Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julien Faraut
Michael: “I’m not really an avid sports documentary viewer, but this fascinating slice of Olympic history intrigued me greatly, and I found the film utterly fascinating to watch. In the late 50’s the Japanese women’s volleyball team began a streak
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Laura Fairrie
Vicki says: “LADY BOSS tells the real story behind Jackie Collins, the well known author and sister of actress, Joan Collins. It is very effectively layered by using interviews with friends, family and archival footage. She was quite complex. I
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Robert Woods
Starring: Daniel Buckle | Evan Williams | Mary Soudi | Nadia Collins | Naomi Brockwell | St John Cowcher | Tristan McInnes
Brett says: “AN IDEAL HOST is a horror-comedy feature film debut from director Robert Woods that has cult classic written all over it. As part of many raucous midnight festival screening events, I must say that the audiences at those
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Christopher Alender
Starring: AJ Bowen | Andrea Cortés | Brigitte Kali Canales | Julia Vera | Sal Lopez | Weston Meredith
Brett says: “This is a tale of possession lodged in brujeria lore in which protagonist Cristina is discovered by locals after visiting to report on local tribal customs in an isolated region of Veracruz. Immediately, she is taken into custody
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Wes Hurley
Starring: Dan Lauria | Hersh Powers | Jonathan Bennett | Lea DeLaria | Marya Sea Kaminski | Sera Barbieri | Tyler Bocock
Michael says: “This stylized autobiography of a precocious gay boy growing up in Russia, his mail-order bride mother, and their escape to American is sweet and clever, with a few awkward moments, but overall and entertaining jaunt. The first half
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Emily Branham
Chris says: “BeBe Zahara Benet won the first season of RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE, but that was back in 2009 when the show’s cultural footprint was comparatively microscopic to now. Although Benet has reemerged in the spotlight, thanks to a final four
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Vivian Kleiman
Michael says: “Vivian Kleiman’s documentary about the emergence of queer comics as an underground force, and eventually as a mainstream pop offering, is a good introduction to the subject. It mainly focuses on some of the pioneers who started the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ziyang Zhou
Starring: Tumen | Xuan Huang | Zishan Yang
Michael says: “Easy money and investments gone wrong power this downward spiral of a film about Yang Hua, a young man flexing his entrepreneurial spirit to make some big money. His first plan, a dinosaur park on the outskirts of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Will Bakke
Starring: Alejandro Rose-Garcia | Bill Wise | C. Bailey Werner | Courtney Parchman | Jacob Artist | Johanna Braddy | Stephanie Hunt
Michael says: “I’m not really sure what prompted me to watch this film, which basically tells three intertwined stories about guests at a college house party in Austin, TX. I guess I was swayed by some of the positive reviews
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Grímur Hákonarson
Starring: Alfrun Rose | Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir | Hannes Óli Ágústsson | Sigurður Sigurjónsson | Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson | Þorsteinn Bachmann
Bob says: “A dairy farmer in a rural county of Iceland is sinking deeper into debt, and finds out that her husband, under duress, had been ratting out his neighbors when they went behind the back of the local farm
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