Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fran Kranz
Starring: Ann Dowd | Jason Isaacs | Martha Plimpton | Reed Birney
Michael says: “Right from the very beginning there’s something vaguely stilted and manipulative about MASS. Maybe it’s the way they try to build up so much tension using extraneous characters just to make the film more than just four people
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Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Anna Thomson | Jared Harris | Lili Taylor | Lothaire Blutheau | Martha Plimpton | Peter Friedman | Tahnee Welch
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Starring: Aaron Poole | Jill Hennessy | Martha Plimpton | Peter Stormare | Stephen Eric McIntyre
Michael says: “Peter Stormare gives a remarkably restrained performance as a small-town cop trying desperately not to give in to a violent past while investigating a local murder that touches close to home. Echoes of FARGO abound, in this economically
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Christopher Munch
Starring: Amy Madigan | Jacqueline Bisset | Martha Plimpton | Nick Stahl
Scot says: “I was blown away by this quiet little ‘family piece.’ “Middle-aged Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) is an out-of-work writer/reporter who once consoled lonely men in 1950s Florida both with her overnight radio show and her company. When she learns
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