Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Douglas Smith | Maia Jae Bastidas | Mark O'Brien | Rebecca Liddiard
Michael says: “Atom Egoyan’s first dozen or so films were all fascinating, compelling works that solidified him as one of those filmmakers whose work I will always see. His last four or five have been more erratic, or worse, sometimes
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Director: David Koepp
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Avery Tiiu Essex | Colin Blumenau | Kevin Bacon
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Bill Hoag | Cedric the Entertainer | Ethan Hawke | Michael Gaston | Philip Ettinger | Victoria Hill
Chris says: “I believe any work of art has the potential to be both ridiculous and sublime, however rarely one achieves such a tricky balance is. To its credit, FIRST REFORMED is often firmly the latter—the austere opening credits sequence with
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Jeffrey Friedman | Rob Epstein
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Bobby Cannavale | Chris Noth | Hank Azaria | James Franco | Peter Sarsgaard | Sharon Stone | Wes Bentley
Chris says: “Linda Lovelace, star of the seminal mainstream porno DEEP THROAT, had a life story seemingly tailor-made for a biopic: plucked from obscurity, she became an instant, infamous celebrity, but paid dearly for it. LOVELACE revels in that dichotomy,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Cillian Murphy | Johnny Galecki | Justin Timberlake | Shyloh Oostwald
Thom says: “Director Niccol was responsible for mediocre sci fi fare GATTACA, & S1mOne so I had no reason to expect more from this new ‘in-the-future’ feature but I did. I did like the novel idea that all humankind lived
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Julianne Moore | Liam Neeson | Max Thieriot | Nina Dobrey
Bruce says: “CHLOE is a reworking of Anne Fontaine’s 2003 French film NATHALIE which starred Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu and Emanuelle Béart. And CHLOE is one of the rare films that is more inspired than its antecedent. The plot is
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Rating: 1.3 cats
Director: Mark S. Waters
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Amy Poehler | Ana Gasteyer | Lacey Chabert | Lindsay Lohan | Lizzy Caplan | Rachel McAdams | Tim Meadows | Tina Fey
Bruce says: “Yes, I did read Janet’s MEAN GIRLS review which I thoroughly enjoyed, swearing at the time that I would never see this film. While shopping for lighter fare (not always my area of expertise) MEAN GIRLS was recommended
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