Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Deepika Padukone | Krishna Singh Bisht | Ranveer Singh | Supriya Pathak
Jason says: “The last time I wrote a review of an Indian movie, I got comments saying not to compare it to something else and to just enjoy it for what it is. That’s actually good advice in general, although
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Kevin McManus | Matthew McManus
Starring: Alex Maizus | Brandon Waltz | Charles Kwame Odei | Dylan Hartigan | Jordan Puzzo | Kevin Corrigan
Jason says: “You don’t really need that much of a hook for a coming-of-age film – they’re more or less going to cover the same territory, albeit in different ways – but it doesn’t hurt to have one. That way,
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ryan Coogler
Starring: Ahna O'Reilly | Kevin Durand | Melonie Diaz | Michael B. Jordan | Octavia Spencer
Chris says: “So powerful and upsetting are the last twenty-odd minutes of Ryan Coogler’s debut feature that it’s not hard to see why it won the 2013 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. In recreating the moments that led up
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Aksel Hennie | Elvind Sandler | Julie R. Ølgaard | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Synnøve Macody Lund
Jason says: “What makes for a good thriller? There are many recipes, but it’s the results that matter; the audience should spend as much time as possible excited by what’s about to happen, in addition to what’s going on in
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Starring: Alex Maizus | Brandon Waltz | Charles Kwame Odei | Dylan Hartigan | Jordan Puzzo | Kevin Corrigan | Kevin McManus | Matthew McManus
Jason says: “You don’t really need that much of a hook for a coming-of-age film – they’re more or less going to cover the same territory, albeit in different ways – but it doesn’t hurt to have one. That way,
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Joseph Cedar
Starring: Albert Iluz | Alma Zack | Lior Ashkenazi | Shlomo Bar-Aba | Yuval Scharf
Chris says: “An Israeli father and son, both well-versed scholars in Talmudic studies, experience conflict when one is mistakenly awarded a prestigious annual prize that was actually meant for the other. The mistaken winner, however, is unaware of the mistake.
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Chris Hopewell | Crispian Mills
Starring: Alan Drake | Clare Higgins | Elliot Greene | Paul Freeman | Simon Pegg
Jason says: “For a while, I had the feeling that A FANTASTIC FEAR OF EVERYTHING had run short and been padded out with Simon Pegg doing a bunch of slapstick. Not a bad way to get a movie up to
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Óskar Thór Axelsson
Starring: Damon Younger | Johannes Hakur Johannesson | Maria Birta | Thor Kristjansson | Vignir Rafn Valþórsson
Jason says: “Is it weird to call BLACK’S GAME kind of fun? It is, after all, a movie about gangs and the cocaine trade that doesn’t exactly go the hip black comedy route or make its characters cool through their
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Neil Berkeley
Julie says: “I loved this one. Very engaging from beginning to end, very well put together doc. Some of the art was fantastic and some I was not so crazy about Wayne White is such a character! A true artist.
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Starring: Lars Brygmann | Michael Falch | Noel Koch Søfeldt | Otto Leonardo Steen Rieks | Paprika Steen | Shanti Roney
Bruce says: “At the 2007 premiere of her film WITH YOUR PERMISSION at the Toronto International Film Festival Paprika Steen announced that she and the film’s star, Lars Brygmann, would be playing George and Martha in Copenhagen in the spring
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