Offseason (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Mickey Keating
Starring: April Linscott | Jeremy Gardner | Jocelin Donahue | Joe Swanberg | Melora Walters | Richard Brake
The Sacrament (2014)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ti West
Starring: AJ Bowen | Amy Seimetz | Gene Jones | Joe Swanberg | Kentucker Audley
Jason says: “The text at the beginning of THE SACRAMENT describes the journalistic style of its protagonists as ‘immersionism’, and I suspect that this is writer/director Ti West’s goal as well – getting the audience inside a situation that it
Read the review...Proxy (2014)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Zack Parker
Starring: Alexa Havins | Alexia Rasmussen | Joe Swanberg | Kristina Klebe
Jason says: “Give PROXY filmmaker Zack Parker this: Unlike many movies that wind up labeled ‘horror’, his delivers something that its audience will want to put out of their heads afterward because it doesn’t bear thinking about. Unfortunately, he keeps
Read the review...White Reindeer (2013)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zach Clark
Starring: Anna Margaret Hollyman | Joe Swanberg | Laura Lemar-Goldsborough | Lydia Hyslop | Nathan Williams
Jason says: “It would be kind of amusing if, in the future, WHITE REINDEER winds up dropped into the Christmas rotation of independent-minded theaters, television stations, and online-streaming-lists as an apparent poison pill. Not that there aren’t already plenty of
Read the review...A Horrible Way to Die (2011)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: AJ Bowen | Amy Seimetz | Brandon Carroll | Joe Swanberg | Lane Hughes
Jason says: “I don’t want genre filmmaking to become a paint-by-numbers affair, where we as an audience rejoice at basic competence and filmmakers strive to replicate a winning formula. Crime, horror, and the like can be innovative and done with
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