Teaching audiences to view films actively
…heels of ANATOMY OF HELL (although actually filmed beforehand) comes Catherine Breillat’s SEX IS COMEDY! This fascinating film is a narrative feature the details the difficulties of filming the seduction…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Anne Makepeace
…years ago, but one night Jesse Littledoe Baird, a Mashpee Wampanoag, has a dream about her people returning, and she is later inspired to study and learn more about the…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Patty Jenkins
Starring: Bruce Dern | Charlize Theron | Cristina Ricci | Pruitt Taylor-Vince | Scott Wilson
Peg says: “Saw this yesterday. A very gripping and intense character study of a female serial killer (based upon a true story). Charlize Theron is Aileen, an uneducated but resilient…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Arthur Dong
…success that had become lost in history. Now fortunately, more people will hear of it. Nancy Kwan tells of her breakout success in THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG, and her…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Keijser
Starring: Ayham Abou Ammar | Hatem Ali | Kathryn Kirkpatrick | Mark Camacho | Mark Hachem | Najlaa Al Khamri | Yara Sabri
…business, dubbed Peace by Chocolate, noticed by everyone including Justin Trudeau, who holds up the family as an example of a refugee success story. “While PEACE BY CHOCOLATE is a…
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Rating: 0.5 cats
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Bijou Phillips | Brad Renfro | Michael Pitt | Nick Stahl | Rachel Miner
…pale of any reasonable authority – they are kind of like juvenile versions of Colonel Kurtz in APOCALYPSE NOW.” 1/2 a cat For Robin’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/bully.htm” …
Read the review...…to the brim with excruciatingly long shots of the Badlands and its great motorcycle touring roads, and a complete lack of understanding of the biker community. That a single woman…
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Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Genesis Rodriguez | Haley Joel Osment | Johnny Depp | Justin Long | Michael Parks
Thom says: “Podcaster Wallace Bryton (a forever boyish Justin Long) and his head dude Teddy (a decidedly chubby Osment) are looking for odd, disgusting clips for their podcast and come…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Aaron Katz
Starring: Brendan McFadden | Chris Lankenau | Jeb Pearson | Raúl Castillo | Trieste Kelly Dunn
…figure out what’s going on. Which appears to be nothing – at least, not until Doug spots someone watching them as they search Rachel’s room. “Looking at the plot in…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Starring: Bembol Roco | Lovi Poe | Mercedes Cabral | Nora Aunor
…Now on the far side of middle age, Bangas-An is worried about having an heir. Adopting has not been a successful option. Shalena’s solution is for Bangas-An to find another…
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