Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Bruce says: “A prerequisite to seeing this film is knowledge of Tsai Ming-laing’s films and his muse and leading man in all of his films, Lee Kang-sheng. The two men are lovers, spiritually and emotionally. They work together and live
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jordan Rubin
Starring: Chad Anderson | Cortney Palm | Hutch Dano | Jake Weary | Lexi Atkins | Peter Gilroy | Rachel Melvin
Jason says: “ZOMBEAVERS gives the audience what they want from a movie with that title, pretty much the way they want it, and that way involves puppets. Puppets and blood. “Director Jordan Rubin and co-writers Al & Jon Kaplan are
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Peter Pau | Tianyu Zhao
Starring: Bao Bei-er | Chen Kun | Li Bing bing | Summer Jike Juanyi | Winston Chao | Yang Zi-shan
Jason says: “Maybe the best way to describe ZHONG KUI: SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL (to give it the full name that appears on-screen) is to imagine if Ray Harryhausen had been born in China, making the sort of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Starring: Harvey Keitel | Jane Fonda | Michael Caine | Paul Dano | Rachel Weisz | Robert Seethaler
Kyle says: “My notes on Paolo Sorrentino’s atrocious YOUTH include pages of terrible lines, and scenes so grandiose, stuffed with so much visual information and shots held to the point of masturbatory self-indulgence (the sort of garbage that has people
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Denny Tedesco
Jason says: “THE WRECKING CREW has had a long time on the path to release – it played the festival circuit back in 2008, but it started shooting in 1996, meaning that it took director Denny Tedesco nearly two decades
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Rating: 3 cats | 4.25 cats
Director: Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring: Catherine Terracini | Jay Gallagher | Keith Agius | Leon Burchill | Meganne West
Jason says: “It’s no bad thing, I say, that WYRMWOOD feels like a season’s worth of an eventful TV series packed into an hour and a half; it’s an exhausting ride at times, but there’s not ten or fifteen minutes
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: David Burris
Starring: Adelaide Clemens | Haley Joel Osment | Jeremy Irvine | Minka Kelly | Noah Wyle | Steve Earle
Kyle says: “‘Violence begets violence,’ says Leonard, the character portrayed by Noah Wylie, whom we know is sensitive because he listens to Aaron Copland’s ‘Appalachian Spring’ but nonetheless picks up his rifle whenever the dog barks or the sound of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Daigo Matsui
Starring: Ai Hashimoto | Jun Aonami | Marie Machida | Yu Inaba
Jason says: “As soon as I saw this one, I figured that it may need some mulling over, although more for its downright peculiar ending than the occasional sense that as someone who is not a teenage Japanese girl, this
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fernando Coimbra
Starring: Antonio Saboia | Fabiula Nascimento | Isabelle Ribas | Leandra Leal | Milhem Cortez
Kyle says: “Although the title A WOLF AT THE DOOR is metaphorical, a number of candidates can be considered for the titular character in this intriguing Brazilian domestic melodrama, the first full-length feature film by writer/director Fernando Coimbra. A 6-year-old
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Crystal Moselle
Jason says: “I suspect that film fans are going to talk THE WOLFPACK up more than it truly merits; the only thing we like more than an amazing story is meeting folks who love movies as much as we do,
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