Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Craig Teper
Diane says: “I caught this at the Boston Jewish Film Festival, where another patron complained justifiably that the movie wasn’t Jewish enough. We see Sassoon in a synagogue with his kippe at the start of the film, then a very
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Eddie Marsan | Jude Law | Mark Strong | Rachel McAdams | Robert Downey Jr | Robert Maillet
Thom says: “Hmmm… Admittedly, I have no respect at all for fake macho director Ritchie, and while this film is fitfully entertaining, finally let’s attack it for esthetic reasons. This was adapted from a comic book of all mediums but
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Tamra Davis
Jason says: “In the last review I wrote (for the delightful MARWENCOL), I said that documentaries about art and artists were frequently disappointing, in part because filmmakers have a hard time translating the brilliance they see into something a non-artist
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Christine Molloy | Joe Lawlor
Starring: Annie Townsend | Danny Groenland | Dennis Jobling | Sandie Malie | Sonia Saville
Jason says: “I’d like to think I’m generous when reviewing and rating movies: If I enjoy a movie while watching it, but it loses something on later examination, I make sure to emphasize that this doesn’t undo the initial good
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Starring: Andrew Lincoln | François Damiens | Héléna Noguerra | Julie Ferrier | Romain Duris | Vanessa Paradis
Jason says: “Making a good romantic comedy seems easy enough, in theory: Come up with some witty banter, figure out what makes the people delivering it interesting and likable, add a reason that they aren’t kissing by the end of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Jennifer Connelly | Jeremy Northam | Martha West | Paul Bettany | Toby Jones | Zak Davies
Thom says: “How this film opened TIFF is beyond all understanding for it failed on so many levels. There really wasn’t even much pleasure in seeing Bettany play against his real life wife Connelly as Charles Darwin & his wife
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Rania Ajami
Starring: Bill Dawes | Camille O'Sullivan | Daniel Irizarry | Judith Hawking | Pepper Binkley | Stella Maeve
Jason says: “It’s a hoary old chestnut, but one that has stuck in the English language every since Shakespeare first used it in Hamlet because here’s a truth contained in it: ‘Method to madness.’ It’s not enough to just say
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich | Carmen Maura | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Maribel Verdú | Vincent Gallo
Diane says: “A hodgepodge from Coppola deals with creative genius and fraternal rivalry. The unevenness shows in the personnel: one character is wonderfully warm and realistic; a few are absurd; another is full of bombast, signifying nothing. Lead Vince Gallo
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Michael Cuesta
Starring: Beatrice Miller | Brian Cox | Dallas Roberts | Josh Lucas | Lena Heady | Pablo Schreiber | Ulrich Thomsen
Bruce says: “Director Michael Cuesta and screenwriter Dave Callaham go out of their way to tip their hats to Edgar Allan Poe. Cuesta has succeeded in creating a gothic atmosphere by filming TELL TALE in the old section of Providence,
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mark Lebenon
Starring: Malcolm Ferreira | Nicole Smart | Roland Gaspar | Shaun Myburg
Jason says: “SLAM-BANG is, as the director pointed out several times during the introduction and Q&A, a notable movie for being a bit of pulp action made independently in South Africa. It is apparently very difficult to get a film
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