Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Michael Colford
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Akim Tamiroff | Anna Karina | Eddie Constantine
Michael says: “It was about 30 minutes into ALPHAVILLE when I realized I don’t think I like Godard’s films. Now I’ve only seen two, this one and BREATHLESS, so I am still open to more (BAND OF OUTSIDERS and VIVRE
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Bobby Daniel Rodriguez | Christopher Lambert | Ethan Simpson | Joe Hernandez | Julianne Moore | Ken Watanabe | Noe Hernandez | Olek Krupa | Ryo Kase | Sebastian Koch | Tenoch Huerta
Thom says: “Adapted from the Ann Patchett international best-seller this film is a powerful drama with tragic implications. A world famous opera diva (always great Moore) is hired to perform for a wealthy South American industrialist when in the midst
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Starring: Charlotte Rampling | Domhnall Gleeson | Liv Hill | Oliver Zetterström | Richard Campbell | Ruth Wilson | Tipper Seifert-Cleveland | Will Poulter
Thom says: “OK UK haunted house film needs more of Rampling. 3 cats“
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Yann Demange
Starring: Bel Powley | Brian Tyree Henry | Bruce Dern | Eddie Marsan | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Matthew McConaughey | Piper Laurie | Richie Merritt | Rory Cochrane | Taylour Paige
Thom says: “I’m more than a little tired of this genre trying hard to make basic nogoodniks into sympathetic, likable sorts, They’ve tried to make these films workable since the beginning of genre filmmaking, but this one, despite musts-see McConaughey,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Chrius Weitz
Starring: Ben Kingsley | Greg Hill | Greta Scacchi | Mélanie Laurent | Michael Aronov | Michael Benjamin Hernandez | Oscar Isaac | Pêpê Rapazote
Thom says: “Musts-see Isaac & Ben Kingsley drove me to watch this but the Israeli capture of the notorious Adolf Eichmann in Argentina years after the end of WWII is tedious. Kingsley hams it up pretty good.
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Dan Fogelman
Starring: Annette Bening | Antonio Banderas | Jean Smart | Mandy Patinkin | Olivia Wilde | Oscar Isaac | Samuel L. Jackson | Sergio Peris-Mencheta
Thom says: “Once I realized that the director is largely responsible for the mediocre television hit THIS IS US, I should have avoided it. A NYC couple’s tragic story reverberates over continents and lifetimes, no, really. I always enjoy Oscar
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Director: Andrew Baird
Starring: Colin Salmon | Guy Pearce | Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson | Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz | Travis Fimmel
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jay Silverman
Starring: Johanna Braddy | Mary Pat Gleason | Mimi Kennedy | Shashawnee Hall | William Moseley
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Michele Civetta
Starring: Bruce Dern | Frank Grillo | Olivia Munn | Shea Whigham | Zach Avery
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Sara Colangelo
Starring: Amy Ryan | Laura Benanti | Michael Keaton | Shunori Ramanathan | Stanley Tucci | Talia Balsam | Tate Donovan
