Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Su-Jin Lee
Jason says: “It is almost never difficult to figure out where HAN GONG-JU is heading, and that’s okay. It may, in fact, be part of the point. Surprise is not the only way a movie can punch the audience in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nicholas D. Wrathall
Bruce says: “Gore Vidal was one of the great characters of our time and one of the greatest minds of the past century. He invariably saw through the smoke and mirrors and was able to succinctly summarize what was going
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tate Taylor
Starring: Chadwick Boseman | Craig Robinson | Dan Aykroyd | Jill Scott | Lennie James | Nelsan Ellis | Viola Davis
Thom says: “Strangely, I can maybe blame my age for taking so long to see this gem of a bio-pic. While I have oodles of quibbles about the film the overall effect it left on me was empowering and greatly
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yosuke Fujita
Jason says: “Huh. I missed something about this movie when reading the program description, although on a certain level it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that this is a big-hearted, charming movie that pays off in some unexpected
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Benjamin Renner | Stéphane Aubier | Vincent Patar
Starring: Anne-Marie Loop | Brigitte Virtudes | Lambert Wilson | Patrice Melennec | Pauline Brunner
Jason says: “You can’t decide a whole lot about the quality of one movie from the others it references, but it still has to be considered a pretty good sign when that a poster for A TOWN CALLED PANIC hangs
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Frank Pavich
Kyle says: “Beloved of stoners and consumers of various mind-altering substances in the 1970s and beyond (full disclosure: myself included), Alejandro Jodorowsky is remembered as much for the paucity of his oeuvres, as for such classics as EL TOPO (1970)
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Andy Serkis | Gary Oldman | Jason Clarke | Judy Greer | Keri Russell | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Toby Kebbell
Thom says: “Yes, I’ve seen them all: PLANET OF THE APES (1968, 4 CATS), BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970, 4 CATS), ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1971, 4.5 CATS), CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jan Ole Gerster
Starring: Andreas Schröders | Justus von Dohnányi | Katharina Hauck | Katharina Schüttler | Tom Schilling
Bruce says: “Some films resonate so profoundly with me that I can feel myself embodied in one of the characters. For me, Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) is one of those characters. Niko transports me back to my twenties. Each move,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Bobby Cannavale | Dustin Hoffman | Emjay Anthony | John Leguizamo | Jon Favreau | Oliver Platt | Scarlett Johansson | Sofia Vergara
Jason says: “Jon Favreau’s CHEF has a line in the credits about being based on actual events, and I kind of suspect that those events may involve ‘fans’ putting a lot of personal invective into their assessments of IRON MAN
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ben Cotner | Ryan White
Kyle says: “We seem to be living in a golden age of documentaries, perhaps because reality continually proves to be more surprising than fiction, and also perhaps because much of the public finds reality television shows irresistible, including politicians. Recently
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