Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenne
Jason says: “I’m mildly curious how big a part a secondary character had in the original book; after an amusing introduction (and fairly high billing), he gets streamlined right in the background. It’s the right choice – this is a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mike Scholotz
Jason says: “The comedic documentary is not exactly rare, but it is generally reserved for people famous for being funny – after all, if something is funny, it is seldom considered important enough for a film that gets any sort
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hao Zhou
Jason says: “Here in Boston, we’ve recently been threatened with hosting the Olympics, and though the recent experience of the Big Dig should really have the whole city threatening to string up whoever first thought this was a good idea,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hyun-seok Kim
Starring: Hee-ae Kim | Hyo-joo Han | Hyun-Sung Jang | Jin Goo | oon-seok Kim | Woo Jung
Jason says: “There is a little bit of Korean text at the start and end of C’EST SI BON left untranslated (at least on the local theater’s DCP) that likely says something along the lines of it being based upon
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Wolfe
Jason says: “CATCH ME DADDY opens with a poem/folk tale about its Yorkshire setting, fitting enough but a bit surprising, as the story is driven by people and traditions that arrived in the UK from elsewhere. On the other hand,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matt O'Mahoney
Jason says: “If BLOODY KNUCKLES filmmaker Matt O’Mahoney knows one thing, it’s that measured calls for free speech are kind of missing the point. You can’t just say that offensive media has value, you have to demonstrate it, so it’s
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