Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Strickland
Starring: Caroline Catz | Gwendoline Christie | Julian Barratt | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Sidse Babett Knudsen
Brett says: “While I tend to label this as a “must watch” it might be more accurately described as “I am so fortunate to know this movie exists.” Not a piece that will tickle everyone’s fancy, director of the strange
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matt Kane
Starring: Christen Harper | Richard Kind | Simone Policano | Steven M. Robertson | Susan Blackwell
Michael says: “Sure, why wouldn’t I assume the main character, played by Richard Kind, is named Auggie? In fact, Auggies are a brand of new, augmented reality spectacles that provide the wearer with a companion that they can see and
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hillary Demmon | Robert Anderson Clift
Michael says: “Co-produced and co-directed by his nephew, Robert Anderson Clift, classic film actor and queer icon Montgomery Clift gets what is hopefully a more accurate story of his life in the documentary, MAKING MONTGOMERY CLIFT. The thesis of this
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Farrelly
Starring: Dimiter D. Marinov | Linda Cardellini | Mahershala Ali | Mike Hatton | P.J. Byrne | Sebastian Maniscalco | Viggo Mortensen
Thom says: “Yes, this was the Oscar winner for best film of 2018 and there is a lot to like about this “road movie”. Tony Lip is a hothead bouncer for the legendary Copacabana and when its closed for renovations
Read the review...By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jennifer Trainer
Chris says: “North Adams, a depressed former mill town in far Northwestern Massachusetts is as unlikely a place for a contemporary art museum as one could imagine; MUSEUM TOWN is an in-depth study of how MassMOCA came to inhabit former
Read the review...By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Holmes
Chris says: “A genuinely inspiring story on its own, MAIDEN is further enhanced by its subject, Tracy Edwards, whom through considerable determination, chutzpah and luck managed to conceive of and lead the first all-female team to participate in the Whitbread
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ali Abbasi
Starring: Eero Milonoff | Eva Melander | Jörgen Thorsson
Chris says: “From the writer of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, a contemporary fable about Tina (Eva Melander), a somewhat dumpy middle-aged guard for the Swedish border patrol who is excellent in her job, mostly due to her intense, visceral, almost superhuman
Read the review...By Jeffrey Pike
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nathan Morlando
Starring: Bill Paxton | Colm Feore | Joe Cobden | Josh Wiggins | Sophie Nélisse
Jeffrey says: “A tidy, well-wrought, low-budget thriller, with some of the spirit of both LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and ANIMAL KINGDOM, it earns its thrills the hard way, by slowly building tension to nearly intolerable levels, rather than spilling
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Laurent Cantet
Starring: Florian Beaujean | Julien Souve | Mamadou Doumbia | Marina Fois | Matthieu Lucci | Mélissa Guilbert | Wanda Rammach
Michael says: “Laurent Cantet (THE CLASS)has constructed a fascinating film exploring the desire to kill, racism, and class in THE WORKSHOP. Centered around a racially mixed group of blue-collar students in a summer writing class led by an upper-class, middle-aged,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Clea DuVall
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Clea DuVall | Cobie Smulders | Jason Ritter | Melanie Lynskey | Natasha Lyonne
Michael says: “THE INTERVENTION also has a summary that might give you pause.Ruby and Peter join three other couples on a holiday weekend at a beautiful family home in the bayou, but discover that their friend Annie has engineered the
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