Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Brett says: “In horror, in action/adventure, and in thrillers, the keystone premise of an external conflict that threatens protagonist(s) to an hyperbolic degree is one that has been recycled and reinvented many times in many different ways and always with
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Emayatzy Corinealdi | Lindsay Burdge | Logan Marshall-Green | Michiel Huisman | Tammy Blanchard
Jason says: “That I was asking myself when the stabbing was going to start fairly early on in THE INVITATION implies bad things, either about my character or the filmmakers’ performance in terms of telling a story that, in fact,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Trevor Iuras
Jason says: “THE INTERIOR seemingly starts as an one thing and stays that way for roughly the first third, when the title comes up, the scene shifts, and the main character re-appears with a new look and direction, as if
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ursula Dabrowsky
Jason says: “Ursula Dabrowsky directs the heck out of INNER DEMON, not just because it keeps going despite having a small cast and what seems like some tight constraints where locations and other resources are concerned, but because she pulls
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brett Haley
Jason says: “Thing to ponder: I can put a note in my phone or computer that says ‘revisit I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS twenty-five years from now’, and it could follow me from device to device over that time,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chad M. Walker | Dave LaMattina
Jason says: “There was another documentary about the man behind one of ‘Sesame Street’s’ most beloved Muppets a couple years back, and even before it certain allegations (most later rescinded) were made, it didn’t really feel like BEING ELMO gave the
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Nathan Ambrosioni
Jason says: “HOSTILE is probably the ultimate example of the dilemma one faces when reviewing the independent/amateur films that play festivals, where on the one hand the critic wants to tell potential viewers that they’ve probably got better options in
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Barry Levinson
Kyle says: “THE HUMBLING has impeccable credentials: It is based upon a 2009 novel by Philip Roth, it is co-scripted by Buck Henry, it is directed by Barry Levinson, and it stars Al Pacino as a once-upon-a-time famous actor who
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Xu Zheng
Jason says: “Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour made seven ROAD TO… movies between 1940 and 1962, though this series was not sequels so much as a chance to make selling the audience similar plots on a regular basis
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Justin Weinstei | Tyler Measom
Jason says: “James ‘The Amazing’ Randi has been best-known his efforts on debunking psychics, faith healers and other frauds for so long that many associate him with that alone. Even remembering that it was his qualifications as a magician that
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