Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Brooklyn Sudano | Roger Ross Williams
Brett says: “The documentary LOVE TO LOVE YOU, DONNA SUMMER accomplishes what most expect from a film about a famous pop icon in offering an audience the familiar trajectory into fame while exposing (part of) the behind-the-scenes person living in
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Anisia Uzeyman | Saul Williams
Starring: Bertrand Ninteretse | Cheryl Isheja | Dorcy Rugamba | Eliane Umuhire | Elvis Ngabo
Michael says: “I suppose if I have to be grateful to Lin Manuel Miranda for something, it’s the fact that he served as an Executive Producer for NEPTUNE FROST. Absent that I wonder if an Afrofuturisticm gender-fluid musical about a hacker
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Don McKellar | Kristen Stewart | Léa Seydoux | Lihi Kornowski | Nadia Litz | Scott Speedman | Viggo Mortensen
Brett says: “David Cronenberg returns to his ‘Cronenbergian ways’ in this film full of his body horror, shock and awe oddities that delight some, deter others, and appall … well, everyone. That’s not to say CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ivaylo Hristov
Starring: Ivan Savov | Michael Flemming | Miroslava Gogovska | Stoyan Bochev | Svetlana Yancheva
Michael says: “This Bulgarian film is a fascinating take on a story that has been very much in the film zeitgeist over the past few years. Hristov tells the story of the lives of a small town whose social and economic
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Panah Panahi
Starring: Amin Simiar | Hasan Majuni | Pantea Panahiha | Rayan Sarlak
Brett says: “HIT THE ROAD is an emotional gut punch disguised as a family road trip flick. In this feature film directorial debut from Panah Panahi, the audience slips into anomaly after anomaly underneath what is presented otherwise as a
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Samuel Kishi
Starring: Cici Lau | Johnson T. Lau | Kevin Medina | Leonardo Nájar Márquez | Martha Reyes Arias | Maximiliano Nájar Márquez
Michael says: “LOS LOBOS (THE WOLVES) is a semi-autobiographical story of Lucía, a young woman who emigrates to Albuquerque from Mexico with her two children, Max, age eight, and Leo, age five. After struggling to find a trashed studio to
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Maria Schrader
Starring: Annika Meier | Dan Stevens | Falilou Seck | Hans Löw | Maren Eggert | Sandra Hüller | Wolfgang Hübsch
Michael says: “***SLIGHT SPOILERS*** I’m behind on my reviews, and I’m still working on my soft pandemic commitment to review all the films i see. Several weeks back, we watched I’M YOUR MAN as part of our weekly discussion. This
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Joshua Leonard
Starring: Beth Grant | Erica Chidi Cohen | Janicza Bravo | Jess Weixler | Joshua Leonard | Michael Chieffo | Rom Bower
Michael says: “While not necessarily the most original idea, the execution of this film about a young couple, pregnant with their first child, and suddenly facing the terrifying reality of transitioning into parenthood, with their parent friends talking about their
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Starring: Alex Wolff | Cassandra Violet | Elijah Ungvary | Julia Bray | Nicolas Cage
Brett says: “They had a Cook with them who stood alone For boiling chicken with a marrow-bone, Sharp flavoring-powder and a spice of savor. He could distinguish London ale by flavor, And he could roast and seethe and broil and
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Bob Peterson | Pete Docter
Starring: Bob Peterson | Christopher Plummer | Delroy Lindo | Edward Asner | Jordan Nagai
Diane says: “Latest Pixar is bedeviled by a MacGuffin chase that makes it generic. It’s the first half hour of the film, the beautifully moving story of a couple passing from youth to old age and relinquished dreams, that makes this
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