Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Eric Schaffer
Starring: Elvis Nolasco | Naté Bova | Rami Malek | Stephen Tyrone Williams | Zaraah Abrahams
Kyle says: “When did movies with transgender leading characters become so mainstream as to skirt conventional narrative sentimentality? The aptly titled BOY MEETS GIRL is a delicately detailed, beautifully told story that manages to be both engaging and questioning about
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matt O'Mahoney
Jason says: “If BLOODY KNUCKLES filmmaker Matt O’Mahoney knows one thing, it’s that measured calls for free speech are kind of missing the point. You can’t just say that offensive media has value, you have to demonstrate it, so it’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Anucha Boonyawatana
Jason says: “When making a film meant to be eerie and still, greatness is almost the baseline requirement for the cinematography. Fortunately, Thailand seems to be unusually well stocked with both great shooters and things for them to point a
Read the review...Blood of My Blood (Italy/France/Switzerland; 106 min.) directed by: Marco Bellocchiostarring: Roberto Herlitzka; Pier Giorgio Bellocchio; Alba Rohrwacher; Lidiya Liberman; Federica Fracassi Bruce says: “My patience runs thin with self-indulgent films that appear to be the result of adolescent fantasies
Read the review...Black Sea (UK/USA/Russia; 114 min.) directed by: Kevin MacDonaldcast: Jude Law; Scoot McNairy; Ben Mendelsohn; Sergey Veksler; David Threlfall; Sergey Puskepalis; Grigoriy Dobrygin Jason says: “The basic ingredients of BLACK SEA don’t appeal to everyone, but it’s got claustrophobic subs,
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Rob Fitz
Starring: Chris Devecchio | Gene Silvers | Rachel Kerbs | Rick Montgomery Jr
Jason says: “Sometimes it’s hard to give a movie a fair shake, no matter how much it may deserve one. I saw a flat-out great movie with a similar idea just a couple weeks before seeing BLESSID so I wanted
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Chad Archibald
Starring: Annette Wozniak | Barry Birnberg | Denise Yuen | Elma Begovic | Jordan Gray | Lawrene Denkers
Jason says: “BITE is the sort of horror movie that puts just enough effort into its characters and story that it initially seems like there might be something to it beyond the gross-outs. It’s not quite up to that level
Read the review...Big Match (South Korea; 112 min.) directed by: Choi Hostarring: Lee Jung-jae; Lee Sung-min; Sin Ha-kyun; BoA; Kim Eui-sung; Park Doo-Dik; Ra Mi-ran; Choi Woo-sik Jason says: “BIG MATCH is really a mess, the sort of movie which starts from
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jalmari Helander
Jason says: “Kids used to ride bikes to the theater to see movies like BIG GAME; as opposed to dialing up a video-on-demand service, and, man, that’s just an indication that most of them wouldn’t be able to handle what
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Baek Jong-yeol
Jason says: “I remember hearing about ‘The Beauty Inside’, a short Web series produced by various tech companies with some sort of social or interactive content attached, but forgot about it almost immediately. Apparently it made more of an impression
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