Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats | 4.25 cats
Director: Cord Jefferson
Starring: Erika Alexander | Jeffrey Wright | John Ortiz | Leslie Uggams | Tracee Ellis Ross
Michael says: “Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison, a distinguished academic and writer of literary fiction who decries the popular trend of best-selling books about the black experience – usually involving single moms, gangs, and police shootings – in Cord
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Director: Anthony Mandler
Starring: A$AP Rocky | Jeffrey Wright | Jennifer Ehle | Jennifer Hudson | Jharrel Jerome | John David Washington | Kelvin Harrison Jr. | Nas | Paul Ben-Victor | Tim Blake Nelson
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Ansel Elgort | Jeffrey Wright | Nicole Kidman | Oakes Fegley
Thom says: “This film was adapted from the gigantic best-seller of the same name by Donna Tartt. When my brother Chuk and I had taken our previous cat Mandy in for a check-up I remember the lady veterinarian and Chuk
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Director: Joe Robert Cole
Starring: Ashton Sanders | Isaiah John | Jeffrey Wright | Kelly Jenrette
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: A.J. Edwards
Starring: Brett Butler | Caleb Landry Jones | Imogen Poots | Jeffrey Wright | Tye Sheridan
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Anton Yelchin | Jeffrey Wright | John Hurt | Mia Wasikowska | Tilda Swinton | Tom Hiddleston
Diane says: “Jim Jarmusch gives us another lovely, delicately realized, witty film. Thanks, Kyle, for your writing on the soundtrack. “I always wish that Tilda Swinton could be more chameleonic–that is, not be so obviously Tilda Swinton–but I have to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Starring: Jason Isaacs | Jeffrey Wright | Joe Anderson | Kelly Reilly | Sam Rockwell | Ted Levine | William H. Macy
Jason says: “There are two general ways a ‘bag of money’ movie can go: Navigating the intricate set-up that is revealed through a constant series of revelations and double-crosses that the anti-hero must navigate in order to keep the cash
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Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal | Jeffrey Wright | Michael Arden | Michelle Monaghan | Vera Farmiga
Diane says: “Oops! Why did I think this would be good?” Jason responds: “Well, because of Duncan Jones, I imagine. And because Jake Gyllenhaal is pretty good at this sort of action/adventure movie, and there’s a nice supporting cast
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Elizabeth Banks | Ellen Burstyn | James Cromwell | Jeffrey Wright | Josh Brolin | Richard Dreyfuss | Scott Glenn
Bruce says: “W. works as a conversation piece; were the film hilarious, educational or consciousness raising in any way, it would have redeeming qualities. There is no apparent reason to make such a film and no reason to see it.
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray | Chloe Sevigny | Frances Conroy | Jeffrey Wright | Jessica Lange | Julie Delpy | Sharon Stone | Tilda Swinton
Chris says: “In Jim Jarmusch’s Cannes-winning film, Bill Murray plays Don Johnston, a weathered, aging lothario and terminal bachelor forever explaining to bemused people that his last name is Johnston with a ‘T.’ Shortly after his latest flame, Sherry (Julie
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