Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Michael Colford
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: AlexHibbert | Ashton Sanders | Janelle Monáe | Mahershala Ali | Naomie Harris | Trevante Rhodes
Michael says: “Barry Jenkins second feature film, following the delightful, indie romance, MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY, is a bit of a visual poem, exploring race and sexuality in a way that at first glance might seem straightforward, but is surely something
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Randall Wright
Bruce says: “David Hockney as a subject is fascinating, complicated and ever so broad. In the contemporary art world, he is nearly without peer, when one considers the breadth and consistent quality of his work. No documentary could truly do
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Starring: Frances McDormand | George Clooney | Josh Brolin | RalphFiennes | Scarlett Johansson | Tilda Swinton
Thom says: “The Coen Brothers have had a long, steady run of super-loved films that they have directed and they very rarely fail to hit my highest rating so that this palpably fun film didn’t achieve that fantastic distinction is
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Pablo Trap
Starring: Franco Masini | Gastón Cocchiarale | Giselle Motta | Guillermo Francella | Lili Popovich | Peter Lanzani
Bruce says: “Director Trapero (White Elephant) strikes all the right notes in this truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale about the Puccio clan. Guillermo Francella is sensational as Arquimedes Puccio, a vigilante who kidnapped and killed several people from prominent families in protest of
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Christian Desmares | Franck Ekinci
Starring: Jean Rochefort | Macha Grenon | Marc-André Grondin | Marion Cotillard | Olivier Gourmet | Philippe Katerin
Jason says: “The French title of this film, AVRIL ET LE MONDE TRUQUÉ, actually translates to ‘April in the Twisted World’, which may be more fitting, because as much as it is extraordinary and a delight to watch, it’s a
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jordan Rubin
Starring: Chad Anderson | Cortney Palm | Hutch Dano | Jake Weary | Lexi Atkins | Peter Gilroy | Rachel Melvin
Jason says: “ZOMBEAVERS gives the audience what they want from a movie with that title, pretty much the way they want it, and that way involves puppets. Puppets and blood. “Director Jordan Rubin and co-writers Al & Jon Kaplan are
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Damián Szifrón
Starring: Dario Grandinetti | Erica Rivas | Germán de Silva | Julieta Zylberberg | Oscar Martinez | Osmar Núñez
Kyle says: “WILD TALES is Argentina’s entry into Academy Award contention for Best Foreign Language Film of 2014. I am always amused when the same people who usually dismiss Oscar-bait talk out of hand suddenly invoke it with the sanctimonious
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Starring: Andrew Sensenig | Barbara Crampton | Larry Fessenden | Lisa Marie | Monte Markham
Jason says: “It’s funny which little details will make a movie really work for someone. Take WE ARE STILL HERE, for instance; it’s quite a well-executed ghost story with a nifty cast, good for a decent star rating even if
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: David Rühm
Starring: Cornelia Ivancan | Dominic Oley | Jeanette Hain | Karl Fischer | Tobias Moretti
Jason says: “The title of THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE (‘DER VAMPIR AUF DER COUCH’ in the original German) suggests something that may not quite be hackneyed, although I’m sure I’ve seen a vampire getting psychoanalysis before, but which is a
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Perry Blackshear
Starring: Evan Dumouchel | MacLeod Andrews | Margaret Ying Drake
Jason says: “It feels a bit like giving the game away to say that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE is seldom the movie it’s expected to be from the descriptions written in festival programs, which talks about how Wyatt (MacLeod Andrews)
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