Tag Archives: Viggo Mortensen

The Dead Don’t Hurt review — Vicky Krieps shines in Viggo Mortensen’s western love story

July 15, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Viggo Mortensen | 129 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Digital and VOD A love story where in the first scene one of the lovers dies — Viggo Mortensen's second effort as a director (he also writes, produces, and wrote the gorgeous score) is a graceful arthouse western, head and shoulders above the… Read More

Crimes of the Future review — Long Live the New Sex

June 14, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David Cronenberg | 107 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | VOD Can we say now, while he's still with us and making movies at this standard, that David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker our national cinema has ever produced? I mean, the mountain of evidence is towering. If you go back more than… Read More

#FIN2020 Opening Night Gala Review — Falling

September 18, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Viggo Mortensen | 112 min Oscar-nominated actor and movie star Viggo Mortensen tries his hand as an auteur with an international co-pro domestic drama. A huge disappointment, it's a film entirely removed from real life. Willis, played by Lance Henriksen, is a senior struggling with dementia and an endless supply of… Read More

Green Book review — A lot of white people will like it

November 27, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Peter Farrelly | Written by Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, and Brian Hayes Currie | 129 min There's a lot to admire in Green Book. This is a handsome production, well-shot, with great era details. It has two committed and capable leads, telling a story based on actual events in the American south of the early… Read More

Reviews from the Vault: Vol. 2 (Atlantic Film Festival Edition)

August 31, 2015 flawintheiris

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called 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

The Two Faces of January review — A stylish Patricia Highsmith potboiler (Not In Cinemas)

October 6, 2014 flawintheiris

Here's a film now available on one of the alternative platforms—Netflix, DVD, Blu-Ray, VOD, iTunes, what have you—that didn't open in local cinemas. I'll be reviewing these releases and branding them with my NOT IN CINEMAS label to distinguish them from what's playing on Cineplex screens locally. Halifax is considered a small market by national… Read More

Top 10 Movies of 2007

August 29, 2012 flawintheiris

Yes, yes, I know. It is August 2012. But as I roll up to the second birthday of Flaw In The Iris at the end of this week, I'm looking back at film-related stuff I did in the days before the inception of this venue. I used to have an hour every week on CKDU… Read More

A Dangerous Method review

January 15, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by David Cronenberg Written by Christopher Hampton, from his play A Talking Cure, which was adapted from the book A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr. I have really been enjoying the Viggo Mortensen era of David Cronenberg's work. Mortensen has starred in the past three Cronenbergs, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises and… Read More

10 Great Christopher Walken roles

November 22, 2011 flawintheiris

image by Martin Schoeller Christopher Walken is one of those actors who in his older age is defined by his oddness, by all the people who do impressions of him. Kevin Spacey, Kevin Pollack and Jay Mohr have gotten a lot of mileage on impersonating the guy. Just head over to YouTube if you don't… Read More