Tag Archives: Will Smith

King Richard review — Authorized sports picture tells inspirational story

December 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green | Written by Zach Baylin | 144 min | In Cinemas Full credit to broadcaster, writer, and filmmaker Tara Thorne for pointing this out on social media: They finally get around to making a biopic of two of the greatest athletes we've seen in our lifetimes, Venus and Serena Williams,… Read More

Bad Boys trilogy review — The regular return of buddy cops

February 5, 2020 flawintheiris

Somehow I've arrived in 2020 without ever having seen a Bad Boys movie. I'm not sure how that happened, but this week I remedied the situation. Here's the review for the first two films, followed by the third one now in cinemas. Bad Boys (1995) | Directed by Michael Bay | Written by George Gallo,… Read More

Gemini Man review — CGI clone war loses on two fronts

October 13, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Ang Lee | Written by David Benioff, Billy Ray, and Darren Lemke | 117 min | Netflix For a chunk of its running time, I was confident Ang Lee's action thriller was gonna be the quintessential three star picture—if I was still giving reviews with star ratings—a perfectly fine action picture from a… Read More

Reviews from the Vault Vol. 7 — Big-Budget Fantasy

August 25, 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

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

Suicide Squad review — A Four-Colour Mess

August 4, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by David Ayer | 123 min | ▲▲△△△ On paper, DC Comics and Warner Brothers are doing the right thing, employing directors with passion and style like Zack Snyder (Watchmen) and David Ayer (Fury) to helm their big-budget superhero movies. So how come they're going wrong? While Snyder delivers the visual sucker punch, he… Read More

Focus review — Stylish, fun, and sometimes unfocussed

February 28, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa The con artist movie is a special kind of beast. It only works if we're fooled along with the mark. Knowing what we're in for, we're pretty hard to fool. So, just having achieved that, having met the intricate demands of this particular thriller subgenre, is… Read More

Winter’s Tale review

March 2, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Akiva Goldsman Written by Goldsman, adapting the novel by Mark Helprin When I saw the trailer for Winter's Tale back in January, I was not impressed. It looked like the cover of a Harlequin Romance come to life. The advance buzz wasn't terribly promising, either. It didn't help that Goldsman, mostly known as… Read More