Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Marta Barrio | Michael Towns | Rob Brydon | Steve Coogan
Chris says: “I’ll keep watching each one of these they make, knowing full well that the original remains the only essential entry. The attempt at pathos here renders it less satisfying than THE TRIP TO SPAIN, though Coogan’s bitchy summation
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Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: David Mitchell | Isla Fisher | Shirley Henderson | Steve Coogan
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jon S. Baird
Starring: John C. Reilly | Nina Ariadna | Rufus Jones | Shirley Henderson | Steve Coogan
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Griffin Newman | Neve Campbell | Pico Alexander | Steve Coogan | Taylor Russell
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Claire Keelan | Rob Brydon | Rosie Fellner | Steve Coogan
Chris says: “THE TRIP smartly capitalized on Steve Coogan’s and Rob Brydon’s superb chemistry with each other—one could imagine getting a kick out of watching them do nothing more than read the phone book, as long as they did it
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Declan Lowney
Starring: Colm Meaney | Karl Theobold | Monica Dolan | Nigel Lindsay | Steve Coogan | Tim Key
Jason says: “Based on the original British name for this movie (‘ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA’), I expected it to be doing more – for instance, for there to be some sort of subplot about Partridge and his kids. Fortunately, that’s
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: David Siegel | Scott McGehee
Starring: Alesander Skarsgârd | Joanna Vanderham | Julianne Moore | Onata Aprile | Steve Coogan
Thom says: “McGehee & Siegel have long fascinated me starting out with one of the strangest films ever made in SUTURE followed by two great films in THE DEEP END & BEE SEASON. While UNCERTAINTY was a decided letdown, because
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Barbara Jefford | Judi Dench | Mare Winningham | Sophie Kennedy Clarke | Steve Coogan
Thom says: ‘Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so surprised at how much I loved this film but until the starting credits rolled I had completely forgotten that the great Stephen Frears was the director. Over the years he’s been responsible
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Claire Keelan | Margo Stilley | Rebecca Johnson | Rob Brydon | Steve Coogan
Diane says: “More SIDEWAYS than MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, Michael Winterbottom’s THE TRIP has British actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon engaged in one-upmanship as they travel the North Country on a gastronomicaltour. The dialogue is not as profound or
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jesse Peretz
Starring: Elizabeth Banks | Emily Mortimer | Janet Montgomery | Kathryn Hahn | Matthew Mindler | Paul Rudd | Rashida Jones | Shirley Knight | Steve Coogan | T.J. Miller | Zooey Deschanel
Jason says: “OUR IDIOT BROTHER is just as broad a comedy as its name suggests but a good deal less mean-spirited. In other eras, it might have been a door-slamming farce, although in the present its screwball tendencies are held
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