Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fanny Sadiney | Stephen Belber
Michael says: “I just enjoyed an odd little movie called MATCH written and directed by Stephen Belber (who wrote Richard Linklater’s TAPE). It stars Patrick Stewart, as a famed ballet dancer and choreographer, who now lives a solitary existence teaching
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ridley Scott
Thom says: “This entertaining sci-fi thriller reminded me a bit of 2013 multi-Oscar box office boffo returns GRAVITY, which was an original screen play. THE MARTIAN was adapted from Andy Weir’s bestselling novel. While this newish, Oscar-nominated film made less
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Alain Darborg
Jason says: “More of this, please. “I’ve got no idea whether this reboot of Sweden’s JÖNSSONLIGAN franchise was popular enough to spawn sequels, but I want it to be. It’s a neat, tight little caper movie that introduces its characters
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Alberto Rodriguez
Jason says: “While, to a certain extent, murder is murder, a story that could be easily set in any era becomes much more fascinating when placed in a specific time, and not just because cell phones, GPS, and security cameras
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Larry Clark
Kyle says: “Maverick writer/director Larry Clark received an award from the Rome Film Festival in 2012 for MARFA GIRL, which has since made sporadic appearances at various international film festivals, before finally making its DVD and Netflix debuts in the
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Jason says: “Hollywood stories can be self-indulgent or snide, depending on what sort of axes the people making them have to grind, rarely managing to hit the sweet spot in the middle. What they seldom are, though, is extraneous, but
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: David Gordon Green
Jason says: “David Gordon Green seems to make movies in spurts-first some noteworthy independent dramas, then some crude studio comedies. Now, a year after doing JOE and reminding audiences that, yeah, Nicholas Cage can act a little when he decides
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pedro Pablo Ibarra
Jason says: “There are a lot of romantic comedies that start from from premises as ludicrous as that of A LA MALA, but few of them do as well in selling that starting point. It’s a goofy little thing, but
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Dave Boyle
Jason says: “There’s a moment at the end of a lot of the really good ‘Coen-like’ movies (a description unfair to everyone involved, but one people use) where someone sits down, has a long sigh, and considers just what all
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Henry Hobson
Jason says: “Show me MAGGIE at a genre film festival with a cast of unknowns, and I likely react with unreserved excitement. That is, after all, the natural life-cycle and scale of movies such which play with genre conventions the
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