Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Roh Deok
Starring: Ha Yeon-Soo | Kim Min-hee | Lee Min-ki
Kyle says: “According to the New York Asian Film Festival program booklet, VERY ORDINARY COUPLE, seen in its North American Premiere screening, out-grossed both A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD and GI JOE 2 at the Korean box office. Relief
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Shannon Plumb
Starring: Alexandra Hennrikson | Cody Cianfrance | Derek Cianfrance | Jason Quarle | Lora Lee Gayer | Shannon Plumb | Walker Cianfrance
Bruce says: “New York filmmaker Shannon Plumb draws on her own experiences of motherhood for the vignettes in TOWHEADS. In the film her name is Penelope and her real live husband, Derek Cianfrance (THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES and BLUE
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jodi Whillle | Maria Demopoulos
Chris says: “A popular health food restaurant on the Sunset Strip… an experiment in spiritual communal living at the dawn of the 1970s… a cult overseen by Father Yod, a charismatic, excessively-bearded ex-Marine who eventually proclaimed he was God Himself…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Starring: Jason Isaacs | Jeffrey Wright | Joe Anderson | Kelly Reilly | Sam Rockwell | Ted Levine | William H. Macy
Jason says: “There are two general ways a ‘bag of money’ movie can go: Navigating the intricate set-up that is revealed through a constant series of revelations and double-crosses that the anti-hero must navigate in order to keep the cash
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Drew Tobia
Starring: Dana Eskelson | Eleanore Pienta | Keisha Zollar | Molly Plunk
Jason says: “I know a fair amount of people who tend to judge movies in large part based on how much they agree with how the characters act. I suspect most of us do so a little more than we’d
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jang Cheol-soo
Starring: Kim Soo-hyun | Ko Chang-seok | Lee Hyun-woo | Park Hye-sook | Park Ki-woong
Jason says: “It happens all the time: An action-comedy starts out funny, but when building to a climax, the action so completely takes over that the thing that got the audience hooked at the beginning is almost completely lost. SECRETLY
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rico Maria Ilarde
Starring: Andi Eigenmann | Baron Geisler | Janice de Belen | JM de Guzman | Joel Torre | Ronnie Lazaro
Kyle says: “The North American Premiere of PRIDYIDER (FRIDGE) was presented under the New York Asian Film Festival rubric of ‘Manila Chronicles: The New Filipino Cinema.’ Yes, it’s about a refrigerator that kills people. And it’s so clear-headed and good-natured
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Deepti Kakkar | Fahad Mustafa
Bruce says: “POWERLESS examines two sides of the ‘power struggle’ in Kampur, a metropolitan area of approximately three million people. Kampur has had no increase in its power supply for twenty-two years although the population has tripled during that time.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julia Dyer
Starring: Cody Linley | John Hawkes | Jonathon McClendon | Lydia MacKay | Molly Parker
Bruce says: “THE PLAYROOM’s sin is one of omission. There is just not enough substance. One scene in particular is revisited time after time. A voiceover is also repetitious. No doubt Julia Dyer believed repetition would reinforce the moment. That
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kevin Schreck
Chris says: “Best known for his creative 1960s opening credit sequences (WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT?) and truly innovative work on WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?, Canadian-born, British-based animator Richard Williams would have preferred universal recognition for THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER, a
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