Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Gregory Hatanaka
Starring: Dominique Swain | James Duval | Pollyanna McIntosh | Richard Riehle | Sal Landi | Walter Koenig
Jason says: “I spent a lot of my time watching BLUE DREAM feeling like I didn’t know what was going on. That wasn’t strictly the case – I could certainly recognize what was happening in a given scene and could
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Ivana Mladenovic
Starring: Alexandru Mititelu | Dragomir Christian George | Israila Jamir | Papan Chilibar
Bruce says: “Director Ivana Mladenovic admits that the genesis of her film began as a narrative feature film crew got permission to film in a prison using inmates as actors. Although she did not go into detail, that venture fell
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Kern Saxton
Starring: Andy Mackenzie | Cortney Palm | Danny Trejo | James Duval | Mark Hamill | Noah Hathaway | Tony Todd
Jason says: “Ugh, what an unpleasant movie. Sure, it’s the sort of grittily flamboyant crime flick that has an audience, but it’s a hollow, mean-spirited thing that isn’t nearly clever or well executed enough to be worth it. “After serving
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Michael Sladek
Bruce says: “A film such a BAM150 has no right to be in any film festival. It is a vanity project commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) directors Karen Brooks Hopkins and Joseph Melillo, more propaganda than a work
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Vladan Nikolic
Starring: Al Nazemian | Ana Asensio | Didier Flamand | Jason Robards III | Peter Scanavino
Jason says: “ZENITH is a bad no-budget science fiction movie, but at least it’s considerate enough to place itself toward the end of the alphabet. After all, while it did somehow manage to get itself booked in a few theaters
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Amber Heard | Danielle Panabaker | Laura-Leigh | Marnie Gummer
Thom says: “Over the years director Carpenter has certainly established some credibility in the B-movie category (HALLOWEEN (1978), ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE FOG (1980), THE THING (1982), STARMAN) although in the past few years his reputation has slightly faltered.
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Usama Alshaibi
Starring: Dejan Mircea | Manal Kara | Molly Plunk
Jason says: “Congratulations, Usama Alshaibi. You’ve managed to make spiritualism, Islamic mythology, and kinky sex boring in one brief eighty-minute feature. That’s quite an impressive accomplishment, considering that most of the movie doesn’t seem interested in accomplishing much of anything.
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Caleb Emerson
Starring: Aramis Sartorio | Brett Hundley | David Reynolds | Gia Paloma | Thea Martin
Jason says: “It’s not uncommon for critics to rate films they see at a festival a little higher than those they see elsewhere, in part because the discussions with the filmmakers afterward help forge a personal connection and often cast
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Kristin Canty
Thom says: “We can’t all be interested in everything, right? This documentary is the story of food clubs and farm co-operatives all over the United States that have been raided by local, state, and the federal government that reads more
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Richard Weiss
Starring: Dennis Duggan | Genevieve Antaky | Julia Sanford | Pamela Wycliffe | Stan Weston
Jason says: “As remarkably inept as THE BOOK is, I was still willing to give it a recommendation of the ‘guilty pleasure’ variety, almost entirely for its commitment to its retro-bizarre style. A man can only take so much, though,
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