Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Todd Douglas Miller
Chris says: “Not to diminish all the great moon-landing footage, what stuck with me most here was the first half-hour: a fascinating time capsule of what this country and its people looked like fifty years ago, restored to appear as
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Starring: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir | Jóhann Sigurðarson | Jörundur Ragnarsson | Juan Camillo Roman Estrada
Brett says: “A surefire candidate for a Chlotrudis ‘Best Use of Music in a Film,’ WOMAN AT WAR dives deep into the story of an middle-aged eco-activist who dedicates herself to putting a cause she believes in above her own
Read the review...By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Penny Lane
Chris says: “I totally get Satanism as a rejection against ‘straight’ society, but how ’bout as activism to *protect* separation of church and state? My skepticism, however, gradually broke down–as she conveyed with her last doc NUTS!, director Penny Lane
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Garret Price
Chris says: “Given his tragic death in a freak accident at age 27, there’s no away a documentary about Russian born, LA-raised actor Anton Yelchin can avoid being sentimental; still, once you get past all the childhood home movies, homemade
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Starring: Agyness Deyn | Ashley Benson | Cara Delevingne | Dan Stevens | Dylan Gelula | Elisabeth Moss | Gayle Rankin
Brett says: “Equal parts messy and well-crafted, out of this year’s many films to feature the trials and pitfalls of singer stardom, this one will takes the prize for most unique and likely the most authentic. This particular film carries
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Samuel Maoz
Starring: Lior Ashkenazi | Sarah Adler | Yonaton Shiray
Chris says: “Despite the title-referencing dance step, where one always ends up in the same place where one started, this is continually unpredictable to a degree most other films are not. The extended mid-section swaps the bookending domestic melodrama for
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jaron Albertin
Starring: Alessandro Nivola | Eli Haley | Johnny Knoxville | Julianne Nicholson | K. Todd Freeman | Phoebe Young
Michael says: “WEIGHTLESS is notable to me for giving the handsome and talented Alessandro Nivola a challenging leading role as Joel, a troubled man working in a landfill in rural America. There’s reference to mental illness, and an occasional explosion
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Jeffrey Tambor | Michael Palin | Paddy Considine | Simon Russell Beale | Steve Buscemi
Chris says: “Excessively funny and appropriately dark, from the ‘musical emergency’ opening to the slapstick moving-of-the-body to a deliriously profane argument playing out in front of a small child. I may need a second viewing to determine whether this is
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Starring: documentary
Chris says: “Never a movie star but definitely a character, Scotty Bowers’ life was inadvertently custom-built for a documentary. He ran a brothel inside a Hollywood Blvd. gas station in the years following World WarII, one that infamously catered to
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Stephen Chow Sing-chi
Starring: Deng Chao | Jelly’ Lin Yu | Kitty Zhang Yuqi | Luo Show
Jason says: “About ten years ago, Stephen Chow Sing-chi was briefly kind of popular in the States when the writer/director/star’s quick one-two punch of SHAOLIN SOCCER and KUNG FU HUSTLE, followed by CJ7, had pretty good theatrical runs for foreign
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