Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hark Tsui
Starring: Andy Lau | Bingbing Li | Carina Lau | Chao Deng | Tony Leung Ka-fai
Jason says: “DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME hits a lot of my sweet spots – it can be described as a Chinese martial-arts take on Sherlock Holmes, with a blockbuster budget, Tsui Hark directing with abandon,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Michael Fassbender | Viggo Mortenson | Vincent Cassel
Toni says: “I am not a person that either loves or hates Cronenberg but I am less into perverse stuff and more into his thrillers or more dialogue driven pieces with solid visuals and sound. I accidentally ended up seeing
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood | James McAvoy | Justin Long | Kevin Kline | Robin Wright | Tom Wilkinson
Thom says: “Two must-see actors, a passing interest in Redford films (his QUIZ SHOW was my #1 film of 1974!), & the noteworthy cast drove me to a theatre to see this & I’m glad I did. Certainly while I
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Rodman Flender
Julie says: “I went into this with great trepidation. I was not sure how exciting it would be to watch a film about Conan Obrien touring since I always felt the Conan show was just okay…But I was curious to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Shion Sono
Starring: Asuka Kurosawa | Denden | Hikari Kajiwara | Megumi Kagurazaka | Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Jason says: “Clearly, Sion Sono is a guy I’m going to have to pay more attention to going forward. So far, I’ve seen three of his movies and really liked all three, even though they’re frequently the very definition of
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chuan Lu
Starring: Hideo Nakaizumi | Ye Liu | Yuanyuan Gao
Toni says: “We drove up to Boston on a Friday night from RI in traffic to see the one week only CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH up at the Kendall. “Maybe it is the use of black and white to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Cindy Meehl
Toni says: “The inspiring story of Buck Brannaman. He took bad from the past and made good by translating it to understanding horses as a real live horse whisperer. As many have mentioned, you really don’t have to be into
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Hitomi Satô | Jun Inoue | Keisuke Horibe | Rie Tomosaka | Ryô Nishikido | Shiori Kutsuna
Jason says: “A BOY AND HIS SAMURAI has a well-worn fantasy premise that could have very easily proceeded in a very predictable fashion. However, even if the original novel it was based on did not have its time-lost samurai discovering
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Stevan Mena
Starring: Alexandra Daddario | Brett Rickaby | Michael Biehn | Nolan Gerard Funk | Spencer List
Thom says: “This is an unusually well-made horror film that is positively horrifying, and definitely nor for the feint-of-heart. If graphic horror films leave you repulsed or disturbed don’t see this shocker. In the prologue of the film a 6-year-old
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mike Mills
Starring: Christopher Plummer | Ewan McGregor | Goran Visnjic | Kai Lennox | Mélanie Laurent
Chris says: “BEGINNERS puts a novel twist on the coming out narrative: this time, it’s the father, 75-year-old Hal (Christopher Plummer) who tells his son Oliver (Ewan McGregor) that he’s gay. Neither played for farce nor melodrama, the relatively painless
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