Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Indianna Bell | Josiah Allen
Starring: Angela Krong | Elena Carapetis | Jordan Cowan | rendan Rock
Laks says: “I got a subscription to Shudder for Halloween season and only watched part of the trailer for YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME, an overlooked psychological horror flick that I was convinced I need to watch it straight away that
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Takayuki Hirao
Starring: Ai Kakuma | Akio Ôtsuka | Hiroya Shimizu | Konomi Kohara | Ryûichi Kijima
Diane says: “This animated feature is a primer on Hollywood filmmaking. Gene, assistant to B-movie producer Pompo, suddenly lands in the director’s chair, and we learn along with him. Gene’s movie, while benefiting from a collaborative crew and actors, hits
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Jerrod Carmichael
Starring: Christopher Abbott | Henry Winkler | J.B Smoove | Jerrod Carmichael | Lavell Crawford | Tiffany Haddish
Michael says: “ON THE COUNT OF THREE is billed as a dark comedy, and while it is that, I felt that it was more an inevitable tragedy sprinkled with humor. It’s a bold story about two men who make a
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Blerta Basholli
Starring: Adriana Matoshi | Aurita Agushi | Blerta Ismaili | Çun Lajçi | Kumrije Hoxha | Molikë Maxhuni | Yllka Gashi
Michael says “HIVE was another film, like FLEE, that I felt should have moved me more than it did. The story of a Kosovo town whose population, particularly the men was decimated during the war. Now countless families wait for
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Justine Bateman
Starring: Dennis Boutsikaris | Erica Ash | Justin Theroux | Luke Bracey | Olivia Munn | Todd Stashwick | Zachary Gordon
Michael says: “Yes, that Justine Bateman, Michael J. Fox’s TV older sister in ‘Family Ties.’ Part of the reason I wanted to see this film was to see where Ms. Bateman was coming from creatively, decades after her youthful fame.
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Amalia Ullman
Starring: Ale Ulman | Amalia Ulman | Andrea Escobar | Genoveva Garcia Castanon | Nacho Vigalondo | Saoirse Bertram
Chris says: “Was not a big fan of the whimsical camera wipes or the ‘quirky’ score, but I did love the Nacho Vigalondo cameo, not to mention the concept of ‘freezing one’s enemies.’ 3 cats” Michael says: “Looking at
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Bill Benz
Starring: Annie Clark | Carrie Brownstein | Chris Aquilino | Drew Connick | Ezra Buzzington | St. Vincent | Toko Yasuda
Michael says: “Annie Clark, the woman who most people know better as St. Vincent, is known for her boundary-pushing, genre-bending rock and roll. When she performs under her persona of St. Vincent, does she become a different person than Annie?
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Courtney Stephens | Pacho Velez
Bob says: “Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez traveled all over the US to document sections of the Berlin Wall that ended up here. They found them at corporations, restaurants, libraries, rich people’s homes, on the side of the highway, museums,
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Kate Tsang
Starring: chech | Jae Suh Park | Keith Powell | Leonardo Nam | Lucy DeVito | Miya Cech | Rhea Perlman
Chris says: “An unlikely friendship develops between 13-year-old Sammy (Miya Cech), who has been acting out in the year following her mom’s death and Margot (Rhea Perlman), an eccentric, older magician who becomes her mentor. Director Kate Tsang’s feature debut
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Starring: Christian Vadim | Darina Al Joundi | Dea Liane | Jan Dahdoh | Koen De Bouw | Monica Bellucci | Saad Lostan | Yahya Mahayni
Bob says: “A romantic melodrama merged with a satirical criticism of art and commerce. Sam Ali, a Syrian man on the run from the authorities, has to go into exile in Lebanon, leaving his girlfriend Abeer behind. This is apparently
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