Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.75
Director: Ujicha
Starring: Chisako Hara | Mitsuko Hoshi | Moeka Haruhi | Nao Hanai | Shunsuke Hirai
…left the upper halves of their bodies sheared away with the statue. With her only family a long-comatose grandmother, Beniko is taken in by Enju, an old friend of her…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Starring: Leonid Mozgovoy | Mariya Kuznetsova | Sergei Dontsov
…He has been compared to Tarkovsky but doesn’t have the cult following yet so we weren’t sure if it was time. So, home sick one day in December I watched…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Anne Sundberg | Ricki Stern
…currently in the public eye. “THE END OF AMERICA follows ten steps which Wolf claims are a blueprint for closing down a normal society. She compares what has happened under…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Allison Janney | Bobby Cannavale | Bojana Novakovic | Caitlin Carver | Julianne Nicholson | Margot Robbie | Paul Walter Hauser | Sebastian Stan
…a friend of Gillooly’s hired a couple of thugs to injure Kerrigan after a practice session, thus making it impossible for her to compete. They were successful in bludgeoning the…
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Richard Griffin
Starring: Jamie DuFault | Lee Rush | Mary DeBerry | Michael Thurber | Nick Apostolides | Samantha Acampora
…example of what’s coming: A jokey flick that’s surprisingly entertaining for how low-rent an affair it is. “It’s the 1980s, a time when almost nobody had a mobile phone to…
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: David Oyelowo | John Cusack | Macy Gray | Matthew McConaughey | Nicole Kidman | Scott Glenn | Zac Efron
…murderer. He reconnects with his family, especially his oversexed younger brother, who ends up driving them around. Into the group comes a trailer trash gal (Kidman at her sexiest) who…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ana Piterbarg
Starring: Daniel Fanego | Javier Godino | Oscar Alegre | Sofia Gala | Soledad Villamil | Viggo Mortensen
…well as being involved with a nasty murder). Pedro busts in on his twin’s reverie and comes out much the worse for wear. Agustin, unbelievably, decides to impersonate Pedro and…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Herman Yau
Starring: Anita Yuen Wing-yee | Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Gillian Chung Yan-tung | Jordan Chan Siu-chun | Timmy Hung Tin-ming | Xiong Xin Xin
…a new movie about Bruce Lee’s teacher Ip Man coming out every year since Donnie Yen first played the role for Wilson Yip in 2008, it means you’ve been paying…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Till Schauder
…The A.S. Shiraz team also grows and improves through a coming together and willingness to practice and learn. For those that like basketball the games are exciting. “Sheppard eventually stays…
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Anthony Dixon
Starring: Jamie Abrams | Jenna Jade Rain | Ryan Brownlee
…died two weeks ago – funeral, burial, whole nine yards. However, he was a grad student doing research on tissue regeneration and the like, and his best friend and research…
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