Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Christopher Alender
Starring: AJ Bowen | Andrea Cortés | Brigitte Kali Canales | Julia Vera | Sal Lopez | Weston Meredith
Brett says: “This is a tale of possession lodged in brujeria lore in which protagonist Cristina is discovered by locals after visiting to report on local tribal customs in an isolated region of Veracruz. Immediately, she is taken into custody
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jacob Gentry
Starring: AJ Bowen | Brianne Davis | Chad McKnight | Michael Ironside | Scott Poythress
Jason says: “There’s not really a glut of movies like this one out there, although if you spend enough time watching modestly-budgeted science fiction you’ll see a fair number of people try to make something that needs the T axis
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ti West
Starring: AJ Bowen | Amy Seimetz | Gene Jones | Joe Swanberg | Kentucker Audley
Jason says: “The text at the beginning of THE SACRAMENT describes the journalistic style of its protagonists as ‘immersionism’, and I suspect that this is writer/director Ti West’s goal as well – getting the audience inside a situation that it
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: AJ Bowen | Amy Seimetz | Brandon Carroll | Joe Swanberg | Lane Hughes
Jason says: “I don’t want genre filmmaking to become a paint-by-numbers affair, where we as an audience rejoice at basic competence and filmmakers strive to replicate a winning formula. Crime, horror, and the like can be innovative and done with
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