Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yu Ha
Jason says: “GANGNAM 1970 (or GANGNAM BLUES, the name under which it’s traveling the festival circuit) is the sort of movie where I tend to spend the first ten or fifteen minutes frantically trying to remember the seemingly dozens of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Derek Kwok Chi-kin | Henri Wong Chi-hang
Jason says: “There are plenty of silly things in FULL STRIKE- it is, in fact, ridiculous more or less non-stop – but the filmmakers never really portray badminton as a sport that is, itself, laughable. They could have, and that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elizabeth Lucas
Jason says: “FADE TO WHITE alternates between three science fiction stories taking place in and around New York City’s Central Park over the course of 112 years, and while they are in some ways a bit of a mixed bag
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Raul Garcia
Jason says: “Raul Garcia has been making the various pieces of EXTRAORDINARY TALES for a while; three of its five segments, all based upon Edgar Allan Poe stories, are listed on the IMDb as shorts released as far back as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ángel Vivas
Jason says: “EXTINCTION starts off problematically, with a prologue that involves three people doing what seems like the same dumb thing in a row, leading to nearly everybody getting killed by zombies. It’s the sort of thing that has the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Laxton
Jason says: “There is much more to the life of Euphemia ‘Effie’ Gray than the film bearing her name presents; it limits itself to what are likely the three worst years of her life and maintains so tight a focus
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Maude Michaud
Jason says: “Maude Michaud’s DYS- looks to be on the path to dystopia as it starts, but as with many stories that start with an outbreak, that turns out to be the background for some intense dysfunction. It’s the sort
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dibakar Bannerjee
Jason says: “This movie has an exclamation point in its title, and putting that together with it being from India yields a certain set of expectations – something flashy that jumps from tone to tone, at least some of them
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jason Lei Howden
Jason says: “I skipped DEATHGASM at Independent Film Festival Boston figuring it would play Fantasia while other things on the IFFBoston schedule might not otherwise play theaters, and the gambit paid off. Not just because the movie played, but also
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hiroshi Shinagawa
Jason says: “Even the biggest zombie movies tend to be pretty simple things, and I wouldn’t necessarily say DEADMAN INFERNO (aka Z ISLAND) was exactly complicated. It does have a fair amount more going on than is typical for this
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