Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.75
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Alan Rickman | Cameron Diaz | Cloris Leachman | Colin Firth | Stanley Tucci | Tom Courtenay
Jason says: “It’s a horrible thing when a caper movie doesn’t come off. The great ones are casual and precise in a way that seems to come as much from alchemy as chemistry, and when that doesn’t happen, it seems
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: J.C. Chandor
Starring: Demi Moore | Jeremy Irons | Kevin Spacey | Mary McDonnell | Paul Bettany | Penn Badgley | Simon Baker | Stanley Tucci | Susan Blackwell | Zachary Quinto
Julie says: “Writer/Director J.C. Chandor outdid himself in his first feature debut, MARGIN CALL. The movie (billed as a drama / thriller) while fictional tells a story very close to the truth. It follows the key people at an investment
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg | Rachel Weisz | Rose McIver | Saoirse Ronan | Stanley Tucci | Susan Sarandon
Jason says: “Though I tend to think that attempting to fit a movie into a specific genre and then being frustrated when it fails to fit there nicely speaks more ill of the viewer’s inflexibility than the movie itself, I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Adrien Grenier | Anne Hathaway | Emily Blunt | Meryl Streep | Simon Baker | Stanley Tucci | Tracie Thoms
Bruce says: “THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA is an ugly duckling comedy set in the vacuous milieu of the New York and Paris fashion industries. What makes fashion a great comedic subject is the exaggerated importance and sense of purpose the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Chi McBride | Diego Luna | Stanley Tucci | Tom Hanks | Zoe Saldana
Bruce says: “Anyone wishing to argue Steven Spielberg’s shortcomings as a director need look no further than THE TERMINAL. This film is a textbook case. “Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a tourist from a fictional Eastern European country, who becomes
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Aaron Eckhart | Delroy Lindo | Hilary Swank | Stanley Tucci
Laura says: “When 32 pacemaker wearers drop dead in Boston and misguided pigeons wreck havoc in London’s Tralfalgar Square Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart, POSSESSION) forms a theory that a problem with the earth’s electromagnetic field, formed by the
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