Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Anthony Geffen | Sias Wilson
Jason says: “Going by what I find on IMDB (which is not always the safest thing to do), PENGUINS 3D appears to be what you get when you cut a British nature documentary, THE PENGUIN KING 3D, down to half
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Richard Griffin
Starring: Elyssa Baldassari | Michael Reed | Monica Saviolakis | Nathaniel Sylvia | Patrick Keeffe | Sarah Nicklin
Jason says: “This is not the first time independent director Richard Griffin has tried to give his audience the creeps without having his tongue planted in his cheek – given how prolific the Rhode Island filmmaker has been since he
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Starring: Connor Christie | Dawn Olivieri | J LaRose | Jordan Woods-Robinson | Kip Pardue | Mitch Ryan | Randy Molnar
Jason says: “Put its Mormon trappings aside, and MISSIONARY is the sort of basic ‘woman with a stalker’ movie that hits all its marks well enough that the audience doesn’t necessarily care that it’s working from a standard list. It
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Idris Elba | Naomie Harris | Riaad Moosa | Simo Mogwaza | Tony Kgoroge | Zolani Mkiva
Jason says: “MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is a tidily-arranged biography; it organizes what people are interested in where Nelson Mandela is concerned and presents it in a manner that is respectful and stirring without feeling like it is getting
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Satoshi Miki
Jason says: “There’s clear intent to make a clever movie in IT’S ME, IT’S ME from the opening shots of identical buildings, insistent posters about a rat infestation, and other bits that tie into the high concept of a young
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Randy Moore
Starring: Annet Mahendru | Danielle Safady | Elena Schuber | Jack Dalton | Katelynn Rodriguez | Roy Abramsohn
Jason says: “Someday, perhaps soon, folks may accuse Randy Moore of selling out. After all, while most of the crowd for the opening-night showing of ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW seemed to be there to cheer on poking a finger in the
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jason Lapeyre | Robert Wilson
Starring: Aidan Gouvela | Andy Reid | Gage Munroe | Kolton Stewart | Mackenzie Munro | Michael Friend | Siam Yu | Spencer Howes
Jason says: “I DECLARE WAR is a terrific little coming-of-age movie that’s made all the better because there are no adults and no real crises in it; it’s just kids evolving into something that’s not quite the same as what
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jeff Howlett | Mark Christopher Covino
Jason says: “You can say what you want about Detroit – that its main industry needs propping up, that its population is collapsing, that arson seems to be the most popular local activity – but you have to admit, hope
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Jason says: “Five years ago, Alex Gibney set out to make THE ROAD BACK, a documentary that followed Lance Armstrong’s comeback, hopefully to culminate in an eighth Tour de France victory. That didn’t happen, but a whole lot of other
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ágnes Hranitzky | Béla Tarr
Starring: Erika Bók | János Derzsi | Mihály Kormos | Ricsi
Thom says: “In 1889 German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the flagellation of a horse while traveling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms o’er the horse’s neck to safeguard it then collapsed to the soil. In less than one month,
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