Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Bruce says: “My first note for FROM AFAR reads ‘out of focus.’ Little did I know when I wrote it how important focus would be in describing the psychological nature of the protagonist, Armando, played by Alfredo Costa (NO, TONY
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Derek Kwok Chi-kin | Henri Wong Chi-hang
Jason says: “There are plenty of silly things in FULL STRIKE- it is, in fact, ridiculous more or less non-stop – but the filmmakers never really portray badminton as a sport that is, itself, laughable. They could have, and that
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Robbie Pickering
Jason says: “FREAKS OF NATURE was originally called ‘The Kitchen Sink’ – some websites are listing its show times under that title – and neither name is great. ‘Freaks’ is generic and not really what the movie is about; ‘Sink’
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: He Jiong
Jason says: “The plot of FOREVER YOUNG could come straight out of a silly sitcom meant for young adults, although I suspect that this hypothetical Chinese ‘Saved by the Bell: The College Years’ would probably go to far less drastic
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Evan Johnson | Guy Maddin
Jason says: “Given that THE FORBIDDEN ROOM wasn’t even really supposed to be a movie, you have to say it turned out pretty well. Conceived as a two-part multimedia project – the first half live ‘seances’ where Guy Maddin and
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Rating: 0.5 cats
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Thom says: “For years I’d been reading about the huge best-selling trilogy that topped the sales charts for months on end. Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed were rooted in my consciousness but since I have
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Jason says: “You can tell from the title that this movie is going to be playing on horror movie tropes – the ‘final girl’ being the last survivor of a massacre who takes down the killer – but that’s often
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Mari Asato
Jason says: “The festival program indicates that this film and the game FATAL FRAME were based upon the same book, although the credits indicate that the book was based upon the game before being adapted into this film, but those
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Christian Braad Thomsen
Thom says: “I received 2 free tickets to features at the current LGBT Film Festival so I was thrilled to attend. This film was decidedly difficult to rate because of my obvious subjectivity. Fassbinder is my favorite director for my
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elizabeth Lucas
Jason says: “FADE TO WHITE alternates between three science fiction stories taking place in and around New York City’s Central Park over the course of 112 years, and while they are in some ways a bit of a mixed bag
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