Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Morin
Starring: Allocha Schneider | Antoine Bertrand | Antoine LӃcuyer | Camille Mongeau | Christian de la Cortina
Jason says: “I gather writer/director Robert Morin is kind of a big deal in French-Canadian film, which doesn’t surprise me from watching LES 4 SOLDATS; it’s a very confident, assured independent film, impressive for how it can take relatively minimal
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Herman Yau
Starring: Fan Siu-wong | Huang Yi | Ip Chun | Lam Suet | Rose Chan | Sammo Hung | To Yu-hang | Yuen Biao
Kyle says: “The immense popularity of the two Ip Man movies, starring Donnie Yen and directed by Wilson Yip, made a sequel inevitable; but what we actually got was a fanciful prequel starring charismatic Wing Chun expert To Yu-hang (also
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wong Jing
Starring: Chow Yun-fat | Francis Ng | Huang Xiaoming | Sammo Hung | Yasuaki Kurata | Yuan Quan
Kyle says: “Seen in its North American Premiere, THE LAST TYCOON is a rip-roaring old-fashioned Hong Kong gangster flick with some of the biggest names in Asian cinema. What you see in the cast list above is what you will
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rakesh Roshan
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan | Hrithik Roshan | Kangana Ranaut | Priyanka Chopra | Vivek Oberoi
Jason says: “Here’s a funny coincidence – Bollywood superhero movie KRRISH came out the same summer as SUPERMAN RETURNS and its sequel KRRISH 3 (I’ll explain later) is hitting theaters the Diwali after Warner Brothers delivered a Superman movie franchise
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chad Crawford Kinkle
Starring: Daniel Manche | Kaitlin Cullum | Larry Fessenden | Lauren Ashley Carte | Sean Bridgers | Sean Young
Jason says: “JUG FACE is the sort of horror movie that I often have trouble with, where any hint of supernatural activity actually seems somewhat deflating, as there’s plenty of real-world unpleasantness at work. It’s done well enough to overcome
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chris James Thompson
Chris says: “As a teenaged Milwaukee native/resident, the Jeffrey Dahmer case obviously hit close to home for me, as it would for anyone to have something so high profile and extremely grotesque occur in your backyard. This documentary is both
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yuichi Fukuda
Starring: Fumika Shimizu | Ken Yasuda | Nana Katase | Ryohei Suzuki | Tsuyoshi Muro
Jason says: “Look, I’m not going to make HENTAI KAMEN out to be anything other than it is: It is a deeply silly, tacky, crude spoof of the superhero genre that takes Warren Ellis’s description of their outfits as ‘underwear
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jeremy Kipp Mitchell | John Mitchell
Jason says: “It’s odd but true: These days, an act like Future Folk can be both a local secret and have a national (or international) cult following. Even if both cases are true, a movie centered around such a band
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Abigail Breslin | David Hewlett | Michelle Nolden | Peter DaCunha | Peter Outerbridge | Stephen McHattie
Jason says: “HAUNTER is the kind of horror movie that is in many ways so well-built that it almost gets in its own way when someone sees it, likes it, and wants to recommend it: The film has a hook
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sion Somo
Starring: Chika Uchida | Kanji Tsuda | Kazuya Kojim | Makoto Togashi | Megumi Kagurazaka | Miki Mizuno | Ryuju Kobayashi
Jason says: “I’m not quite sure what the rationale is for cutting a half hour out of GUILTY OF ROMANCE for non-Japanese audiences; Sion Sono’s fans have proven quite willing to sit through a long movie over the past few
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