Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paul Cotter
Starring: Benjamin Whitrow | Eileen Nicholas | Shane Taylor
Jason says: “BOMBER, when you get right down to it, is the sort of movie where one can see very clearly that if the characters just did what any normal, sane person would do, things would go pretty smoothly. That
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Stephen Soderbergh
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Demián Bichir | Julia Ormond | Oscar Isaac | Ramon Fernandez | Rodrigo Santoro
Jason says: “At various times, Steven Soderbergh’s ambitious Che Guevera project has been described as one very long picture and as two, and I’m not sure which is how it started and which is considered the definitive experience. To further
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Diane says: “Am I glad I saw this one! And gladder still to see Anvil’s decent sked of tour dates for the next couple of months (they’re playing in England now and will open for AC/DC in Foxborough next month).
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Maher Sabry
Starring: Ayman | Julian Gonzalez Esparza | Jwana | Mehammed Amadeus | Munir Bayyiri | Youssef El-Shareif
Bruce says: “ALL MY LIFE is billed as the first gay Egyptian film. It has been banned in Egypt which should not come as a big surprise since the film contains sex scenes that border on soft porn. Maher Sabry
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Starring: Dan Lauria | Eric McCormack | Jenni Baird | Jody Thompson | Robert Patrick
Jason says: “If you go to enough genre-oriented film festivals or keep an eye out for would-be cult films, you will probably feel like you see a new movie like ALIEN TRESPASS every month or two – a fifties sci-fi
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Cao Hamburger
Starring: Caio Blat | Daniela Piepszyk | Eduardo Moreira | Germano Haiut | Michel Joelsas | Simone Spoladore
Bruce says: “Three ideas for a story converge in THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION: the 1970 World Cup Games in which Pele led his country to their third world championship; the insularity of the Jewish community in Sao
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rodger Grossman
Starring: Ashton Holmes | Bijou Phillips | Noah Segan | Rick Gonzalez | Shane West | Tina Majorino
Jason says: “Music doesn’t interest me nearly as much as movies do, and I grew up on the East Coast besides, so it’s not exactly surprising that I’d never heard of short-lived (but apparently influential) Los Angeles punk band The
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bruce McDonald
Starring: Ellen Page | Julian Richings | Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Michael says: “This was surely the year of Ellen Page at the Toronto International Film Festival. After receiving well-deserved accolades for her fine comedic work in JUNO, she turns around a floors audiences in Bruce McDonald’s (‘Twitch City’; HIGHWAY 61)
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Danny Boyle | Loveleen Tanden
Starring: Anil Kapoor | DevPatel | Freida Pinto | Saurabh Shukla
Gil and Amanda say: “Winner of the Cadillac People’s Choice Award! A young Indian man, who grew up in the slums of Mumbai, becomes a finalist on the TV show, ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.’ Due to his background
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama | inko Kikuchi | Shosuke Tanihara
Beth says: “Japanese anime, based on a novel about a war that’s been wholly privatized by two companies who are at endless war, and the Kildren, genetically mutated humans who cannot age. Yuichi is a new pilot at one of
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