Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Susanne Bier
Kyle says: “First name SERENA, married name Pemberton. Serena Pemberton: Is there a more perfect name for a character from 1929 played by Jennifer Lawrence? The man who proposes to her within moments of seeing her for the first time,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Turk | Keith Nickoson
Jason says: “It’s not quite ideal that my strongest reaction to PARALLEL is to note its strong fundamentals – that the filmmakers keep a potentially-confusing picture clear is great, but this is a love story; shouldn’t that be what sticks
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ken Ochiai
Jason says: “Director Ken Ochiai was unusually candid in his Q&A after this film, and one of the things he mentioned was that Japanese movies like NINJA THE MONSTER are made with more than an eye toward the foreign market,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Justin Kurzel
Jason says: “Though I can’t recite it from memory or anything, ‘Macbeth’ is probably the bit of Shakespeare that has lodged itself in my head the most firmly ever since high school, and that’s kind of an issue when watching
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jack Bryan
Kyle says: “’What I do isn’t about the people that die; it’s about the people that are left alive. They get the short end of the stick, as far as I’m concerned’. This is the moral of a tale told
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Isabel Coixet
Chris says: “New York literary critic Wendy (Patricia Clarkson) breaks up with her longtime husband in the back of a cab after he confesses to cheating on her. Storming out of the car and into her apartment, she accidentally leaves
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richard Lagravenese
Bruce says: “Jason Robert Brown is on a roll. His ‘Bridges of Madison County’ debuted at Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2013 before going to Broadway in the spring of 2014. Honeymoon in Vegas debuted at the Paper Mill Playhouse in
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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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