Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Thom says: “I knew exactly what I was getting and was genuinely amazed from start to finish. Gorgeous to look at like a Jacques Demy fever dream & if you are completely ready to fall sway to a most faithful
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Brett Sullivan | Grant Harvey | Steven Hoban
Starring: George Buza | Percy Hynes-White | Shannon Kook | William Shatner | Zoé de Grand Maison
Jason says: “Planning and constructing A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY must have been a heck of a thing, because despite the indefinite article in the title, it’s actually several stories, each handled by different directors and intercut rather than presented one
Read the review...Chi-Raq (USA; 127 min.) directed by: Spike Leestarring: Teyonah Parris; Nick Cannon; Wesley Snipes; Angela Bassett; Samuel L. Jackson; John Cusack Jason says: “Every once in a while, I’ll be watching a movie, think something clever, and then have the
Read the review...Child 44 (Czech Republic/UK/Romania; 127 min.) directed by: Daniel Espinosastarring: Tom Hardy; Noomi Rapace; Fares Fares; Joel Kinnaman; Gary Oldman; Paddy Considine Jason says: “The name of CHILD 44 and the trailer that emphasizes the serial-killer aspects of the movie
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hao Zhou
Jason says: “Here in Boston, we’ve recently been threatened with hosting the Olympics, and though the recent experience of the Big Dig should really have the whole city threatening to string up whoever first thought this was a good idea,
Read the review...Chappie (USA/Mexico; 120 min.) directed by: Neil Blomkampstarring: Sharlto Copley; Dev Patel; Hugh Jackman; Sigourney Weaver; Ninja; Yo-Landi Visser Thom says: “Nearly all my friends had loved Blomkamp’s earlier South African Sci-fi blast DISTRICT 9 & ELYSIUM wasn’t half-bad, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hyun-seok Kim
Starring: Hee-ae Kim | Hyo-joo Han | Hyun-Sung Jang | Jin Goo | oon-seok Kim | Woo Jung
Jason says: “There is a little bit of Korean text at the start and end of C’EST SI BON left untranslated (at least on the local theater’s DCP) that likely says something along the lines of it being based upon
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Wolfe
Jason says: “CATCH ME DADDY opens with a poem/folk tale about its Yorkshire setting, fitting enough but a bit surprising, as the story is driven by people and traditions that arrived in the UK from elsewhere. On the other hand,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Todd Haynes
Bruce says: “CAROL, based on the autobiographically inspired Sapphic novel, The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith, is terrific. That said, it should be noted that here form triumphs magnificently over content, rarely the case for me. The story is
Read the review...Cash Only (USA/Albania; 91 min.) directed by: Malik Baderstarring: Nickola Shreli ; Maia Noni; Stivi Paskoski; Danijela Stajnfeld Jason says: “There are a lot of actors where following the usual advice to ‘write what you know’ will not get them
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