Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Aimee Lou Wood | Alex Sharp | Bill Nighy | Lia Williams | Tom Burke | Zoe Boyle
Brett says: “Bill Nighy plays Mr. Williams in an English adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s IKIRU. Mr. Williams has been a proper gentleman bureaucrat during his many years employed at the County Hall office. The tradeoff is that it has been
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Alex Sharp | Eddie Redmayne | Frank Langella | Jeremy Strong | John Carroll Lynch | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Mark Rylance | Sacha Baron Cohen | Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Philip says: “Aaron Sorkin’s (The West Wing) THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 fictionalizes the ‘1969 trial of seven defendants charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the countercultural protests in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: David Wnendt
Starring: Alex Sharp | David Paymer | Elisa Kibler | Fridtjov Såheim | Gillian Anderson | Jenny Slate | Jessica Hecht | Justus von Dohnányi | Zach Galifianakis
Chris says: “I applaud Jenny Slate for toning down her usual quirkiness a few notches, but apart from the stunning cinematography and maybe David Paymer’s incendiary speech at his daughter’s wedding, nothing here makes much of a lasting impression. 2
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