Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Adrien Brody | Bryce Dallas Howard | Joaquin Phoenix
Rob says: “A purveyor of film-flammery like Michael Moore is, quite rightly, called to task when he presents a story in a lazy and disingenuous manner, and so, too, shall M. Night Shyamalan. The writer/director/producer of the epic fluke THE
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Adrien Brody | Ed Stoppard | Emilia Fox | Michal Zebrowski
Laura says:”Polanski is quick to establish Wladyslaw’s determination not to be silenced by his continuing to play Chopin as the recording studio he inhabits is destroyed by German bombs. Brody quietly and confidently inhabits Szpilman in one of the best
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Adrien Brody | Elpidia Carrillo | Jack McGee | Monica Rivas | Pilar Padilla
Michael says: “This impressive film by British director Ken Loach hits pretty hard. Two Latina sisters work as janitors in L.A. When the possibility of unionization comes up, alliances are torn apart and secrets uprooted, but in the end, family
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Charles Shyer
Starring: Adrien Brody | Hilary Swank | Jonathan Pryce | Simon Baker
Laura says: “While the story certainly is of interest, it is consistently undermined. Jonathan Pryce is entertaining as the debauched Cardinal whose ambitions are frustrated by Marie Antoinette’s hatred. Yet the movie plays him for a buffoon with a clandestine
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