Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Soi Cheang
Starring: Louis Koo | Michelle Ye Suet Lam | Richi Jen | Stanley Sui-Fan Fung
Jason says: “Crime movies are filled with hitmen, to the extent that, if these numbers existed in the real world, it would be a shock if any potential murder victim lived more than a couple of days and nobody could make
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alexander Voytinskiy | Dmitriy Kiselev
Starring: Ekaterina Vilkkova | Grigory Dobrygin | Valeriy Zolotukhin | Viktor Verzhbitskiy | Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Jason says: “It may have improved in the two weeks since I headed north for this film festival, but the summer movie line-up for 2010 could be described as uninspiring. It’s enough to make me wonder why Universal hasn’t found
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Claudia Tuyet Scheffel
Starring: Jordis Herrmann | Nano Nguyen | Niklas Wetzel | Tri An Bui | Vy Luu
Michael says: “This one is a bit of a mind-bender. Trúc is a young Vietnamese woman going to college in a tiny town in the remote German mountains. Feeling alienated and alone, she takes a guided tour of a nearby
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Meeks
Starring: Annette Deao | Danny Wolohan | Kevin P. Braig | Noah Centineo | Will Poulter
Michael says: “Low-key, well told story of the struggle with addiction as a young man and his foster brother try to find a path in life. Strong performance by Will Poulter. 4 cats“
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cyril Aris
Starring: Camille Salameh | Hasan Akil | Julia Kassar | Mounia Akl | Tino Karam
Michael says: “First half is a playful, passionate, and utterly convincing tale of two people falling in love, then a shift when the realities of two people who want very different things out of life make the last half painful
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Carney
Starring: Beth Fallon | Marcella Plunkett | Nick Jonas | Paul Rudd | Peter McDonald
Vicki says: “POWER BALLAD is a crowd-pleasing movie about friendship, ambition, and the world of songwriting. Paul Rudd plays Rick Power, a wedding singer whose dreams of musical success remain unfulfilled while Nick Jonas plays Danny, former boy-band star trying
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dylan Frederick | Nicholas Clark
Brett says: “If one goes into AMERICAN THEATER without prior knowledge, the first few minutes could likely have that person questioning if this is an actual theatrical production or a WAITING FOR GUFFMAN redux. Despite this, it does not take
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Starring: Dylan Baker | Gillian Anderson | Hannah Einbinder | Jack Haven | Patrick Fischler | Zach Cerry
Michael says: “Jane Schoenbrun’s follow-up to I SAW THE TV GLOW moves from sad to joyful in the fascinating take on slasher films being a perverse orgasmic release for many fans of the genre. it’s also an unabashedly queer film
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robin Campillo
Starring: Elodie Bouchez | Eloy Pohu | Maksym Slivinskyi | Nathan Japy | Pierfrancesco Favino
Michael says: “Enzo, a sixteen-year-old boy from a wealthy family in France, becomes dissatisfied with his life of privilege and manifests his teen rebellion by shifting his attention from his education to working on a construction site. There he befriends
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Radu Jude
Starring: Adonis Tanta | Alexandra Haripu | Ana Dumitrascu | Gabriel Spahiu | Oana Maria Zaharia
Chris says: “Jude’s take on the venerable Bram Stoker character is gleefully profane and maybe the best possible use of AI (i.e.–satirically.) Split into a dozen or so vignettes, at nearly three hours, it didn’t need to be longer than Do
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