Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anna Rose Holmer | Saela Davis
Starring: Aisling Franciosi | Declan Conlon | Emily Watson | Marion O'Dwyer | Paul Mescal
Chris says: “Emily Watson always had a bit of an old soul in her and she’s aged brilliantly into the archetype you’d want to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders. She also adds heft to a beautifully
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Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Celia Imrie | Charles Dance | David Morrissey | Emily Watson | James Frain | Rachel Griffiths | Rupert Penry-Jones
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Adrian Rawlins | Emily Watson | Jean-Marc Barr | Katrin Cartlidge | Stellan Skarsgård
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Amma Assante
Starring: Emily Watson | Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Matthew Goode | Sam Reid | Sarah Gadon | Tom Wilkinson
Jason says: “I don’t watch a lot of costume dramas or read the sort of classic romances that are this film’s close relations, so I’m not sure how often they are focused on matters of ritual and plotting and how
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Daisy von Sherler Mayer
Starring: Adam Brody | Emily Watson | Jennifer Morrison | Kristen Bell | Mia Maestro | Zoe Kazan
Jason says: “Based upon Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s film version, SOME GIRL (S) is a play with a rather tortured premise, and I suspect that actors who like a challenge are drawn to it for that. Sure, Neil LaBute gives
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Marleen Gorris
Starring: Ben Miller | Benjamin Sadler | Emily Watson | Ian Hart | Jimmy Yuill | Pam Ferris | Ulrich Tukur
Diane says: “I have a problem with Holocaust movies! I can’t help but consider them as entertainment and not as windows into the horror of what happened. When SCHINDLER’S LIST came out, my reaction was ‘movies shouldn’t be made about
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Sophie Barthes
Starring: David Straithairn | Dina Korzun | Emily Watson | Katheryn Winnick | Lauren Ambrose | Paul Giamatti
Michael says: “Okay, I saw a good movie last night. And it was one I knew very little about going in, which is always fun. COLD SOULS stars Paul Giamatti as… well, Paul Giamatti! Paul is rehearsing ‘Uncle Vanya’ and
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Richard E. Grant
Starring: Celia Imrie | Emily Watson | Fenella Woolgar | Gabriel Byrne | Julie Walters | Miranda Richardson | Nicholas Hoult
Hilary says: “Actor Richard E. Grant’s writing/directing debut is an autobiographical sketch of his upbringing in Swaziland, on the cusp of independence from British occupation. Nicholas Hoult (ABOUT A BOY) is quite good as Ralphie, son of Harry Compton (Gabriel
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Emily Watson | Guy Pearce | Ray Winstone | Tom Budge
Chris says: “This Aussie western sports the first screenplay to be written by goth rock legend Nick Cave. Like a good number of the man’s songs, it’s darkly poetic, somewhat macabre, heavily death-obsessed, more than a little bloody and ponderously
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Adam Sandler | Emily Watson | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bob says: “I’ve seen this film twice now, and I’m still not sure what to think. It’s clearly an extension of the idea Anderson so overtly espoused in MAGNOLIA — that the unexpected can indeed happen. This time he managed
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