Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Jiang Liu
Jason says: “LET’S GET MARRIED is the third Chinese film based upon a popular television series in roughly as many months to get a simultaneous American release, although I can attest that no prior experience is necessary to enjoy it.
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Jason says: “The late Roger Ebert would use the phrase ‘dead teenager movie’ dismissively, probably with the intention of getting horror fans riled up half the time. And while it’s not great form to glibly dismiss an entire genre, sometimes
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Brian Helgeland
Jason says: “One of my favorite ways to mess around during awards season and make the point that determining the winners is not nearly so important as shining a light on noteworthy achievements is finding a way to suggest nominating
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Alec Su
Jason says: “Even after reading a description of this movie that I thought might give too much away and seeing the dedication at the start, I spent a good chunk of THE LEFT EAR thinking it was going to be
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Isabel Coixet
Chris says: “New York literary critic Wendy (Patricia Clarkson) breaks up with her longtime husband in the back of a cab after he confesses to cheating on her. Storming out of the car and into her apartment, she accidentally leaves
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richard Lagravenese
Bruce says: “Jason Robert Brown is on a roll. His ‘Bridges of Madison County’ debuted at Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2013 before going to Broadway in the spring of 2014. Honeymoon in Vegas debuted at the Paper Mill Playhouse in
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Luo Luo
Jason says: “I am tempted, half as a joke and half dead serious, to write this review as six paragraphs of ‘Shu Qi is extremely pretty’, maybe with a different adjective or adverb swapped in every once in a while
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Bruce says: “In 1970 playwright Alan Bennett moved into a small house in Camden Town, a then up-and-coming artsy neighborhood. Shortly thereafter Bennett noticed there was a van parked down the street and a feisty old woman seemed to be
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
Jason says: “The latest from the director of LINDA LINDA LINDA is another charmer about someone finding friends and himself (this time) through music, although its appeal won’t be limited to the too-small audiences who have seen the former. It’s
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Teddy Chan
Kyle says: “KUNG FU JUNGLE will appeal to fans of the great Hong Kong martial artist and movie star Donnie Yen (He also appropriately receives main title billing as ‘Action Director’.), but also to fans of director Teddy Chan, since
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