Tag Archives: Tommy Lee Jones

From The Vault review: The Park Is Mine (1985)

April 3, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern | Written by Lyle Gorch, from a novel by Stephen Peters | 102 min | ▲▲▲△△| Kino Lorber DVD This isn't a lost classic so much as it is an entertaining thriller originally made for TV that may deserve more than being a footnote in the career of star Tommy… Read More

A Decade of FITI reviews: Lincoln (2012)

January 31, 2022 flawintheiris

Hello faithful reader! Carsten here. Having written thousands of reviews over the (actually more than) 10 years of this blog, I figured it might be fun to go into the vault and bring dusty, perhaps forgotten reviews back into the light. Expect these to show up around once a week for the next little while.… Read More

Ad Astra review — A long ride into space

September 21, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by James Gray | Written by Gray and Ethan Gross | 122 min | Crave Plus I was lining up for popcorn at the cinema last week, and behind me, two women noticed the poster for Ad Astra, featuring Brad Pitt against a starry backdrop. "Brad Pitt in space, I'd go see that," said… Read More

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 6 — Quirky Gems

August 7, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

Jason Bourne review — Total recall doesn’t make it memorable

August 1, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Paul Greengrass | Written by Greengrass and Christopher Rouse, based on the character created by Robert Ludlum | 123 min | ▲▲▲△△ In the first decade of the millennia, the Bourne franchise served up an amnesiac assassin whose better nature overcomes his programming, dispatching both foreign agents and his corrupt former bosses in a flurry of terrifically… Read More

Reviews: The Homesman, Men Women & Children, Song One, Gemma Bovery, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Black Sea

May 4, 2015 flawintheiris

A few thoughts on movies now available on VOD, DVD and Blu-Ray The Homesman A powerfully sui generis western, the kind of a story that steps over so many of the generic Hollywood screenwriting conventions you'll never see where it's going. Director and star Tommy Lee Jones adapts a Glendon Swarthout novel about a woman… Read More

Lincoln review

November 25, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven SpielbergWritten by Tony Kushner, adapting Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns GoodwinI walked into Spielberg's newest historical epic expecting a handsome, serious and somewhat sentimental movie (thanks to the director's undeniable skill and irrepressible mushiness), beautiful to see (thanks to cinematographer Janusz Kaminski) with an acting clinic… Read More

Captain America: The First Avenger review

August 2, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Johnson, Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, adapted from comics by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby In 2011 we've had five big budget superhero movies, going back to January's Green Hornet and including Thor, X-Men: First Class and Green Lantern in order of release. It's understandable that one might be feeling a little Powers Fatigue, a condition… Read More