Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Dosunmu
Starring: Anthony Okungbowa | Bukky Ajayi | Danai Gurira | Isaach De Bankolé | Klarissa Jackson | Yaya Alafia
Chris says: “At her wedding, Adenike (Danai Gurira), a Nigerian recently transplanted to Brooklyn is asked by her mother-in-law to bear a child named George. In her culture, this is not a request, but a command, her duty. After a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Whoopi Goldberg
Chris says: “A half-forgotten pop culture figure you probably never thought the world needed a documentary feature about, mid-century black comedienne Moms Mabley actually proves ideal for the format. Her career trajectory (playing to mostly black audiences until finding mainstream
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martin Villeneuve
Starring: Catherine Dhavernas | Jacques Languirand | Paul Ahmarani | Robert Lepagee
Jason says: “As much as I’m glad the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival is getting a better class of movies, I kind of wish that the timing of MARS ET AVRIL hitting the festival circuit and then having its regular release
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Macky Alston
Bruce says: “LOVE FREE OR DIE begins with scenes at the 2008 Lambeth Conference, a once-a-decade get together for Anglican Bishops, a by-invitation-only event engineered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. One of the Bishops noticeably uninvited is Gene
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Denden | Rin Takanashi | Ryo Kase | Ryota Nakanishi | Tadashi Okuno
Bruce says: “Kiarostami’s films have been on serious filmgoers’ lists for a long time now. Interest in his work began when he was strictly an Iranian director documenting the Iranian cultural landscape through his narrative works such as A TASTE
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mikael Buch
Starring: Amira Casar | Carmen Maura | Clément Sibony | Jarkko Niemi | Jean-François Stévenin | Nicolas Maury
Thom says: “This is director Buch’s 1st film and there’s a lot of oomph to the production that mostly works. Ruben is a young, gay. French Jew living in Finland with his Finnish partner, Teemu. He works as a postman
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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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