Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Stephen Soderbergh
Starring: Alex Pettyfer | Channing Tatum | Joe Manganiello | Matthew McConaughey | Olivia Munn | Reid Carolin
Bruce says: “If you have ever seen Channing Tatum on a talk show, you know that he is very open about his former career as a male stripper. Steven Soderbergh has his own mission of bringing more stories to the
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Matthew Mishory
Starring: Clare Grant | Dalilah Rain | Dan Glenn | Edward Singletary | Erin Daniels | James Preston | Rafael Morais
Thom says: “While the audience at the LGBT Film Festival went wild after the showing of this colorful representation of the early adult life of the legendary James Dean I felt like sneaking away in embarrassment. I’ve seen so many
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Travis Mathews
Starring: Ben Jasper | Brontez Purnell | Jesse Metzger | Jorge Rodolfo | Keith McDonald | Peter DeGroot | Wayne Bumb
Thom says: “This is your below average gay hard-core mumble core movie. Jess has lived in San Francisco for nearly a decade and his finances have got the better of him and he’s moving back to Ohio. It’s going to
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Edward Burns
Starring: Brian d'Arcy James | Connie Britton | Dara Coleman | Edward Burns | Heather Burns | Kerry Bishé
Bruce says: “Rather like John Sayles who has consistently alternated between acting & writing to acquire enough money to independently produce his own films, Burns has become a reliable B-list actor to finance his directorial projects. But while Sayles has
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Josh Trank
Starring: Alex Russell | Anna Wood | Ashley Hinshaw | Dane DeHaan | Luke Tyler | Michael B. Jordan | Michael Kelly
Thom says: “This fast-paced earner certainly moved right along and I loved using Seattle as the background city (I grew up there) but the characters were all so hackneyed and the resolution so incomplete, plus there was that hand-held camera
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mikael Marcimain
Starring: David Dencik | Kristoffer Joner | Outi Mäenpää | Pernilla August | Ruth Vega Hernandez | Sven Nordin
Thom says: “CALL GIRL is set in the late 1970s – The film takes us on an excursion from the lowest of Swedish society (young teenage girls who are emotionally fucked-up, to the point where they refuse to respond to
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Jean-Marc Mineo
Starring: Aphiradi Phawaphutanon | Caroline Ducey | Jon Foo | Michael Cohen | Pream Busala-Khamvong
Jason says: “Some martial-arts action flicks are all-around great movies, and many are capable, if not exceptional. A distressing number, though, are one trick ponies, with good action scenes being held together by connective tissue that is given so much
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Sara Johnsen
Starring: David Dencik | Kristoffer Joner | Mads Sjøgård Pettersen | Maria Bonnevie | Maria Heiskanen
Thom says: “This desultory film was much more appreciated by filmgoer Beth but I just didn’t get it. We learn first off that two brothers lie dead in a remote forest with a woman barely alive lying beside them. William
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Justin Reitman
Starring: Charlize Theron | Collette Wolfe | Elizabeth Reaser | Patrick Wilson | Patton Oswalt
Diane says: “Major disappointment! Maybe I was too excited by my sister’s prediction that YA would be the female CHUCK AND BUCK. Maybe I’ve been too captivated by the cringeworthy, edgy dialogue of the Duplass brothers. YA’s story is flat
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Daming Chen
Starring: Andy Lau | Chengru Li | Daming Chen | Gong Li | Jing Hu | Kelly Hu | Osric Chau
Jason says: “It’s bad enough that WHAT WOMEN WANT is a romantic comedy that has deficiencies were both halves of the term are concerned, relying on its stars’ charm to get the audience to ignore writing that is sloppy and
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