Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Alison Janney | Ellen Page | Josh Pais | Rosemarie DeWitt | Scott McNairy | Shannon Kipp
Michael says: “Lynn Shelton’s latest film, TOUCHY FEELY, didn’t get very good reviews on rottentomatoes.com, but I actually quite liked it. Rosemarie DeWitt plays Abby, a massage therapist one day finds she has developed an aversion so skin and to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: John Haptas | Kristine Samuelson
Jason says: “It’s not uncommon to watch a documentary and say that the scale is in-between the usual levels, neither comprehensive nor truly a broad introduction. TOKYO WAKA at times seems to be around those extremes, covering an extremely specific
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jonas D’Adesky
Starring: Jean Mary Pierre | Jules Vitaleme | Sima Mickelson
Bruce says: “About six months after the 2010 Haitian earthquake, Jonas D’Adesky’s girlfriend Ines decided she wanted to leave Belgium and travel to Haiti to volunteer her services. D’Adesky decided to accompany her and they stayed for six months. Three
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Miguel Gomes
Starring: Ana Moreira | Carloto Cotta | Enrique Espirito Santo | Laura Soveral | Teresa Madruga
Chris says: “From Portugal, this little, whimsical black-and-white film should carry an instant appeal for anyone bored by the more commercial axis of indie crossover cinema simply because it’s so quirky and weird—almost like a more feminine Jim Jarmusch mixed
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Jason says: “Toward the end of WE STEAL SECRETS, one of the interview subjects calls back to an early online handle of Julian Assange’s, ‘Mendax’, an abbreviation of ‘noble liar’. That is, however, not the first (possible) online alias of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Armen Evrensel
Starring: Amanda Tapping | Amy Matysio | Billy Boyd | George Takei | Kristin Kreuk | Robin Dunne
Jason says: “As of this writing, SPACE MILKSHAKE hasn’t actually been purchased by SyFy (or its Canadian equivalent Space) to run as a Saturday night original movie, but that’s what it is: A low-budget sci-fi movie just long enough that
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jonathan Gurfinkel
Starring: Eviatar Mor | Roy Nik | Sivan Levy
Bruce says: “This disturbing Israeli film S#X ACTS examines the effects of sexual bullying, a most disquieting albeit extremely important issue among teenagers. Gili (Sivan Levy) has switched schools midway through high school. Her mother is a single parent and
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Franco
Starring: James Franco | Jim Parrack | Raymond T. Williams | Trevor Neuhoff | Val Lauren | Vince Jolivette
Kyle says: “Oscar-nominated actor, director, painter, sculptor, poet, essayist, novelist, installation artist, famous college student and occasional professor, currently Gucci men’s perfume spokesperson, and soon-to-be Broadway play director James Franco is steadily amassing an intriguing body of work as cinema
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Giulla Brazzale | Luca Immesi
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Anna Bonasso | Cosimo Cinieri | Désirée Giorgetti | Ivan Franek | Nicola Arabi
Jason says: “RITUAL: A PSYCHOMAGIC STORY is explicitly inspired by the work and philosophy of Alejandro Jodorowsky, and many may find themselves disappointed that, after a very stylish opening, it is never in the same category of strangeness as Jodorowsky’s
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Gilles Bourdos
Starring: Christa Théret | Michel Bouquet | Michèle Gleizer | Romane Bohringer | Thomas Doret | Vincent Rottiers
Jason says: “I’m certain that I must, at some point, learned that famed Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and noted filmmaker Jean Renoir were father and son. Somehow the information failed to stick, so re-learning that bit of information was kind
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