Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Rating: 0.5 cats
Director: James Nguyen
Starring: Aan Bagh | Colton Osborne | Janae Caster | Tippie Hedren | Whitney Moore
Diane says: “Perfect! My sweetheart and I had recently re-watched Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS and earlier in the day we were alarmingly strafed by gulls. “I thought we’d watch for ten minutes as a joke, but we were captivated. Afterwards, we
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Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Thom says: “For years I’d been reading about the huge best-selling trilogy that topped the sales charts for months on end. Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed were rooted in my consciousness but since I have
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Director: Jim Field Smith
Starring: Alicia Silverstone | Ashley Greene | Hugh Jackman | Jennifer Garner | Olivia Wilde | Rob Corddry | Ty Burrell
Matt says: “Everyone involved with the production of BUTTER no doubt wanted to make a funny and moving film about butter carving, politics, and obsessive competition. Unfortunately, all that hard work has churned out a product as dull, tasteless, and
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Director: Simon Hunter
Starring: Anna Walton | Benno Fürmann | Devon Aoki | John Malkovich | Ron Pearlman | Sean Pertwee | Thomas Jane
Jeff says: “Wretched. Tragic waste of Ron Perlman. Half a cat for occasionally interesting production design.”
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Director: Tibor Szemzö
Bruce says: “A GUEST OF LIFE is based on story of Alexander Csoma de Koros, a legendary 19th century Hungarian scholar who began a journey to Asia to discover the origins of the Hungarian people and unexpectedly ended up in
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Director: Jim Van Bebber
Starring: Amy Yates | Leslie Orr | Marc Pitman | Marcelo Games | Maureen Allisse
Michael says: “You all know why I went to see this movie. It was made by and starred many of Scot’s college friends about 12 years ago. It took them years to finish the film and get distribution, then after
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Director: Simon Sauvé
Bruce says: “Being somewhat to the left of center, I have always held admiration for protesters. In the early 1990’s I discovered that protesters were not always what they seemed. Many of the protesters were what I would call professionals
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Director: Keith Gordon
Starring: Mel Gibson | Robert Downey Jr | Robin Wright Penn
Bruce says: “Robert Downey, Jr. gives one of the greatest performances in one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. While I knew exactly what was going on, THE SINGING DETECTIVE still made little sense and held little interest. “Downey
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Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Bijou Phillips | Brad Renfro | Michael Pitt | Nick Stahl | Rachel Miner
Robin says: “BULLY depicts a microcosm, of our society of under-educated, under-motivated, under-employed and over-sexed teenagers with too much free time and, if Clark’s assessment is correct, under-supervised by their parents. Neither side comes across well in this tome of
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