Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Rebecca Hall
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Andre Holland | Antoinette Crowe-Legacy | Bill Camp | Gbenga Akinnagbe | Ruth Negga | Tessa Thompson
Michael says: “This assured directorial debut from actor Rebecca Hall reveals a practice that many people will be unaware. Set in 1920’s Harlem, a chance reunion of two high school friends poses moral and ethical challenges to a black woman
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Eugene Ashe
Starring: Aja Naomi King | Alano Miller | Eva Longoria | Jemima Kirke | Nnamdi Asomugha | Regé-Jean Page | Tessa Thompson | Tone Bell
Michael says: “Sylvie works at her father’s record store to kill time waiting for her fiancee to come back home from the Korean War in 1957, but all she really wants to do is break into TV. That is until she
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nia DaCosta
Starring: James Badge Dale | Lance Reddick | Lily James | Luke Kirby | Tessa Thompson
Ivy says: “This film is a revelation! A woman-directed, modern, feminist western set in North Dakota starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James. I really don’t want to tell you more. It is one of my favorite films of the year and
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Boots Riley
Starring: Armie Hammer | Danny Glover | Forest Whitaker | Jermaine Fowler | Kate Berlant | Lakeith Stanfield | Lily James | Michael X. Sommers | Omari Hardwick | Tessa Thompson
Thom says: “A good friend gave me a choice of 3 current features & I mistakenly chose this one. I think part of the problem was an age difference. Amongst the 70s group I’m afraid I’ve lost a lot of
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Justin Simien
Starring: Brittany Curran | Dennis Haysbert | Kyle Gallner | Tessa Thompson | Tyler James Williams
Kyle says: “’Dear White People: The amount of black friends required not to seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone doesn’t count!’ Thus Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) begins her Winchester University campus radio show
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