Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1 cat
Director: Victor Teran | Youssef Delara
Kyle says: “ENTER THE DANGEROUS MIND, also known confusingly by its working title and alternate Netflix listing as SNAP, is an attempt at a psychological thriller based on a variation of the Faust story. Except this Mephistopheles avatar seems unclear
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Director: Tom McCarthy
Starring: Adam Sandler | Dan Stevens | Kim Cloutier | Lynn Cohen | Melonie Diaz | Sondra James | Steve Buscemi
Kyle says: “Lower East Side New York cobbler Max Simkin (Adam Sandler) struggles to make ends meet, supporting himself and his aged mother. He rediscovers a stitching machine that has been in his family for many generations and starts using
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Kyle says: “The IMDB trivia section informs us that BROKEN HORSES is the first Hollywood film produced, directed, and written by an Indian, and that director James Cameron called it ‘an artistic triumph’ and director Alfonso Cuaron was ‘overwhelmed’ by
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Director: Gillian Robespierre
Starring: David Cross | Gabe Liedman | Gaby Hoffmann | Jake Lacy | Jenny Slate | Polly Draper | Richard Kind
Kyle says: “OBVIOUS CHILD is the title of a song by the great Paul Simon, with its pointed lyric ‘Why deny the obvious child?’ Why indeed? Donna (Jenny Slate) is a rising standup comic whose specialty is talking dirty and
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Darren Stein
Starring: Andrea Bowen | Michael J. Willett | Molly Tarlov | Paul Iacono | Sasha Pieterse | Xosha Roquemore
Kyle says: “G.B.F. for fossils like me stands for Gay Best Friend. If nothing else, this programmer establishes clearly that independent cinema can be every bit as stupid and regressive as big budget corporate Hollywood endeavors. Unless you regard as
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Jonathan Sobol
Kyle says: “Kurt Russell plays a character named Crunch Calhoun, a failed daredevil con-man art thief who repeatedly mutters, ‘Oh boy!’ when he’s in a jam. The only worse Kurt Russell performance I can think of is his indelible Steve
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Jonathan Newman
Starring: Aneurin Barnard | Ioan Gruffudd | Keeley Hawes | Lena Headey | Michael Sheen | Sam Neill
Kyle says: “The most interesting mystery in this unfortunate waste of time and money is its title. It went straight to video as THE ADVENTURER: THE CURSE OF THE MIDAS BOX, but if you last until the end titles, you
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Director: John Huddles
Starring: Bonnie Wright | Daryl Sabara | Freddie Stroma | James D'Arcy | Rhys Wakefield | Sophia Lowe
Kyle says: “A class of philosophy students in a privileged high school in Djakarta on the final day of class is challenged by the teacher to consider issues confronting them on different doomsday scenarios, in which only ten of the
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Lee Hwan-Kyung
Starring: Jeong Man-Sik | Kal So-Won | Kim Ki-Cheon | Oh Dal-Su | Park Won-Sang | Ryoo Seung-Ryong
Kyle says: “MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7 is a despicable patriarchal fantasy presented as a comedic tearjerker about a wrongfully imprisoned intellectually impaired but adoring father Young-Goo (Ryoo Seung-Ryong) of a precious little girl Je-Seung (Kal So-Won), who is smuggled
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Director: Anja Daelemans | Nicholas Bonner
Starring: Gwang Hun Kim | Han Jong-Sim
Kyle says: “COMRADE KIM GOES FLYING received its New York Premiere and was hailed by ‘Film Comment’ Editor Gavin Smith as the first North Korean film ever presented at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The occasion was greeted with
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