Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Ansel Elgort | Jeffrey Wright | Nicole Kidman | Oakes Fegley
Thom says: “This film was adapted from the gigantic best-seller of the same name by Donna Tartt. When my brother Chuk and I had taken our previous cat Mandy in for a check-up I remember the lady veterinarian and Chuk
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson | Emory Cohen | Fiona Glascott | Jane Brennan | Julie Walters | Saoirse Ronan
Jason says: “Homesickness can be a tricky thing to put on screen. It’s easy enough to have someone say that’s how she feels, or make the other place look beautiful before quickly cutting back, but those techniques can be superficial,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Ciarán Hinds | Denis Moschitto | Eric Bana | Jim Broadbent | Julia Stiles | Rebecca Hall | Riz Ahmed
Jason says: “It says something about humanity, the world we live in, or perhaps just me personally, that I’m bored by the brand of paranoia that keeps CLOSED CIRCUIT running. Is that in spite of how visible abuse of power
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Cillian Murphy | Colin Farrell | Colm Meany | Kerry Condon | Shirley Henderson
Diane says: “I haven’t innapropriately laughed so much at violence since HAPPINESS. INTERMISSION, about a dozen or so people in a working-class neighborhood of Dublin dealing with violence and broken hearts, is made strong by excellent pacing and editing and
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