Tag Archives: Toni Colette

Juror #2 review — A perfectly cromulent courtroom drama

December 23, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Clint Eastwood | Written by Jonathan A. Abrams | 114 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave Juror #2 is a comfortingly old-school American courtroom drama, complete with a first act of lawyers, witnesses, and jurors, and a second act of deliberation. The thing that's wowing critics is these stories were told frequently in the… Read More

Stowaway review — Anna Kendrick space drama largely effective

April 28, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Penna | Written by Penna and Ryan Morrison | 117 min | Netflix This unheralded and surprisingly suspenseful sci-fi drama arrived last week on streaming with a small, unlikely cast: Toni Colette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, and Canadian Trailer Park Boys veteran Shamier Anderson. If the ship doesn't hold together for… Read More

Clueless, Emma (1996), and Aisha reviews — Jane Austen on the big screen

March 6, 2020 flawintheiris

With Emma, the Jane Austen novel adapted for a feature film opening today, it seemed like the right time to go back to previous movie versions. For a deeper dive, there are a host of takes on TV, including a well-regarded 2009 BBC edition and a TV movie starring a very young Kate Beckinsale. Here… Read More

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 5 — Stinkers

August 5, 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've been doing here on FITI since 2010. I still have a… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix — February 2019

February 6, 2019 flawintheiris

Velvet Buzzsaw A deliciously trashy art world satire/horror from Dan Gilroy, the filmmaker behind Nightcrawler and Roman J. Israel. , a picture with a lot more of the edge and unease of the former rather than the prestige aspirations of the latter. It tells the story of a shallow, ambitious, group of nasties; the delightfully named Morf Vandewalt (another… Read More

Hearts Beat Loud review — Father-daughter picture an unassuming charmer

November 15, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Brett Haley | Written by Haley and Marc Basch | 97 min Imagine if Barry Judd, Jack Black's character from High Fidelity, finally grew up, got together with someone, became a father, and opened his own record store in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Twenty years later he'd probably be Frank Fisher, the guy Nick… Read More

Hereditary review — As creepy as f**k, as advertised

June 10, 2018 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ari Aster | 127 min | Netflix A family living in a lovely, wood-panelled home in Utah is grieving the death of the grandmother. At the funeral Annie (Toni Collette), talks about her mother’s secretive nature. She was estranged from her mother for years, we learn. Back at home, Annie is… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: Spring 2018

May 10, 2018 flawintheiris

Mute (2018) A sci-fi thriller half a mess and half an interesting exercise in style. That it comes from Duncan Jones, the filmmaker responsible for Moon, Source Code, and, yes, Warcraft, hopes were high this would be a strong genre entry, but Mute never hits above its pulpy elements. We're in future Berlin, which looks… Read More

The Way, Way Back review

July 31, 2013 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Nat Faxon and Jim RashBeing 14 is no fun for most of us. There's this diabolical combination of feeling like you know everything about the world, it's all crystal clear in your pubescent brain, and feeling totally adrift and uncertain, especially around the opposite sex. Meanwhile, what you understand of adult… Read More