Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.75
Director: M.H. Murray
Starring: Anthony Diaz | Deragh Campbell | Mark Clennon | Nat Patricia Manuel | Victoria Long
Diane says: “There’s a game going on here at Chlotrudis North: ‘What else didn’t you like about I DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE?’ “Some sample answers: 1. It was like a public service announcement about HIV 2. Scenes that went
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Jing Wong
Starring: Andy Lau | Jacky Cheung Hok-yau | Kimmy Tong Fei | Nick Cheung Ka-fai | Shawn Yue Man-lok
Jason says: “When I saw the first FROM VEGAS TO MACAU at a festival a couple years ago, I figured that I was just a victim of bad expectations, not prepared for something so silly, especially thinking of Chow Yun-fat
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Stephen S. Campanelli
Jason says: “The title of MOMENTUM is appropriate in a way the people behind the film probably don’t intend; momentum, after all, is a measure of the potential energy of an object that is moving but in a passive, unguided
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Sanjay Gupta
Jason says: “I don’t know a lot about Bollywood, but there are a few names I recognize. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, top star often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful women and returning from a long maternity break; Irrfan
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Michael J. Epstein | Sophia Cacciola
Jason says: “By the time TEN is over, it has maybe managed to beat its story into making some kind of sense, or at least into the kind of nonsense that the audience can sort of work with. That’s probably
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Ralph Ziman
Starring: Callan McAuliffe | Carl Beukus | Deon Lutz | India Eisley | Samuel L. Jackson
Jason says: “This live-action adaptation of Yasuomi Umetsu’s animated series has apparently been in development for fifteen years, and the end result is one to make you wonder why certain projects persist and eventually get made in some form while
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Will Slocombe
Starring: Amy Ferguson | Ashton Holmes | Cheryl Hines | Peter Bogdanovich | Ross Partridge | Sonya Walger
Jason says: “Folks from other continents much watch movies taking place on Thanksgiving and wonder why Americans have given themselves and extra week end of annoying travel to share a relatively bland meal and unresolved issues with family – even
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Rating: 1.75
Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Adriana Asti | Alexis Loret | André Dussollier | Carole Bouquet | Mauro Conti | Mélanie Thierry
Thom says: “While I’m certainly familiar with many of André Téchiné’s films including THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, SCENE OF THE CRIME, RENDEZ-VOUS, BAROCCO, STRAYED, THE WITNESSES the only one I’ll truly remember is WILD REEDS (1994). He’s always a
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Jessica Biel | Jodelle Ferland | Samantha Ferris | Stephen McHattie | William B. Davis
Jason says: “THE TALL MAN tries to do something worthy and interesting, at least at points, and those intentions certainly seem praiseworthy, but it just doesn’t work. the whole thing simply isn’t very well-constructed, to the extent that whether one
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Starring: Brit Marling | Christopher Denham | Davenia McFadden | Kandice Stroh | Nicole Vicius | Richard Wharton
Thom says: “I feel like an old crab not liking this more but it is becoming abundantly clear that I takes a lot of convincing for me to get into the conscience of the cult. Here, a couple ingratiate themselves
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