Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matthew Newton
Starring: Alex Dimitriades | Brendan Cowell | Ewen Leslie | Matthew Newton | Tina Bursil | Toby Schmitz
Jason says: “One night is just enough time. It’s enough time to fall in love (or out of it), enough time to get into trouble, and enough time to come to a decision. A lot can change in one night,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Thomas Hunt
Starring: Christian Baco | Frank J. Zupancic | John Tokatlidis | Laura McLean | Patricia Stasiak | Shera Bechard
Jason says: “SWEET KARMA is an ‘avenging angel’ movie with all the fat boiled off. The filmmakers know why people are seeing this movie – a hot girl killing bad men in a cool, righteous fury. And even though it’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: J. J. Abrams
Starring: Bruce Greenwood | Chris Pine | Eric Bana | Karl Urban | Leonard Nimoy | Zachary Quinto | Zoe Saldana
Diane says: “Awesome. I grew up with STAR TREK and found this film very satisfying. Impressed with art director’s restraint in keeping the futuristic look developed in the 1960s, and with the graphics of the black holes. Nice touch to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Elisa Lasowski | Ireneusz Czop | Kate Dickie | Perry Benson | Piotr Jagiello | Thomas Turgoose
Michael says: “Beautifully shot in black & white, Shane Meadows’ (THIS IS ENGLAND) latest film SOMERS TOWN is a sly look at two teenagers who become friends in working class London. Marek has recently arrived from Easter Europe and spends
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Haruka Igawa | Inowaki Kai | Kanji Tsuda | Kyôko Koizumi | Teruyuki Kagawa | Yû Koyanagi
Jason says: “There have been many sequences in movies where someone loses his or her job, but few have been so callously cruel as the one that opens TOKYO SONATA: A pretty girl walks through an office, drawing all eyes.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kevin Heffernan
Starring: April Bowlby | Cobie Smulders | Kevin Heffernan | Michael Clarke Duncan | Steve Lemme
Jason says: “I have more or less ignored BROKEN LIZARD for what are pretty stupid reasons: The trailers for SUPER TROOPERS didn’t amuse me and it later became a movie much-loved by people who were fans of comedies I disliked.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Anthony Fabian
Starring: Alice Krige | Ella Ramangwane | Sam Neill | Sophie Okonedo | Tony Kgoroge
Jason says: “The laws of nature and the laws of man are almost entirely different beasts. The former are relatively few, and constant, but allow for great complexity and variety; they say what can happen. The latter multiply continually, but
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yousry Nasrallah
Starring: Hassan El Raddad | Mahmoud Hemida | Mona Zaki | Nahed El Sebaï
Bruce says: “SCHEHERAZADE: TELL ME A STORY weaves the tales of women who, in order to survive, have to tell a story. From the opening credits featuring bright red tomatoes on a black counter top, director Yousry Nasrallah forces to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Annti-Jussi Annila
Starring: Kari Ketonen | Rain Tolk | Sonja Petäjäjärvi | Tommi Eronen | Viktor Klimenko | Ville Virtanen
Michael says: “This Finnish horror story touches on so many themes that it threatens to overwhelm, but somehow, writer Iiro Küttner manages to weave them all together and along with director Antti-Jussi Annila manages to create an elegant monster movie
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marshall Curry
Jason says: “I admit that I don’t give auto racing a whole lot of thought in general, but one aspect which I gave particularly little thought to was where new drivers come from. Make all the jokes about stock car
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