Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Mina Mileva | Vesela Kazakova
Starring: Angel Genov | Chinwe Nwokolo | Gilda Waugh | Irina Atanasova | Jon-Jo Inkpen | Kadisha Gee Kamara | Orlin Asenov
Bob says: “A look at immigrant life in a gentrifying area of London, with Brexit hanging over everything. A Bulgarian woman, her brother (both well educated) and her son are eking out a life in a former council flat in Peckham.
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Thor Freudenthal
Starring: Andy Garcia | Beth Grant | Charlie Plummer | Molly Parker | Taylor Russell | Walton Goggins
Michael says: “Structurally, there’s nothing really all that noteworthy about WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS, a high school rom-com that hits all the right beats and plays out in a fairly expected manner. What makes WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS notable, and
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Al Ernest Garcia | Charlie Chaplin | George Davis | Harry Crocker | Merna Kennedy | Tiny Sandford
Thom says: “I’m happy to see an intellectual shift in my comic essence. For whatever reason I never was much of a Chaplin fan for the majority of my life although in the past 5 years I quite liked LIMELIGHT
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Silas Howard
Starring: Amy Landecker | Ann Dowd | Claire Danes | Jim Parsons | Lee Aaron Rosen | Leo James Davis | Octavia Spencer | Priyanka Chopra
Thom says: “The extremely sensitive subject of transgender children is treated here with some understanding and compassion. Enough so that some insensitive bastard criticizing on Ratings and Reviews for New Movies and TV Shows – IMDb wrote that the educators
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tara Miele
Starring: Aimee Carrero | Beth Grant | Diego Luna | Sienna Miller | Tory Kittles
Diane says: “I think I must be the target audience for WANDER DARKLY. I was completely sucked into every emotion in this chameleonic romance/psychological thriller that has touches of horror and dry humor. The two attractive leads don’t hurt. “LA couple
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dong-hoon Baek
Starring: Hyeon-ho Heo | Ja-Hyeon Chu | Jin Goo | Jin-Ki Baek | Kook-jin Han
Jason says: “Looking at the cast list for LE GRAND CHEF 2: KIMCHI BATTLE should raise some alarms; the main couple from the first film has been recast and a completely new character has first billing. Given that the plot
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Oliver Laxe
Starring: Amador Arias | Benedicta Sánchez | David de Poso | Elena Mar Fernández | Inazio Abrao
Diane says: “A convicted pyromaniac returns home after prison time. Home is his elderly mother’s simple cottage in rural and remote Galicia, in northwest Spain. We know from the title that fire will come again. But don’t expect a thriller or
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sunao Katabuchi
Starring: Chisa Bandai | J. David Brimmer | Masao Agawa | Romy Beckman
Jason says: “MAI MAI MIRACLE is charming. It’s a nostalgic memoir about growing up as free-range kids, but we can use all the good ones we can get before we run out of people who grew up that way. Nicely
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Adolphe Menjou | Barbara Stanwyck | Charlotte Henry | Dorothy Peterson | Ralph Bellamy | Thomas Jefferson
Thom says: “Here’s an early film from Hollywood legendary director Frank Capra (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, LOST HORIZON, YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, MEET JOHN DOE, ARSENIC & OLD
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Chad Hartigan
Starring: David Lennon | Jack O'Connell | Olivia Cooke | Raúl Castillo | Soko
Michael says: “Another film that started off strong, with a great premise, that really crashed and burned for me, and as time has passed, I’ve been trying to decide why this film ultimately failed for me, and I can’t quite
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