Tag Archives: Wallace Shawn

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made review — Terrific fantasy dramedy

May 14, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom McCarthy | Written by McCarthy and Stephan Pastis, based on Pastis' book | 99 min | Disney + Timmy Failure (Winslow Fegley) is a 11-year-old detective sporting a red scarf because it's not what the normals do. He takes his job as an investigator very seriously, a little like Tracer Bullet, the… 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

Marriage Story review — Divorce drama funny and moving

December 22, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Noah Baumbach | 137 min | Netflix No one wants to say it because Woody Allen's name is poison these days, but watching the movies of romantically linked-in-real-life storytellers Baumbach and Greta Gerwig often feels like a direct offshoot of the Woodster's work, updated for the 21st Century. It's not the… Read More

Book Club review — 50 Shades of Awful

June 3, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Bill Holderman | Written by Holderman and Erin Simms | 104 min Candice Bergen's been nominated for an Oscar and won two Golden Globes, a plateful of Primetime Emmys, and made a powerful impact on American culture with her Murphy Brown TV series—soon to return. Jane Fonda has two Oscars and seven nominations,… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: January 2018

February 4, 2018 flawintheiris

Here is a cross-section of a number of mildly-to-firmly recommended films now available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) Bright Director David Ayers and screenwriter Max Landis. What a pair. They've got to be the most divisive creative team… Read More