Tag Archives: Valentine Movies

Ticket to Paradise review — Big stars don’t save blah Bali break

October 24, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Ol Parker | Written by Parker and Daniel Pipski | 104 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave You can't deny the dazzling star power of Mr George Clooney and Ms Julia Roberts, Oscar-winners both but more likely to be remembered as movie stars than character actors — or in Clooney's case, as a director.… Read More

Bros review — Gay romcom better at the com than the rom

October 8, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Nicholas Stoller | Written by Stoller and Billy Eichner | 115 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | On Demand This past week Film Twitter has been all up in arms about why Bros bombed at the box office and whether its writer and star, Billy Eichner — of the running up to people on the… Read More

Persuasion review — Breezy, modernized Austen still convinces

July 18, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Carrie Cracknell | Written by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, based on the book by Jane Austen | 107 min |▲▲▲△△| Netflix I was thinking we must be in the midst of an Austen revival, but Austen never really goes away. Just this summer we've seen Fire Island, which has its roots… Read More

Mothering Sunday review — Love and despair in post-war Britain

June 30, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Eva Husson | Written by Alice Birch, adapting a novel by Graham Swift | 110 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | VOD An earlier version of this review appeared on Flaw In The Iris in September 2021 during the FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival Mothering Sunday is a lyrical, gorgeous, and deeply melancholy British drama.… Read More

Fire Island review — You can hang out with all the boys

June 18, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Andrew Ahn | Written by Joel Kim Booster | 105 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Disney + I love the concept here: A gay romcom loosely based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice set on the legendary Fire Island, a longtime, celebrated queer community off Long Island, New York. And, for the most part, it… Read More

Cyrano review — Peter Dinklage and the tunes make this musical sing

March 1, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe Wright | Written by Erica Schmidt, based on the play by Edmond Rostand | 123 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime My first introduction to Cyrano de Bergerac was in English by Steve Martin in the delightful Roxanne, and then in French just a few years later by Gérard Depardieu. Based on… Read More

A Cult Of One: Bright Star

February 28, 2022 flawintheiris

Welcome back to a semi-regular feature on FITI, where I highlight an older film that maybe hasn't received the cultural attention it deserves. With Jane Campion very much in the current conversation as Power Of The Dog receives awards attention, here's a film of hers from more than a decade ago that never earned that… Read More

The Worst Person In The World review — Norwegian romance births new star

February 17, 2022 flawintheiris

The Worst Person In The World (orig. title: Verdens verste menneske) | Directed by Joachim Trier | Written by Trier and Eskil Vogt | 127 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave A version of this review originally appeared on FITI in September 2021 when I caught this film at FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival. The third part… Read More

I’m Your Man review — Surprising insight makes sci-fi romcom something unique

January 6, 2022 flawintheiris

Original Title: Ich bin dein Mensch | Directed by Maria Schrader | Written by Schrader and Jan Schomburg, based on a short story by Emma Braslavsky | 108 min | On Demand | ▲▲▲▲△ I'm starting to wonder if there's nothing Dan Stevens can't do. The guy has the range and chameleon-like mutability of a… Read More

Licorice Pizza review — ’70s nostalgia served on a giant slice

December 30, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson | 133 min | Amazon Prime It's an interesting choice by the renowned American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, now in his 50s, to look backward. Not just make a film set in the early '70s, when he would've been a baby, and where he grew up — the… Read More