Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Curt May | Dennis Franz | John Aquino | John Lithgow | John McMartin | John Travolta | Nancy Allen | Peter Boyden
Michael says: “After enjoying Antonioni’s BLOW-UP, I thought it might be fun to check out BLOW OUT, Brian De Palma’s nod to that classic. In the 1966 film about a photographer who inadvertently captures a possible murder while king pictures of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Blair Brown | Bob Balaban | Charles Haid | Drew Barrymore | Miguel Godreau | Thaao Penghlis | William Hurt
Michael says: “From his crazed musicals (TOMMY; THE BOY FRIEND) to his hallucinogenic movies (GOTHIC; THE RAINBOW; LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM) I knew what I was getting into when I decided to watch ALTERED STATES. I’ve always been wary,
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ena Sendijarevic
Starring: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic | Ernad Prnjavorac | Jasna Djuricic | Lazar Dragojevic | Mirsad Tuka | Sanja Buric | Sara Luna Zoric
Michael says: “It sounded so interesting. A young woman leaves her mother’s home in the Netherlands where she was raised, to return to her native Bosnia and seek out a father that she barely remembered. Despite a solid performance by
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Isaac Rathé
Starring: Aaron Hrastovec | Leo Yako | Lucas Tommy Youkhana
Brett says: “A do-it-yourself thriller-comedy that throws back to Spielberg’s made-for-television DUEL, this film is a microscopic budget first feature that tosses out the tractor-trailer vs. automobile and inserts a motorboat and kayak instead. The absurdity of that concept is
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ludovic Boukherma | Zoran Boukherma
Starring: Alain Boitel | Anthony Bajon | Christine Gautier | Guillaume Mattera | Jean-Michel Ricart | Ludovic Torrent | Noémie Lvovsky
“TEDDY is a modern take on werewolf lore and is set for release next week in French theaters. The film’s title protagonist is a young man in his early 20s that is still very much lost in the world. He
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Paul Meins
Starring: Antonio de la Torre | Carmen Maura | Edward James Olmos | Francesc Orella | Jessica Marais | Paz Vega | Quim Gutiérrez
Michael says: “Family saga about a multi-generational Spanish family with a successful wine business who move their family business to Australia. The film is told in flashback, when a young man returns home to Spain and discovers that the groundskeeper
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Daryl Wein | Zoe Lister-Jones
Starring: Bobby Lee | Cailee Spaeny | Finn Wolfhard | Logan Marshall-Green | Nick Kroll | oe Lister-Jones | Tawny Newsome | Whitney Cummings
Chris says: “Shot entirely during the COVID-19 quarantine, this end-of-the-world indie-com has a good premise (although Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT got there first more than two decades ago), an impressive ensemble and a rather shoddy execution. Feeling much, much longer
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Brian Tyree Henry | Demián Bichir | Eiza González | Julian Dennison | Kyle Chandler | Lance Reddick | Millie Bobby Brown | Rebecca Hall | Shun Oguri
Michael says: “**SPOILERS if you care about who wins.** “What I learned form watching GODZILLA VS. KONG was that I am either a) further from the mainstream than I had already thought, or b) Mothra’s appearance in a monster movie
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Robin Wright
Starring: Brad Leland | Demián Bichir | Finlay Wojtak-Hissong | Kim Dickens | Robin Wright | Sarah Dawn Pledge | Warren Christie
Diane says: “If you didn’t get enough ghost sex in BURNING GHOST, here’s another chance. In LAND, Robin Wright is wracked by grief after the sudden loss of her husband and son. Edee can’t stand human company, so opts for
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Sam Levinson
Starring: John David Washington | Zendaya
Michael says: “Sam Levinson wrote and directed this overwrought two-hander during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and what might have been a interesting examination of how love and hate aren’t all that far apart in a relationship, turns out to be a
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