Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.25
Director: Anthony Cordier
Starring: Jean-Philippe Écoffey | Johan Libéreau | Salomé Stévenin
Michael says: “The best thing I can say about DOUCHES FROIDES, my first film at the Toronto International Film Festival, is that it was all up from there. I was skeptical before I went, just looking at the image from
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Frank Miller | Quentin Tarantino | Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Bruce Willis | Elijah Wood | Jessica Alba | Mickey Rourke | Rosario Dawson
Hilary says: “If you’re looking for pure big-screen entertainment and don’t mind violence, however cartoonish and hyperbolic, check out SIN CITY. “This flick appeals to both my inner film noir nerd and affection for comic book/graphic novel adaptations. I do
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Matthew Parkhill
Starring: Gael García Bernal | James D'Arcy | Natalia Verbeke
Hilary says: “I’m terming this one Gael Garcia Bernal’s DIRTY DANCING: HAVANA NIGHTS. Please avoid the Hollywood Normative route your Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN costar has taken, GGB! “This flick has an enjoyably sick twist but no substance, so isn’t
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Sijie Dai
Starring: Kun Chen | Shuangbao Wang | Xun Zhou | Ye Liu
Scot says: ” The novel of Balzac has been making the rounds of book clubs lately, so to be honest, I was kind of prepared for this to be a let down. Often, when a book or a film is
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Aaron Eckhart | Delroy Lindo | Hilary Swank | Stanley Tucci
Laura says: “When 32 pacemaker wearers drop dead in Boston and misguided pigeons wreck havoc in London’s Tralfalgar Square Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart, POSSESSION) forms a theory that a problem with the earth’s electromagnetic field, formed by the
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: John Goodman | Mark Webber | Paul Giamatti | Selma Blair
Diane says: “For me, STORYTELLING was unfortunately upstaged by the trailer for HAPPINESS that preceded it. What a great movie! At each scene in the trailer, I thought, ‘That’s my favorite scene!’ And Philip Seymour Hoffman–fantastic! “It was wonderful and
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