Read More

Geographies of Solitude review — Sable Island paradise

March 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Jacquelyn Mills | 103 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | CBC Gem We barely hear a voice for the first 10 minutes of this documentary. Instead, we get the pleasure of images and sounds from Sable Island, the almost mythical crescent sandbar off the coast of Nova Scotia, home to seals and horses and Zoe… Read More