Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Shahram Mokri
Kyle says: “FISH & CAT is writer/director Shahram Mokri’s second feature film. Ostensibly a horror film involving an out-of-the-way restaurant in Iran closed for serving ‘non-animal meat’ also known as a cannibal establishment, the proprietors cross paths with a group
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Michael Smiley | Peter Ferdinando | Reece Shearsmith | Richard Glover | Ryan Pope
Jason says: “Having an annual pass to the Brattle Theater means that it’s no big deal to come back the next night when the attempt to see three movies after a full day in the office means that something gets
Read the review...Faults (USA; 89 min.) directed by: Riley Stearns starring: eland Orser; Mary Elizabeth Winstead; Chris Ellis; Beth Grant; Lance Reddick; Jon Gries Jason says: “FAULTS feels like it should be something along the lines of THE LAST EXORCISM, not so
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lee Jae-kyu
Starring: Cho Jung-seok | Han Ji-min | Hyun-bin | Jung Jae-young | Park Sung-woong | Song Young-chang
Jason says: “Palace intrigue stories, no matter what the culture, tend to develop over time, playing out in subtle ways requiring either inner monologues or exposition that doesn’t necessarily fit well into a movie. There are good ones, but it’s
Read the review...Fat Shaker (Iran; 85 min.) directed by: Mohammed Shirvanistarring: Levon Haftvan; Navid Mohammadzadeh; Maryam Palizban Bruce says: “FAT SHAKER is a film that will have you scratching your head both during and after the screening. Trying to make sense of
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Homi Adajania
Starring: Arjun Kapoor | Deepika Padukone | Dimple Kapadia | Naseeruddin Shah | Pankaj Kapur
Jason says: “After a year or so of going to the Indian movies at the local multiplex, one gets a certain idea of what to expect, generally a musical masala picture that’s odd by conventional Hollywood standards. Sometimes, though, you
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Amanda Ryan | Brendan Muldooney | Emma Eliza Regan | Pollyanna Mackintosh | Robert de Hoog | Tom Leick
Jason says: “I didn’t quite avoid LOVE ETERNAL when it played at another festival last year, but I certainly didn’t have much trouble choosing what was on the other screen whenever the Irish death-fetish film was playing. I’m not saying
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Isabella Rossellini | Jake Gyllenhaal | Mélanie Laurent | Sarah Gadon
Diane says: “Alas, waste of time! Jake Gyllenhaal meets his doppelganger, but I didn’t find the two very different, despite one Jake wearing a tweed jacket and the other, leather. ENEMY opens with the tweedie already tired and depressed. Unfortunately,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Benjamin Renner | Stéphane Aubier | Vincent Patar
Starring: Anne-Marie Loop | Brigitte Virtudes | Lambert Wilson | Patrice Melennec | Pauline Brunner
Jason says: “You can’t decide a whole lot about the quality of one movie from the others it references, but it still has to be considered a pretty good sign when that a poster for A TOWN CALLED PANIC hangs
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chiemi Karasawa
Bruce says: “Elaine Stritch has always maintained a ‘take no prisoners’attitude throughout her career so it is no surprise that she agreed to make this documentary with a caveat: ‘I don’t want this to be a fluff piece. It’s got
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