Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Bobby Cannavale | Dustin Hoffman | Emjay Anthony | John Leguizamo | Jon Favreau | Oliver Platt | Scarlett Johansson | Sofia Vergara
Jason says: “Jon Favreau’s CHEF has a line in the credits about being based on actual events, and I kind of suspect that those events may involve ‘fans’ putting a lot of personal invective into their assessments of IRON MAN
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Sally Potter
Starring: Alessandro Nivola | Alice Englert | Annette Bening | Christina Hendricks | Elle Fanning | Jodhi May | Oliver Platt | Timothy Spall
Thom says: “Here’s another atrocious film from the vastly overpraised Sally Potter, & I never seem able to learn my lesson. I did give her first film ORLANDO my highest rating, perhaps in retrospect more for the presence of the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan | Kwon Sang-woo | Liao Fan | Linda Weissbecker | Oliver Platt | Vincent Sze | Yao Xingtong | Zhang Lan-xin
Jason says: “It’s not just one thing that has brought Jackie Chan to the point where his latest movie is something of a loud, sloppy mess, but everything working together: Age takes a toll on a performer this physical. Hollywood
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julian Farino
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Allison Janney | Catherine Keener | Hugh Laurie | Leighton Meester | Oliver Platt
Thom says: “Director Farino appears to have laid his groundwork on established, top-of-the-line, television series like ‘SEX & THE CITY,’ ‘BIG LOVE,’ ‘ROME,’ & ‘ENTOURAGE.’ Since a majority of the cast also cut their teeth on television series it only
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Amanda Peet | Ann Morgan Guilbert | Catherine Keener | Lois Smith | Oliver Platt | Rebecca Hall | Sarah Steele
Michael says: “Nicole Holofcener’s films, which explore relationships, most often between women; friends, sisters, mothers and daughters, have yet to let me down. From her spare, hilarious debut, WALKING AND TALKING, to her most recent, just-released PLEASE GIVE, Holofcener and
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Peter Hedges
Starring: Alice Drummond | Alison Pill | Derek Luke | Isiah Whitlock Jr. | John Gallagher Jr. | Katie Holmes | Lillias White | Oliver Platt | Patricia Clarkson | Sean Hayes
Diane says: “Well, the Village Voice might have called it ‘a gluttonous buffet of Sundance clichés, with an acid-reflux aftertaste of condescension and unexamined racism,’ but I’m giving it 5 cats! “PIECES OF APRIL was another delight–the story of a
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