Tag Archives: Tim Robbins

Bull Durham review — Baseball classic is just as good 32 years later

March 26, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Ron Shelton | 108 min | Hoopla In an effort to highlight films available on various streaming services, here's a review of something on Hoopla, which makes films available online for holders of a Halifax Public Libraries card. Isn't summer great? Remember what summer is like? This feels like it's been… Read More

Dark Waters review — A bleakly devastating case of corporate evil

December 10, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Todd Haynes | Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Mario Correa, based on the New Yorker article by Nathaniel Rich | 126 min | Crave Plus Without overstating it, if you had any doubt previously about whether large corporate entities like the American chemical giant DuPont are machines that destroy peoples' lives, this film… Read More

New On Canadian Netflix: June/July 2017

July 24, 2017 flawintheiris

Here are a cross-section of a number of mildly-to- solidly recommended films recently made available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) *One note: In May I recommended Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, a film when I first saw it back… Read More

A Cult Of One: Code 46

January 14, 2017 flawintheiris

Welcome back to a semi-regular feature—though I realized today that it's been more than two years since I last did one of these—on FITI called ” A Cult of One,” where I highlight an older film that doesn't get much love but is worth discovering. Directed by Michael Winterbottom | Written by Frank Cotterell Boyce… Read More

Green Lantern review

June 15, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Martin CampbellWritten by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Mark Guggenheim and Michael GoldenbergIt's not even July yet and we've had three superhero movies. Can you believe it? And of all of them, this is probably the least likely and thus offering the most curiosity from comic fans. A Green Lantern movie. How weird is… Read More