Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bradley Cooper
Starring: Andra Day | Bradley Cooper | Christine Ebersole | Ciarán Hinds | Laura Dern | Will Arnett
Michael says: “What this feel-good divorce movie lacks in bite, it more than makes up with with heart and good acting. Having gone through something somewhat similar to this, ending a long relationship between people who still care deeply for
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Adam Sandler | Billy Crudup | George Clooney | Laura Dern | Patrick Wilson
Diane says: “Noah Baumbach’s newest comedy will, I predict, be the audience fave at Telluride-by-the-Sea here in Portsmouth, NH. George Clooney plays Jay Kelly, a Hollywood star who is constantly surrounded by people, whose ego and drive compel him to
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Director: Florian Zeller
Starring: Anthony Hopkins | Hugh Jackman | Laura Dern | Vanessa Kirby | Zen McGrath
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Eliza Scanlen | Emma Watson | Florence Pugh | Laura Dern | Saiorse Ronan
Thom says: “LITTLE WOMEN has been somewhat of a Hollywood staple over the years with adaptations of the Louisa May Alcott classic coming out in 1918, 1933, 1949, 1994, & 2018, not to mention the innumerable television versions. I’ve seen
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Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Chris Coy | Emily Meade | Jack O'Connell | Jeff Perry | Laura Dern
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Justin Kelly
Starring: Diane Kruger | Jim Sturgess | Kristen Stewart | Laura Dern
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: James Le Gros | Jared Harris | Kristen Stewart | Laura Dern | LilyGladstone | Michelle Williams
Michael says: “I haven’t seen all of Kelly Reichardt’s films, but CERTAIN WOMEN is the fourth, and the most fully realized in a string of strong films including OLD JOY, WENDY & LUCY, and MEEKS’ CUTOFF. Based on a collection
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Starring: Andrew Garfield | Laura Dern | Michael Shannon | Noah Lomax | Tim Guinee
Chris says: “It’s no surprise that it took so long for someone to dramatize the housing mortgage crisis that brought on the 2008 recession. Although many were impacted, it’s not the most interesting subject matter for a film, unless perhaps
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring: Gaby Hoffman | Keene McRae | Laura Dern | Michiel Huisman | Reese Witherspoon | Thomas Sadoski
Thom says: “I’d noticed the Cheryl Strayed account of her 1,100 mile solo hike on the Pacific Coast Trail in 1995 atop or near the top of national Best Seller lists (It’s still #4 on the New York Times Paperback
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Ambyr Childers | Amy Adams | Joaquin Phoenix | Laura Dern | Lena Endre | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bruce says: “Much has been said about THE MASTER being a thinly disguised biopic of L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology. Hubbard may have been the inspiration for the film but THE MASTER is about cultism in general.
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