Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Luo Luo
Jason says: “I am tempted, half as a joke and half dead serious, to write this review as six paragraphs of ‘Shu Qi is extremely pretty’, maybe with a different adjective or adverb swapped in every once in a while
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Teddy Chan
Kyle says: “KUNG FU JUNGLE will appeal to fans of the great Hong Kong martial artist and movie star Donnie Yen (He also appropriately receives main title billing as ‘Action Director’.), but also to fans of director Teddy Chan, since
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andy Wachowski | Lana Wachowski
Thom says: “The most noted element of seeing this film is that now I can start my 2015 Film List as it was my first 2015 film. The Wachowski siblings (brother & now sister) are revered by quite a few
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Barry Levinson
Kyle says: “THE HUMBLING has impeccable credentials: It is based upon a 2009 novel by Philip Roth, it is co-scripted by Buck Henry, it is directed by Barry Levinson, and it stars Al Pacino as a once-upon-a-time famous actor who
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David Cross
Kyle says: “Two thirds of the running time of HITS has passed when Katelyn (Meredith Hagner) declares, ‘This is insanity!’ and leaves home with her father’s shotgun. HITS is a comedy about cultural chaos, its title having dozens of different
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anthony Burns
Kyle says: “HOME SWEET HELL is a mildly diverting dark comedy about marriage, murder and mayhem. Mona and Don Champagne (Katherine Heigl and Patrick Wilson) is seemingly the perfect modern married couple on paper. That turns out to be only
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lee Suk-hoon
Jason says: “The biggest problem with HIMALAYA (titled THE HIMALAYAS for its North American release) is that it comes right on the heels of EVEREST. The latter is not a particularly great movie but had the resources of a major
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Daniel Garcia | Rania Attieh
Jason says: “Movies like H., with its deliberately un-evocative title, unexplained strange events, and ostentatiously non-standard structure, can bring out my least favorite reaction to a movie – the urge to shout that the emperor has no clothes and the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: James Ponsoldt
Starring: Anna Chlumsky | Jason Segel | Jesse Eisenberg | Joan Cusack | Mamie Gummer
Jason says: “There are a lot of things that can be done with David Lipsky’s interview of David Foster Wallace, and I don’t think that a movie is at the top of the list. The magazine article it was originally
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Chao Deng | Yu Baimei
Jason says: “The very first scene of DEVIL AND ANGEL makes it clear what sort of broad comedy it’s going to be, and it’s a pretty dumb one. And it’s not a dumb comedy that is secretly kind of clever;
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