Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Michael Grandage
Starring: Emma Corrin | Gina McKee | Harry Styles | Linus Roache | Rupert Everett
Chris says: “My policeman has a first name, It’s H-A-R-R-Y; My policeman has a second name, It’s S-T-Y-L-E-(S); Oh, he struggles playing aloof and gay, And the adapted screenplay’s just okay, But David Dawson steals this film; He’s better in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Gina McKee | Mathieu Amalric | Michelle Thrush | Misty Upham
Jason says: “Early on in JIMMY P., a character apologizes for the way he tells, and it’s a bit of an odd moment, as he’s not the one whose manner of speech is likely to give a modern audience pause.
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Anna Chlumsky | Chris Addison | Gina McKee | James Gandolfini | Peter Capaldi | Steve Coogan | Tom Hollander
Jason says: “The film opens with the Prime Minister’s Director of Communications, Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi), flipping his lid because a government minister said that a situation in the Middle East escalating to war was ‘unforeseeable,’ a dangerously absolute phrase
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Dave McKean
Starring: Gina McKee | Rob Brydon | Stephanie Leonidas
Michael says: “The visually spectacular fantasy by the comic world’s rock gods Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman has been getting very mixed reviews. Critics are comparing it to Alice in Wonderland and LABYRINTH for its tale of a young girl
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