Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Barber
Jason says: “THE KEEPING ROOM is a nicely-built little thriller that takes place during the American Civil War and which uses the details of that period so well in moving the action forward that some might miss what makes it
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andy Wachowski | Lana Wachowski
Thom says: “The most noted element of seeing this film is that now I can start my 2015 Film List as it was my first 2015 film. The Wachowski siblings (brother & now sister) are revered by quite a few
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Janet Chun Siu-jan
Jason says: “China seems to be producing a lot of movies like A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME WITH ANTHONY (slightly less unwieldy than the film’s Mandarin title, PEI AN DONG NI DU GUO MAN CHANG SUI YUE) lately, plucked from the
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: David O. Russell
Diane says: “Saw this one despite poor reviews. With Jennifer Lawrence in the lead, it can’t be all bad, right? Wrong! One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Lack of momentum in the story, dull characters, flat tone. Scenes
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Sanjay Gupta
Jason says: “I don’t know a lot about Bollywood, but there are a few names I recognize. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, top star often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful women and returning from a long maternity break; Irrfan
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lisandro Alonso
Jason says: “JAUJA opens with an explanation of the title, a mythological land that was always somewhere over the horizon in Patagonia, although these things are always exaggerated. That’s probably the right ‘it’s not really totally real’ attitude to have
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Albert Maysles
Julie says: “For any child of a mother who was a collector of art, and art from other countries, jewelry and clothing this is a must see! For anyone else who enjoys collecting, design, art, clothing and / or good
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Brett says: “In horror, in action/adventure, and in thrillers, the keystone premise of an external conflict that threatens protagonist(s) to an hyperbolic degree is one that has been recycled and reinvented many times in many different ways and always with
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Emayatzy Corinealdi | Lindsay Burdge | Logan Marshall-Green | Michiel Huisman | Tammy Blanchard
Jason says: “That I was asking myself when the stabbing was going to start fairly early on in THE INVITATION implies bad things, either about my character or the filmmakers’ performance in terms of telling a story that, in fact,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Trevor Iuras
Jason says: “THE INTERIOR seemingly starts as an one thing and stays that way for roughly the first third, when the title comes up, the scene shifts, and the main character re-appears with a new look and direction, as if
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