Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Tony Chan
Jason says: “Do you ever feel frustrated watching a movie and think, come on, this shouldn’t be so hard – you’ve got a couple attractive young stars, a decent hook, and ninety minutes to play it out; how hard can
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Raul Garcia
Jason says: “Raul Garcia has been making the various pieces of EXTRAORDINARY TALES for a while; three of its five segments, all based upon Edgar Allan Poe stories, are listed on the IMDb as shorts released as far back as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ángel Vivas
Jason says: “EXTINCTION starts off problematically, with a prologue that involves three people doing what seems like the same dumb thing in a row, leading to nearly everybody getting killed by zombies. It’s the sort of thing that has the
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Almereyda
Jason says: “I really hope that this one opens fairly wide, because I’d like to give it a second look. I came out of it with an odd sort of ambivalence, liking almost all of what it did but feeling
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Tian Yu-Sheng
Jason says: “As far as I can tell, the first ‘Qian Ren’ (‘Ex Files’) didn’t have any sort of official release in North America when it came out last year, but that probably doesn’t much matter – though I would
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Patrick Kennelly
Jason says: “Perhaps surprisingly for an underground film festival, a lot of people coming into this show were using the phrase used to describe it in the program – ‘body horror’ – like it was two words that they had
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Thom says: “If I hadn’t gotten a chance to see this gratis I might have passed as the director has a rather poor track record with me. 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST (2006) (3 CATS) & POLICE, ADJECTIVE (2009) (2 CATS).
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alex Garland
Kyle says: “When a robot referred to clinically as the A.I., or Ava (Alicia Vikander), tells Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) that her maker Nathan (Oscar Isaac) is ‘not your friend’ during a power outage, we expect him to pay close attention,
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Rick Alverson
Jason says: “When people describe independent films as pretentious crap and those who like them as pretentious jerks, they’re often referring to things like ENTERTAINMENT, and I can’t exactly blame them. Even when I don’t enjoy a movie, I try
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: James Ponsoldt
Starring: Anna Chlumsky | Jason Segel | Jesse Eisenberg | Joan Cusack | Mamie Gummer
Jason says: “There are a lot of things that can be done with David Lipsky’s interview of David Foster Wallace, and I don’t think that a movie is at the top of the list. The magazine article it was originally
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