Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Ellora Torchia | Hayley Squires | Joel Fry | John Hollingworth | Mark Monero | Reece Shearsmith
Brett says: “From Director Ben Wheatley comes this eerie tale whose paranoia and alarm runs parallel to the global COVID-19 pandemic, but as the viewer soon discovers, this is no “Coronavirus: The Movie.” “After an establishing montage of the haunting,
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Rating: 3.2 cats
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Elisabeth Moss | James Purefoy | Jeremy Irons | Keeley Hawes | Luke Evans | Sienna Miller | Tom Hiddleston
Jason says: “HIGH-RISE carries so many illustrious pedigrees, such as the novel by science fiction author J.G. Ballard, and a committed performance by star Tom Hiddleston, and its press notes are filled with so many adjectives such as ‘ambitious’ and
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Michael Smiley | Peter Ferdinando | Reece Shearsmith | Richard Glover | Ryan Pope
Jason says: “Having an annual pass to the Brattle Theater means that it’s no big deal to come back the next night when the attempt to see three movies after a full day in the office means that something gets
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Alice Lowe | Eileen Davies | Kenneth Hadley | Richard Lumsden | Steve Oram
Jason says: “Ben Wheatley’s previous two films weren’t everyone’s cup of tea, and he hasn’t exactly gone conventional with SIGHTSEERS. It’s quite often as funny as it is twisted (or, perhaps, vice versa), overflowing with strange, messy, disturbing romantic comedy.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Wingard | Adrian Garcia Bogliano | Andrew Traucki | Angela Bettis | Banjong Pisanthanakun | Ben Wheatley | Bruno Forzani | Ernesto Díaz Espinoza | Hélène Cattet | Jake West | Jason Eisener | Jon Schnepp | Jorge Michel Grau | Kaare Andrews | Lee Hardcastle | Marcel Sarmiento | Mikael Wulff | Nacho Vigalondo | Noboru Iguchi | Simon Rumley | Srdjan Spasojevic | Thomas Cappelen Malling | Ti West | Timo Tjahjanto | Xavier Gens | Yoshihiro Nishimura | Yudai Yamaguchi
Starring: Darenzia | Greg De Cuir | Je$$ica | Kyra Zagorsky | Match | Peter Pedrero
Thom says: “The idea for this film is certainly clever enough and if tight enough reins had been applied it might well have been a classic but to choose 27 directors to make 26 short films, each choosing a letter
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Emma Fryer | Harry Simpson | Michael Smiley | MyAnna Buring | Neil Maskell | Struan Rodger
Thom says: “This is the final TIFF 2011 film that I review, excepting others I will most likely see after this date. Quite a few are already playing in theaters including LE HAVRE, THE DESCENDANTS, MONEY PIT, & others. Wheatley
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: David Schaal | Julia Deakin | Kerry Peacock | Robert Hill | Robin Hill | Tony Way
Jason says: “A lot of gangster movies want you to know that they aren’t just about crime, but about family. You can’t miss it, they’re so formal and insistent that it becomes overbearing. DOWN TERRACE, while it has other flaws,
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