Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Alessandro Nivola | Colin Firth | James Hamrick | Kristopher Higgins | Reese Witherspoon | Seth Meriwether
Michael says: “For his latest film, Atom Egoyan tackled the controversial true story of the West Memphis Three, a court case about the shocking murder of three young boys. Three young men were targeted as the murderers because of the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Adan Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Brontis Jodorowsky | Jeremias Herskovits | Pamela Flores
Jason says: “I wouldn’t necessarily expect Alejandro Jodorowsky to be particularly prone to nostalgia; the director, writer, and ‘psychomagician’ has, throughout his career, favored the grandly imaginative and metaphysical to the mundane to an extent that few in any medium
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jerzy Rose
Starring: Adam Paul | Adebukola Bodunrin | Lyra Hill | Mike Lopez | Ted Temper
Jason says: “Even by black comedy standards, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY is kind of on the mean side. That’s no knock; mean can work, especially in a movie like this that is more about tying jokes together than building to one
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Starring: Elizabeth Gracen | Emily Foxler | Hugo Armstrong | Lauren Maher | Maury Sterling | Nicholas Brendon
Jason says: “COHERENCE is one of the talkiest, most actor-centric sci-fi films you’re ever likely to see, but this is a case where that’s a pretty good thing. Sure, something this odd and improv-heavy can invite disaster when a neat
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Vivian Qu
Jason says: “A trap street is a non-existent road placed on a map so that cartographers will be able to tell when competitors have copied their work rather than surveying the area independently. It’s not a common term in film
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ning Hao
Starring: Huang Bo | Xu Zheng | Yuan Quan | Zhang Li | Zhou Dongyu
Jason says: “Director Ning Hao has received some attention over the last few months because the Chinese censor board finally allowed the release of NO MAN’S LAND a movie from 2009 that he is reluctant to discuss, whether for political
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kei’ichi Sato | Kentarô Ohtani
Starring: Ayame Gôriki | Hiro Mizushimal | Mizuki Yamamoto | Yûka
Jason says: “One of the women in front of me was throwing her hands up roughly every ten minutes or so during this movie, and I wondered off the top of my head whether she was just having a general
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aron Gaudet | Gita Pullapilly
Starring: Aidan Gillen | Callan McAuliffe | Emory Cohen | Kymberli Bryant | Natalie Johnson | Zoe Levin
Jason says: “If you look at a map of Maine, you’ll find that the northern half of the state is primarily a grid of unincorporated rectangular territories without names, with a few slightly more inhabited towns hugging the Canadian order.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Dermot Crowley | Donald Sutherland | Geoffrey Rush | Jim Sturgess | Kiruna Stamell | Sylvia Hoeks
Bruce says: “Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) is a preeminent expert in antiquities. He authenticates, appraises and auctions only the finest works of art. A confirmed bachelor, Oldman is a virgin who could easily be classified as a fetishist. He has
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mary Dore
Chris says: “The feminist movement’s early years (roughly 1966-71) seem like such a fruitful topic for a documentary that one wonders why it hasn’t been done before, or at least with the scope of Mary Dore’s thorough, entertaining and wonderfully-titled
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