Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Tom Hooper
Jason says: “There was talk fairly close to its release about THE DANISH GIRL being nearly three hours long, although that turned out to be a working print and the actual finished film is a more standard two. With the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Spike Lee
Kyle says: “I respectfully disagree with Spike Lee, who claims DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS is not a vampire movie. It may lack traditional traits such as fangs and claws, snarling and biting, garlic and mirrors, but Dr. Green subsists
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Miguel Llansó
Jason says: “Science fiction films about a man on a quest in a post-collapse wasteland are so far from uncommon that entries in the subgenre need something truly special in order to stand out from a low-budget haze of deserts,
Read the review...Cymbeline (USA; 98 min.) directed by: Michael Almereydastarring: Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Penn Badgley, Dakota Johnson Kyle says: “This is a contemporary film adaptation of a play by William Shakespeare. Such versions are plentiful and often
Read the review...Cruel (France; 108 min.) directed by: Eric Cherrièrestarring: Jean-Jacques Lelté; Magali Moreau; Maurice Poli; Yves Afonso Jason says: “The almost-banal serial killer isn’t quite a staple of crime fiction but it’s not exactly uncommon, either, likely in part because the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Park Hye-mi
Jason says: “Two animated features from the Korean Academy of Film Arts played the festival this year, and there’s enough underlying similarities to make a viewer joke about them coming from the same class assignment or, more seriously, ponder how
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jon Watts
Jason says: “COP CAR opens by dropping enough swearwords that even parents who missed the R rating might consider pulling their kids out, which is both necessary and a bit of a pity. A family-friendly take on the story could
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Cary Murnion | Jonathan Milott
Jason says: “Allison Pill is carving out a weird niche in terms of sweet elementary school teachers who turn oddly violent between this and SNOWPIERCER, isn’t she? Granted, she’s entirely justified here, as anybody in this movie describing kids as
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Zhang Yimou
Bruce says: “The opening scene of COMING HOME sets the tone. Pre-teen ballerinas are rehearsing – on point, pirouetting, and then crashing their rifles to the floor in unison. One of them is Dandan (Zhang Huiwen) who is suddenly called
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mike Scholotz
Jason says: “The comedic documentary is not exactly rare, but it is generally reserved for people famous for being funny – after all, if something is funny, it is seldom considered important enough for a film that gets any sort
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