Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Christopher Fitzgerald | Jonathan Roumie | Kate Winslet | Leonardo DiCaprio | Marin Ireland | Neal Bledsoe
Peg says: “For a relatively young actor, Michael Shannon has, at 35, a long and respectable resume. But amid his many small roles in television and film, his most recent turn as John Givings, the emotionally troubled neighbor of the
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Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Anson Boon | Bex Taylor-Klaus | Kate Winslet | Lindsay Dunca | Mia Wasikowska | Rainn Wilson | Sam Neill | Susan Sarandon
By Michael Colford
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Alan Rickman | Elizabeth Spriggs | Emma Thompson | Gemma Jones | Greg Wise | Hugh Grant | Kate Winslet
By Michael Colford
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Clive Merrison | Diana Kent | Kate Winslet | Melanie Lynskey | Sarah Peirse
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Francis Lee
Starring: Alec Secareanu | Fiona Shaw | Gemma Jones | Kate Winslet | Saoirse Ronan
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Christoph Waltz | Eliot Berger | Elvis Polanski | Jodie Foster | John C. Reilly | Kate Winslet
Thom says: “I went to see this film at a theatre only 4 blocks from where I live. My brother is a huge Roman Polanski fan and I do admire his work greatly so off we went. Then a dear
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Rating: 1.75
Director: John Turturro
Starring: Bobby Cannavale | James Gandolfini | Kate Winslet | Mandy Moore | Steve Buscemi | Susan Sarandon
Diane says: “Zany beginning fades to a ragged story in John Turturro’s third outing as director. James Gandolfini opens with an all-out singing and dancing number on the street of his Brooklyn neighborhood, supported by garbagemen et al. His wife,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Todd Field
Starring: Jackie Earle Haley | Jennifer Connelly | Kate Winslet | Patrick Wilson
Chris says: “Alexander Payne’s sharp, wickedly funny adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel ELECTION remains one of the best-ever book-into-film conversions. A long-belated follow-up to his great directorial debut IN THE BEDROOM, Todd Field’s adaptation of another Perrotta novel doesn’t scale
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Dustin Hoffman | Freddie Highmore | Ian Hart | Johnny Depp | Julie Christie | Kate Winslet | Radha Mitchell
Michael says: “You can feel the Miramax hand on Marc Foster’s FINDING NEVERLAND, which is a shame, although doesn’t disrupt the film all that much. One suspects that it would have had a lot of the same sentimental elements because
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Michael Gondry
Starring: Elijah Wood | Jane Adams | Jim Carrey | Kate Winslet | Kirsten Dunst | Mark Ruffalo | Thomas Jay Ryan | Tom Wilkinson
Bruce says: “For starters, I’m a big Jim Carrey fan. Let me qualify that. I think that he is one of the most talented actors alive. He needs a strong director. His performances too often have traces of juvenilia, mugging
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