Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Aidan Delbis | Alicia Silverstone | Emma Stone | J. Carmen Galindez Barrera | Jesse Plemons
Diane says: “Lanthimos’ latest, about bee colony collapse (if you believe that…), is a remake of the Korean black comedy/horror SAVE THE GREEN PLANET. And it’s very good, but not for me. I don’t like having all my muscles clenched
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Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Emma Stone | Hong Chau | Jesse Plemons | Margaret Qualley | Willem Dafoe
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Emma Stone | Jack Barton | Ramy Youssef | Vicki Pepperdine | Willem Dafoe
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Carolyn Saint-Pé | Emma Stone | James Smith | Mark Gatiss | Nicholas Hoult | Olivia Colman | Rachel Weisz | William Dalby
Thom says: “In nine short years Greek director Lanthimos has vaulted to my TOP 10 Living Directors. I’ve been unable to find his first two features MY BEST FRIEND and KINETTA, but his five films that followed have all received
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Emma Stone | J.K. Simmons | John Legend | Rosemarie DeWitt | Ryan Gosling | Tom Everett Scott
Thom says: “LA LA LAND is a pleasant film that will probably be ever remembered as the movie that won a Best Film Oscar only to be announced seconds later that it hadn’t received the prize statuette, but rather the
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Amy Ryan | Damian Young | Ed Norton | Emma Stone | Merrit Wever | Michael Keaton | Susan Blackwell | Zach Galifianakis
Diane says: “Too bad I didn’t get it, before seeing BIRDMAN, that the real-life career of its star, Michael Keaton, peaked with the BATMAN movies. But the story of an actor trying to make a comeback–this time by writing, directing,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Will Gluck
Starring: Amanda Bynes | Dan Byrd | Emma Stone | Patricia Clarkson | Penn Badgley | Thomas Haden Church
Thom says: “I’m a fan of the teen genre but, let’s face it, can anything be done to make it fresh and new? Heaven knows this isn’t that movie. It most resembles MEAN GIRLS, but it’s nowhere as good. There
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