Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: AJ Edwards
Starring: Braydon Denney | Brit Marling | Cameron Mitchell Williams | Diane Kruger | Jason Clarke | Wes Bentley
Thom says: “This is the debut film from director Edwards and his love for the project is evident throughout this pastoral work. It takes place in 1817 in Indiana where the young Abe Lincoln is growing up over a 3-year
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Brit Marling | Ellen Page | Patricia Clarkson | Shiloh Fernandez | Toby Kebbell
Chris says: “Serviceable—that’s the word I kept thinking of throughout this thriller in which an intelligence agency operative (Brit Marling) infiltrates herself within an eco-terrorist group that targets the agency’s corporate clients. I’m not saying this film, co-written by Marling
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Anna Kendrick | Brendan Gleeson | Brit Marling | Chris Cooper | Julie Christie | Nick Nolte | Richard Jenkins | Robert Redford | Sam Elliott | Shia LaBeouf | Stanley Tucci | Stephen Root | Susan Sarandon | Terrence Howard
Jason says: “THE COMPANY YOU KEEP can play a bit like a brute-force attack at times – sure, it’s kind of slow at times and eventually the audience winds up a couple steps ahead of the protagonist, but every ten
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.75
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Starring: Brit Marling | Christopher Denham | Davenia McFadden | Kandice Stroh | Nicole Vicius | Richard Wharton
Thom says: “I feel like an old crab not liking this more but it is becoming abundantly clear that I takes a lot of convincing for me to get into the conscience of the cult. Here, a couple ingratiate themselves
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Starring: Brit Marling | Laetia Casta | Nate Parker | Richard Gere | Stuart Margolin | Susan Sarandon | Tim Roth
Chris says: “When you have a lead character whose actions are as extremely despicable as those of Robert Miller, you need an actor so rakishly charming as to avoid alienating your audience. Aging like fine cheese, silver-haired Richard Gere nearly
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mike Cahill
Starring: Brit Marling | DJ Flava | Matthew-Lee Ehrlbach | Meggan Lennon | William Mapother
Jason says: “I’m not sure which part of ANOTHER EARTH annoys me more – the terrible science or the weird relationship that develops over the course of the film. Though stranger things than the latter have happened in real life,
Read the review...