Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: David Cross
Kyle says: “Two thirds of the running time of HITS has passed when Katelyn (Meredith Hagner) declares, ‘This is insanity!’ and leaves home with her father’s shotgun. HITS is a comedy about cultural chaos, its title having dozens of different
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anthony Burns
Kyle says: “HOME SWEET HELL is a mildly diverting dark comedy about marriage, murder and mayhem. Mona and Don Champagne (Katherine Heigl and Patrick Wilson) is seemingly the perfect modern married couple on paper. That turns out to be only
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ricky Kennedy
Jason says: “Mock documentaries are inherently gimmick movies; it is a rare one that does not crash hard up against the form’s limitations, and when that happens, it doesn’t matter whether the disappointment comes from the filmmaker having to cheat
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lee Suk-hoon
Jason says: “The biggest problem with HIMALAYA (titled THE HIMALAYAS for its North American release) is that it comes right on the heels of EVEREST. The latter is not a particularly great movie but had the resources of a major
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Ross Shuman | Tom Gianas
Jason says: “There’s a running gag in HELL AND BACK, arguably the funniest thing in the movie, where a demon voiced by John Farley subjects souls to various mildly annoying situations (stopped escalators, a Pizza Hut/Taco Bell that has no
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kim Seong-hun
Jason says: “’Chekhov’s _____’ is an extremely easy joke to make when watching and reviewing thrillers and the like, and like most trope-related comments, folks often say that in terms of ‘don’t do this’ as opposed to ‘make sure you
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Aleksey German
Jason says: “HARD TO BE A GOD may deserve your ten bucks just for the sheer level of will and effort it took to get made, with decades of working on the script, six years of filming, and another seven
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Daniel Garcia | Rania Attieh
Jason says: “Movies like H., with its deliberately un-evocative title, unexplained strange events, and ostentatiously non-standard structure, can bring out my least favorite reaction to a movie – the urge to shout that the emperor has no clothes and the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Corin Hardy
Jason says: “By way of exposition, there’s a bit on the radio early on mentioning that an upcoming deal would make Ireland the only developed country without a national forest, and that just sounds like a bad idea: Anyone who
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Pierre Morel
Kyle says: “The most interesting feature of the indispensable Internet Movie Database has become ‘Plot Keywords’, a virtual ‘CliffsNotes’ of movie plots so spot on that in most cases, you can read the list and skip the movie. Which increasingly
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