Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Channing Godfrey Peoples
Starring: Akron Watson | Alexis Chikaeze | Kendrick Sampson | Lori Hayes | Nicole Beharie
Michael says: “MISS JUNETEENTH tells the story of Turquoise, a mother whose dreams fell short of reality after winning the Miss Juneteenth pageant which offered her a scholarship to any historically black college of her choice. Now she wants her
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Megan Wennberg
Thom says: “This was being offered for free by PrimeVideo so I decided why not. Earlier in my life, even though I’ve always been gay, I wasn’t particularly interested in drag queens until I discovered the incomparable Divine, whom I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Serge Bozon
Starring: Adda Senani | Isabelle Huppert | José Garcia | Romain Duris
Thom says: “As you’d suspect from the title this is yet another take on the supposed-classic Robert Louis Stevenson DR. JECKYLL & MR. HYDE shape-shifting horror novel. With so many examples of previous attempts to capture the essence of the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jeremy Hersh
Starring: Brooke Bloom | Chris Perfetti | Jasmine Batchelor | Sullivan Jones
Michael says: “When Jess finds out she’s pregnant, people are happy, but rather surprised. The real surprise is that this young, African-American, Brooklynite is acting as a surrogate for her best friends, an interracial gay couple despite her own aversion
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Rating: 4 cats | 4.125 cats
Director: Josephine Decker
Starring: Elisabeth Moss | Logan Lerman | Michael Stuhlbarg | Odessa Young
Chris says: “The notion of a star-studded film about mid-20th Century gothic author Shirley Jackson would seem either a promising or dicey proposition; recruiting director Josepine Decker (MADELINE’S MADELINE), of all people, muddies it further. Fortunately, the result, adapted from a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Sweeney
Starring: Betsy Brandt | Katie Findlay | Randall Park | Tracie Thoms
Chris says: “This warped but warm and loving gay-not-gay rom-com is a strong feature debut for director/writer/actor James Sweeney. Referencing Gilmore Girls in the first fifteen minutes reveals his core aesthetic, but he both conceives of and (with his cast)
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alice Wu
Starring: Alexxis Lemire | Daniel Diemer | Leah Lewis | Wolfgang Novogratz
Michael says: “Well, I’m not really sure what to think about Alice Wu’s sweet and heartfelt confection, THE HALF OF IT. On the one hand, it’s basically a John Hughes version of Cyrano de Bergerac with a gender flip. And
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fernando Grostein Andrade
Starring: Arian Moayed | Dagmara Dominczyk | Noah Schnapp | Seu Jorge
Michael says: “Most people have families that have an element of drama to them, especially if they come from different cultures/backgrounds/traditions. In these cases, it’s often the children of these mixed marriages that help to bring different perspectives together, but
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Starring: Kelly Campbell | Mallory Adams | Michiel Huisman | Raffey Cassidy
Michael says: “After discovering that Malgorzata Szumowska had a film eligible this year, and that it was already on my list of movies I wanted to watch, I wasted no time in checking out THE OTHER LAMB. I had been
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Annie Silverstein
Starring: Amber Havard | Rob Morgan | Sara Allbright | Yolonda Ross
Michael says: “Annie Silverstein’s narrative, feature debut tackles a teenage girl living in a desolate subdivision near Houston, TX, with an incarcerated mother and an absent father, and her next door neighbor, a black, aging rodeo rider who’s is struggling
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