Teaching audiences to view films actively
Nominations for the 27th annual Chlotrudis Awards were finalized by the film group’s nominating committee this past weekend, ahead of its March 21st awards ceremony, via Zoom, the first time…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bill Plympton | Hiroyuki Nakao | Ignacio Ferreras | Kan Eguchi | Keiko Sootmoe | Masaya Kakei | Richard Fenwick | Riichiro Mashima | Takanobu Mizuno | Takashi Tanaguchi | Tetsurô Kodama | Tôru Hosokawa
Starring: Junichi Mogi | Osamu Shitara | Shôko Nakagawa | Yuki Himura
…reputations along with good slapstick. It’s a mini-masterpiece of steady but escalating chaos, pushing each gag just a little further until it’s a complete and utter madhouse. “It’s not just…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Drew Goddard
Starring: Anna Hutchison | Chris Hemsworth | Fran Kranz | Jesse Williams | Kristen Connolly | Richard Jenkins
…for a weekend of drinking, sex, and debauchery, only to be violently murdered one by one by an evil something-or-other? They couldn’t even come up with an original title! This…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jordan Galland
Starring: Brooke Nevin | Christine Evangelista | Danny Masterson | Joey Kern | John Ventimaglia | Kris Lemche
Jason says: “It would have been really easy to make ALTER EGOS little more than a feature-length series of jokes made at the expense of comic book clichés loosely connected…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Diana Whitten
…their services. Footage of Gomperts repeatedly facing opposition from protestors gives the film its only dramatic weight; the rest plays like a feature-length commercial for Women on Waves, not going…
Read the review...…or at least 5 of the nominated films. Details and tickets for the 30th annual Chlotrudis Awards are available at the Brattle Theatre’s website. Here follows the complete list of…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Starring: Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson | Ester Bibi | Hilmir Snær Guðnason | Ingvar Sigurdsson | Noomi Rapace
…savored the THE WITCH are likely to find some of complementary visual components from that film. In some ways, LAMB feels like it occurs within the same cinematic universe as…
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: David Lowery
Starring: Alicia Vikander | Dev Patel | Joel Edgerton | Sarita Choudhury
…know… take advantage of their celebrity? (Hmmm… could this be a comment on today’s world that the extensive celebrity status our communities face?) At any rate, while the heavy-handedness of…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Starring: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir | Jóhann Sigurðarson | Jörundur Ragnarsson | Juan Camillo Roman Estrada
…and both the co-writer, Ólafur Egilsson, and DP, Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson, were on our Headtrip jury (versus Heartstrings). http://mergingartsproductions.com/Film/SSS/2019/Judges.aspx?Program=2 https://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com/bergsteinnbjorgulfsson https://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com/olafuregilsson“ Julie says: “I give this 4.8 cats. Many funny moments…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Bruno Cremer | Charlotte Rampling | Jocques Nolot
…is really shattering.” 3 1/2 cats Laura says: “Charlotte Rampling gives the strongest lead female performance of this year so far.” 4 1/2 cats For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/underthesand.htm”…
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