Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 0 cats
Director: Claudio Fragasso
Starring: Connie Young | George Hardy | Margo Prey | Michael Paul Stephenson
Scot says: “While I can’t say that TROLL 2 is the worst film I’ve ever seen (see PLANET 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, LET ME DIE A WOMAN, and INDEPENDENCE DAY), I could be convinced that it is the worst film
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard | Jamie Bell | Richard Madden | Taron Egerton
Thom says: “This is a tough film for me to review because although I’ve been a great lover of music throughout my life I never liked Elton John. Over the years he only had a minuscule number of songs I
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Eliza Scanlen | Emma Watson | Florence Pugh | Laura Dern | Saiorse Ronan
Thom says: “LITTLE WOMEN has been somewhat of a Hollywood staple over the years with adaptations of the Louisa May Alcott classic coming out in 1918, 1933, 1949, 1994, & 2018, not to mention the innumerable television versions. I’ve seen
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Cary Grant | Doris Nolan | Edward Everett Horton | Katherine Hepburn | Lew Ayers
Thom says: “Maybe it was my effusive mood but this pure professional comedy romance entranced me. While not a gigantic fan of neither Cary Grant nor Katherine Hepburn they click together with such an authentic force (BRINGING UP BABY, THE
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Ansel Elgort | Jeffrey Wright | Nicole Kidman | Oakes Fegley
Thom says: “This film was adapted from the gigantic best-seller of the same name by Donna Tartt. When my brother Chuk and I had taken our previous cat Mandy in for a check-up I remember the lady veterinarian and Chuk
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Beyoncé | Donald Glover | Seth Rogen
Thom says: “To be perfectly honest, I knew there was no way I was going to like this film. I had already suffered through the 1994 animation smash hit and hearing about its enormous success as a Broadway legend under
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Irving Rapper
Starring: Bette Davis | Emlyn Williams | Gary Merrill
Thom says: ” When some 20 years ago I started a must-see list for actors, the first actor I added to the list was Bette Davis, and upon doing so I realized that there were actually dozens of her films
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt | Leonardo DiCaprio | Margot Robbie
Thom says: “I’m the first to admit it, I just am not a fan of Quentin Tara ntino (the only film of his I’ve really liked [&, yes, I’ve seen all of them] was THE HATEFUL EIGHT). But this shoddy
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michael Engler
Starring: Imelda Staunton | Lesley Nicol | Maggie Smith | Michael Fox | Michelle Dockery | Stephen Campbell Moore
Thom says: “This is an absurdly easy film to review because it’s nearly impossible to believe that anyone who loved the mega-successful television series from 2010 wouldn’t also praise this highly entertaining affair. Director Engler has done only one other
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Director: Hiroshi Hamazaki | Kôjirô Tsuruoka | Nanako Shimazaki | Satoshi Kon | Takayuki Hirao | Takuji Endo
Starring: Liam O'Brien | Mamiko Noto | Michael McConnohie | Shôzô Îzuka | Toshihiko Seki
Tom G. says: “I promise, promise, that I won’t review anime series often, if ever again. However, I thought this may be of interest of those of you who enjoyed Satoshi Kon’s other works Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress and/or Tokyo
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