Let Us In (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Craig Moss
Starring: Eric Callero | Mackenzie Ziegler | Makenzie Moss | O'Neill Monahan | Sadie Stanley | Siena Agudong | Tobin Bell
Pig (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Starring: Alex Wolff | Cassandra Violet | Elijah Ungvary | Julia Bray | Nicolas Cage
Brett says: “They had a Cook with them who stood alone For boiling chicken with a marrow-bone, Sharp flavoring-powder and a spice of savor. He could distinguish London ale by flavor, And he could roast and seethe and broil and
Read the review...Birds of Prey: and the Fabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cathy Yan
Starring: Ali Wong | Chris Messina | Ella Jay Basco | Ewan McGregor | Jurnee Smollett | Margot Robbie | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Rosie Perez
Michael says: “Big, dumb, super-hero action film? Check! Big-budget blockbuster written and directed by a couple of women, starring four kick-ass ladies as the costumed protagonists? What, what? Yeah, you got the right. Borrowing loosely from a DC Comic made famous by
Read the review...Gattaca (1997)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Alam Arkin | Elias Koteas | Ethan Hawke | Gore Vidal | Jude Law | Loren Dean | Uma Thurman
Michael says: “The premise was intriguing, and it was on a list of essential film’s to watch, but Andrew Niccol’s directorial debut, was a big loser for me. When a genetically inferior man tricks his way into a job that
Read the review...The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Billy Gray | Frances Bavier | Hugh Marlowe | Lock Martin | Michael Rennie | Patricia Neal | Sam Jaffe
Michael says: “I always had the impression that the 50s science fiction movies were cheesy and dumb, and not really worth the time to watch them. I’m glad I was wrong, and that I decided to check out THE DAY
Read the review...The Wild Pear Tree (2019)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Akin Aksu | Bennu Yildirimlar | Dogu Demirkol | Hazar Ergüçlü | Murat Cemcir | Öner Erkan | Serkan Keskin
Michael says: “I am a big fan of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, despite the dense, sometimes inscrutable films he makes with running times sometimes well over three hours. His first film, DISTANT, plays like a sober, languid, dramatic version
Read the review...Orpheus (1950)
By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean Cocteau
Starring: François Périer | Henri Crémieux | Jean Marais | Juliette Gréco | María Casares | Marie Déa | Roger Blin
Michael says: “Based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, ORPHEUS was the sixth of only eight narrative films that Jean Cocteau directed, the most famous of which, of course, is BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Cocteau’s ORPHEUS revolves around
Read the review...Citizen Kane (1941)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Agnes Moorehead | Dorothy Comingore | Erskine Sanford | Everett Sloane | Joseph Cotten | Orson Welles | Paul Stewart | Ray Collins | Ruth Warrick
Michael says: “I have seen CITIZEN KANE before… about twenty years ago, so when it came up again in the Brattle podcast, about how it’s such a classic, in fact, probably THE classic film, and I couldn’t really remember much
Read the review...Labyrinth (1986)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jim Henson
Starring: David Bowie | Frank Oz | Jennifer Connelly | Shari Weiser | Shelley Thompson | Toby Froud
Michael says: “I have a dirty little secret… I’m not a fan of the muppets. I know, it’s sacrilege, but I enjoyed Sesame St. as a child, but I never really got into the Muppet Show, nor did I enjoy
Read the review...Blow-Up (1966)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: David Hemmings | Gillian Hills | Jane Birkin | John Castle | Peter Bowles | Sarah Miles | Vanessa Redgrave | Veruschka von Lehndorff
Michael says: “Continuing my odyssey to fill some of the gaps in my movie-viewing history, I caught up with Michelangelo Antonioni’s BLOW-UP. Released in 1966, BLOW-UP, while superficially a mystery of sorts, is really a curiously mysterious, visually stunning look at
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