Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: James Gray
Starring: Anne Hathaway | Anthony Hopkins | Banks Repeta | Jaylin Webb | Jeremy Strong
Chris says: “The latest from writer/director James Gray is almost nakedly autobiographical. His 11-year-old alter ego, Paul (Banks Repeta) lives in Queens, 1980 (as Gray did), the younger son of a middle-class Jewish-American family whose grandfather (Anthony Hopkins) arrived at
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Alex Sharp | Eddie Redmayne | Frank Langella | Jeremy Strong | John Carroll Lynch | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Mark Rylance | Sacha Baron Cohen | Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Philip says: “Aaron Sorkin’s (The West Wing) THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 fictionalizes the ‘1969 trial of seven defendants charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the countercultural protests in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: David Dobkin
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton | Dax Shepard | Grace Zabriskie | Jeremy Strong | Robert Downey Jr | Robert Duvall | Vera Farmiga | Vincent D'Onofrio
Thom says: “This is a bulging, pompous, treacly mess of a film that has big bucks written all over it. Here Downey Jr. (he takes his A-List status very seriously these days) plays a Chicago defense lawyer of dubious moral
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Harold Perrineau | James Gandolfini | Jason Clarke | Jennifer Ehle | Jeremy Strong | Jessica Chastain | Kyle Chandler | Mark Duplass
Diane says: “ZERO DARK THIRTY–the wonderful Kathryn Bigelow’s version of The Hunt for Osama bin Laden–is grueling and thrillerish. (Be forewarned about the trailers you might get on this one–some of them are really sick, e.g., THE CALL) It is
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.6
Director: Jake Schreier
Starring: Frank Langella | James Marsden | Jeremy Strong | Liv Tyler | Peter Sarsgaard | Susan Sarandon
Chris says: “The premise sounds precariously iffy: in the ‘near future’, Frank (Frank Langella), a retired old coot suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s, is given a robot caretaker from his son. Although it looks rather cheap (resembling EVE
Read the review...