Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Xu Zheng
Jason says: “Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour made seven ROAD TO… movies between 1940 and 1962, though this series was not sequels so much as a chance to make selling the audience similar plots on a regular basis
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Andrew Niccol
Jason says: “Writer/director Andrew Niccol has never been a guy who had a problem with letting the audience know exactly what he is getting at with his movies, and that’s certainly the case when he sets his movies in the
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Paul Goodwin
Jason says: “2000 AD is not the only comic that could believably have its history scored with punk rock, but most of the rest burned out fast, or never made any sort of popular impact. 2000 AD has been a
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Lauren Shaw
Jason says: “It’s a weird thing to admit, but having seen a documentary or two about the Khmer Rouge a couple months back, and not regularly hearing much about Cambodia as it is now compared to those horror stories, it’s
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Christian Gregori | Héloïse Godet | Jessica Erickson | Kamel Abdeli | Richard Chevallier | Zoé Bruneau
Jason says: “My second impulse where Jean-Luc Godard’s GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE is concerned is to write nothing at all about it. That’s in large part because my first is to cry that the emperor has no clothes, but I think
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Homi Adajania
Starring: Arjun Kapoor | Deepika Padukone | Dimple Kapadia | Naseeruddin Shah | Pankaj Kapur
Jason says: “After a year or so of going to the Indian movies at the local multiplex, one gets a certain idea of what to expect, generally a musical masala picture that’s odd by conventional Hollywood standards. Sometimes, though, you
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ari Folman
Starring: Danny Huston | Harvey Keitel | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Michael Stahl-David | Robin Wright | Sami Gayle
TC says: “Loosely adapted from the Stanislaw Lem novel (who would probably say ‘VERY loosely’), this film is almost impossible to review, because as a film writer and fan, the thought of the stuff going on in this film is
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Flip van der Kuil | Steffen Haars
Starring: Birgit Schuurman | Daniel Arends | Henry van Loon | Raymond Thiry | Sylvia Hoeks | Tim Haars
Jason says: “I wasn’t really looking forward to this one, having kind of hated the first New Kids movie enough to skip the second, but it was the only English-friendly thing playing and I wanted to see what came after,
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Amma Assante
Starring: Emily Watson | Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Matthew Goode | Sam Reid | Sarah Gadon | Tom Wilkinson
Jason says: “I don’t watch a lot of costume dramas or read the sort of classic romances that are this film’s close relations, so I’m not sure how often they are focused on matters of ritual and plotting and how
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Jeffrey Friedman | Rob Epstein
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Bobby Cannavale | Chris Noth | Hank Azaria | James Franco | Peter Sarsgaard | Sharon Stone | Wes Bentley
Chris says: “Linda Lovelace, star of the seminal mainstream porno DEEP THROAT, had a life story seemingly tailor-made for a biopic: plucked from obscurity, she became an instant, infamous celebrity, but paid dearly for it. LOVELACE revels in that dichotomy,
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