Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Starring: Gerald Peary | Gordon Kindlmann | Myles Paige | Patrick Riester | Robin Schwarts | Wiley Wiggins
Jason says: “I think I’m done with Andrew Bujalski. I’ve seen three of his four films, and even the one I kind of liked didn’t really impress me. And while I can see some merit in the ones like COMPUTER
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hideo Nakata
Starring: Atsuko Maeda | Hiroki Narimiya | Masanobu Katsumara | Naomi Nishida | Satomi Tezuka | Sosei Tanaka
Jason says: “Hideo Nakata’s new one seems to start out with such promise – creepy visuals, a likable lead, the possibility of a whole apartment complex haunted with ghosts, and a knack for building tension out of small, real things
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Emil Christov
Starring: Lilia Abadjieva | Mihail Bilalov | Rousy Chanev | Ruscen Vidinliev
Thom says: “Batko becomes the master in his creation of an invisible web of informants by a group of revolutionaries that end up spying on each other. He controls his own secret fount of information. After the fall of communism,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Ciarán Hinds | Denis Moschitto | Eric Bana | Jim Broadbent | Julia Stiles | Rebecca Hall | Riz Ahmed
Jason says: “It says something about humanity, the world we live in, or perhaps just me personally, that I’m bored by the brand of paranoia that keeps CLOSED CIRCUIT running. Is that in spite of how visible abuse of power
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan | Kwon Sang-woo | Liao Fan | Linda Weissbecker | Oliver Platt | Vincent Sze | Yao Xingtong | Zhang Lan-xin
Jason says: “It’s not just one thing that has brought Jackie Chan to the point where his latest movie is something of a loud, sloppy mess, but everything working together: Age takes a toll on a performer this physical. Hollywood
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Starring: Cecilia Guitierrez | Erasmo Rodriguez | Manuel Ramos | Maria de Jesus Canales Ramirez | Monica Guzman
Jason says: “Yes, LOS CHIDOS goes there. Fill whatever twisted thing you want in for ‘there’, and that statement is likely to be true, although in actuality it’s not even in answer to a question – it’s doing something jaw-droppingly
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: E.L. Katz
Starring: Amanda Fuller | David Koechner | Ethan Embry | Pat Healy | Sara Paxton
Jason says: “Given the fairly impressive cast, decent behind-the-scenes talent, and loudly proclaimed praise for CHEAP THRILLS coming out of its festival appearances, I expected more from the movie. What I got was an acceptable gross-out movie with a nugget
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre
Jason says: “Jan Schmidt-Garre’s BREATH OF THE GODS is not a movie advocating yoga as much as it is an overview of the modern form’s history. In fact, it’s almost certainly going to be of strongest interest to those who
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lance Edmands
Starring: Adam Driver | Amy Morton | Brandon Wardwell | Emily Meade | John Slattery | Louisa Krause | Margo Martindale
Chris says: “It is impossible to see BLUEBIRD without drifting to thoughts of THE SWEET HEREAFTER. Both stories are set in small towns and feature an incident involving a school bus driver. BLUEBIRD takes place in the remote logging country
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pablo Berger
Starring: Angela Molina | Daniel Giménez Cach | Inma Cuesta | Macarena Garcia | Maribel Verdú | Sofia Oria
Jason says: “Two movies based on Snow White came out in the United States last year, and that seemed a little excessive. That wasn’t the extent of it, though – aside from the inevitable direct-to-video knock-offs, BLANCANIEVES came out in
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