Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1 cat
Director: Delmar Washington
Starring: Bill Engvall | Diamond White | Hart Denton | Loren Gray | Rutina Wesley | Shane West | Skylan Brooks
Michael says: “I don’t see a lot of films about UFO abductions, but NO RUNNING was certainly no THE VAST OF NIGHT. Both films borrow from earlier genres… VAST the radio syndicated program, and NO RUNNING B-movie science fiction, but
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Rob Gordon Bralver
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1 cat
Director: Harmony Korine
Starring: Dave Cloud | Harmony Korine | Page Spain | Paul Booker
Thom says: “If this wasn’t the worst film entered at TIFF 2009 I certainly wouldn’t want to see what was. This seriously is one of the worst disappointments of my entire life. Korine’s previous film MISTER LONELY was my #1
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Beyoncé | Donald Glover | Seth Rogen
Thom says: “To be perfectly honest, I knew there was no way I was going to like this film. I had already suffered through the 1994 animation smash hit and hearing about its enormous success as a Broadway legend under
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: David Burris
Starring: Adelaide Clemens | Haley Joel Osment | Jeremy Irvine | Minka Kelly | Noah Wyle | Steve Earle
Kyle says: “‘Violence begets violence,’ says Leonard, the character portrayed by Noah Wylie, whom we know is sensitive because he listens to Aaron Copland’s ‘Appalachian Spring’ but nonetheless picks up his rifle whenever the dog barks or the sound of
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Fouad Mikati
Kyle says: “If you’ve been longing for a movie about rape and revenge, this one is for you. I extend my apologies for allowing my impatience with films like this to repeating IMDB ‘Plot Keywords’ instead of venting purple prose
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Christopher Denham
Starring: Aaron Staton | Cody Saintgnue | Michael Chacon | Nick Saso | Pablo Schreiber | Wrenn Schmidt
Kyle says: “I pulled up the IMDB listing before watching PRESERVATION. As soon as I read the Plot Keywords (singing in a car, hunting trip, hairy chest, self surgery, hiding in a sewer pipe — there are actually 126), and
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Nick Powell
Kyle says: “For the ‘New Rules’ segment of his hit HBO show REAL TIME, comedian Bill Maher has found considerable merriment in making fun of actors attempting to portray gravitas by affecting a British accent, and in pointing out how
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: David O. Russell
Diane says: “Saw this one despite poor reviews. With Jennifer Lawrence in the lead, it can’t be all bad, right? Wrong! One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Lack of momentum in the story, dull characters, flat tone. Scenes
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Ross Shuman | Tom Gianas
Jason says: “There’s a running gag in HELL AND BACK, arguably the funniest thing in the movie, where a demon voiced by John Farley subjects souls to various mildly annoying situations (stopped escalators, a Pizza Hut/Taco Bell that has no
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