Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Madsen
Jason says: “THE VISIT is apparently meant to be the second in a thematic trilogy of documentaries by Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen, and I’m curious what grand-scaled idea will round them out. I hope it’s something a little more like
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Starring: André Hennicke | Burak Yigit | Franz Rogowski | Frederick Lau | Laia Costa | Max Mauff
Jason says: “In certain hands, VICTORIA might just have been an impressive achievement in logistics for hitting an ambitious set of marks as a single-shot, real-time thriller. It winds up being a fair bit better than that, even if there
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
Starring: David Clayton Rogers | Lucy Griffiths | Mark Webber | Rainn Wilson
Jason says: “UNCANNY jokes about the Turing Test casually enough to make even longtime science fiction fans marvel a bit at how the phrase has started to enter the general lexicon in the last few years. The go-to reference for
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Musa Syeed
Starring: Gulzar Ahmed Bhat | Mohammed Afza | Neelofar Hamid
Kyle says: “Although VALLEY OF SAINTS made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival three years ago, it is only now in 2015 receiving a general release. That it was shot during the 2010 Kashmir rebellion against India,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ryan Miyamoto | Samantha Futerman
Jason says: “I’ve noted before that young actresses often have to write something for themselves if they want a good part, but what about when you discover that your own life may be that good part. If you’re Samantha
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lee Byeong-heon
Starring: Jung Joo-yeon | Jung So0min | Kang Ha-neul | Lee Joon-ho | Lee Yoo-bi | Min Hyo-rin
Jason says: “I suspect that TWENTY being successful enough in South Korea to merit a quick try-to-beat-the-pirates release in the United States owes as much to the popularity of its good-looking young cast as anything else; it’s not a particularly
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Anouk Whissell | François Simard | Yoann-Karl Whissell
Starring: Aaron Jeffery | Laurence Leboeuf | Michael Ironside | Munro Chambers
Jason says: “TURBO KID seemed to be on the fast track to being a cult hit well before its release; folks seemed keen on the short film produced as part of a contest connected to ABC’S OF DEATH and it
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Matt Chow | Wilson Yip
Starring: Amber Kuo | Charmaine Sheh | Francis Ng | Julian Cheung | Louis Koo | Oceane Zhu | Sammy Chung
Jason says: “There’s a shiny new Shaw Brothers logo among the vanity cards before TRIUMPH IN THE SKIES, likely because it’s a spinoff of a TV show that ran on Hong Kong’s TVB network, which was also founded by the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Alan Tudyk | Bryan Cranston | Diane Lane | Helen Mirren | John Goodman | Louis C.K. | Michael Stuhlbarg
Jason says: “TRUMBO has what is really a distractingly good cast in more ways than one, especially for those who love movies and as a result have a sharp eye for those involved. Right away, you’ve got to decide whether
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Starring: Grigoriy Fesenko | Rosa Babiy | Yana Novikova
Jason says: “Well, that’s certainly something I’m glad to have seen, although I’m also sort of thankful that I’ll likely never see the like again. The excited parts of that sentence are to be expected from a movie whose opening
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