Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Albert Birney | Kentucker Audley
Starring: Constance Shulman | Grace Glowicki | Kentucker Audley | Linas Phillips | Penny Fuller | Reed Birney
Chris says: “I knew I adored this film about ten minutes in when the title card appeared (let’s just say it involves an ice cream cone.) It’s quirky for sure, set in a near-future where dreams are taxed by the
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Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Ana de la Reguera | Dave Bautista | Ella Purnell | Garret Dillahunt | Hiroyuki Sanada | Nora Arnezeder | Omari Hardwick | Theo Rossi | Tig Notaro
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Robert Machoian
Starring: Avery Pizzuto | Barbara Whinnery | Chris Coy | Clayne Crawford | Noah Krershisnik | Sepideh Moafi
Bob says: “David and Niki are a married couple in a small rural town in Utah. They got married right after high school, and have a teenaged daughter and three younger sons. Things are not great in the marriage. They’re
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Director: Caroline Link
Starring: Carla Juri | Justus von Dohnányi | Marinus Hohmann | Oliver Masucci | Riva Krymalowski | Ursula Werner
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Robert Connolly
Starring: Bruce Spence | Eric Bana | Genevieve O'Reilly | John Polson | Julia Blake | Keir O'Donnell | William Zappa
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Luke Holland
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Euros Lyn
Starring: Damian Lewis | Joanna Page | Karl Johnson | Nicholas Farrell | Owen Teale | Peter Davison | Siân Phillips | Toni Collette
Chris says: “Based on a true story, this film about a middle-aged Welsh woman (Toni Collette) breeding a prize-winning race horse is thoroughly predictable but considerably engaging fluff. You’ve seen all this before: the protagonist who interrupts her everyday tedium
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Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Alex Angulo | Ariadna Gil | Doug Jones | Ivana Baquero | Manolo Solo | Maribel Verdú | Sergi Lopez
Chris says: “Anyone touched by the moment in THE WIZARD OF OZ when the film shifts from black and white into glorious color knows how effectively movies can express the startling contrast between reality and fantasy. Guillermo del Toro’s film
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Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Brad Pitt | Brooklynn Proulx | Casey Affleck | Dustin Bollinger | Jeremy Renner | Mary-Louise Parker | Sam Rockwell | Sam Shepard
Ivy says: “Casey Affleck has grown up in the shadow of his older brother Ben. And in that time he has built up an exciting filmography of varied supporting roles. With his portrayal of the Coward Robert Ford he steps
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Director: Mark Becker
Gil says: “Unlike other documentaries that address the immigration issue, Mark Becker’s film is unique in that he films his subject, musician Carmelo Muniz Sanchez, in his adopted home of San Francisco and his native home of Salvatierra, Mexico. By
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