Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Paolo Virzi
Starring: Ahmed Lucan | Christian McKay | Dana Ivey | Dick Gregory | Donald Sutherland | Helen Mirren | Janel Moloney
Thom says: “This shows me to be the old curmudgeon buzz-killer but I found this sappy love story to be pure hokum. Helen Mirren & Donald Sutherland are both highly trained and professional actors and she especially embraces her part to
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Arielle Cimino | Jeff Ryan
Starring: Charlie Pollock | Destry Allyn Spielberg | Jeff Ryan | Louis Cancelmi | Michael Underhill | Michelle Veintimilla
Diane says: “A local effort, this 60-minute feature combines comedy and horror. A group of Salem witch trial reenactors are hounded by a busload of Halloween partiers after the death of one of the tourists. Wacko highlights include a sleazy
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Bradley Cooper
Starring: Alec Baldwin | Andrew Dice Clay | Bradley Cooper | Dave Chappelle | Lady Gaga | Ron Rifkin | Sam Elliott
Thom says: “It isn’t just the fact that this is the 4th Hollywood incarnation of the same story (1937 with Janet Gaynor & Frederick March, 1954 with Judy Garland & James Mason, 1976 with Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson) that
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Robin Campillo
Starring: Adele Haenel | Aloïse Sauvage | Antoine Reinartz | Arnaud Valois | Coralie Russier | Félix Maritaud | Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Thom says: “I distinctly thought I’d like this film much more than I actually did. I’d be a total idiot to question its sincerity or even its verisimilitude but this film about the early days of the Act-Up agitprop movement in
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Sandy Robson
Starring: Aidan Kokotilo-Moen | Bronwen Smith | John Prowse | Sandy Robson
Jason says: “There are a lot of ways filmmakers can be too clever for their own good, but the most frustrating involve telling the audience, in one way or another, that the thing they’ve invested their time, money, and emotions
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Janet Grillo
Starring: AnnSophia Robb | Famke Jansen | Israel Broussard | Sophia Anne Caruso | Taylor Richardson
Jason says: “I don’t know much about raising kids or autism, let alone the combination of the two, but I probably know just enough to find JACK OF THE RED HEARTS a bit more alarming than it was perhaps meant
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Starring: Harvey Keitel | Jane Fonda | Michael Caine | Paul Dano | Rachel Weisz | Robert Seethaler
Kyle says: “My notes on Paolo Sorrentino’s atrocious YOUTH include pages of terrible lines, and scenes so grandiose, stuffed with so much visual information and shots held to the point of masturbatory self-indulgence (the sort of garbage that has people
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Amit Sharma
Starring: Arjun Kapoor | Deepti Naval | Manoj Bajbayee | Raj Babbar | Shruti K. Haasan | Sonakshi Sinha
Jason says: “There is a lot of bloat in TEVAR, a 157-minute Bollywood ‘thriller’ that could be remade as a direct-to-video action flick roughly half that length without particularly suffering for the revision. It’s all well and good to have
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Benjamin Carland
Jason says: “There’s a vibe to SHADOWS ON THE WALL that suggests filmmaker Benjamin Carland is trying to make a PRIMER not just something with big ideas but a small cast and budget, but a tactile feel. Something where all
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Lluís Quílez
Kyle says: “OUT OF THE DARK starts with a thunderstorm, as a man hurriedly packs a suitcase, interrupted on his way out first by a phone call instructing him to burn what look like medical files, then by persistent pounding
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