Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tim Burton
Thom says: “Tim Burton has had a fascinating career with a diverse number of top-rated films like PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE, BEETLEJUICE, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, ED WOOD, & CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. And yet his PLANET OF THE APES was the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Starring: Abraham Attah | Anna K. Abebrese | Emmanual Affadzi | Idris Elba | Kobina Amissah-Weddey
Jason says: “Horror is assumed going into a film like BEASTS OF NO NATION; the audience knows about child soldiers and African chaos on a factual level and has perhaps steeled itself for that. Filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga never missteps
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Basel Owies
Kyle says: “THE BARBER is another tiresome entry in the ‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here’ genre, save possibly for those who pursue pointless female degradation for research purposes. This one seems to be about a serial killer who
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jody Lee Lipes
Kyle says: “The title BALLET 422 references its creation as the 422nd new ballet for New York City Ballet, that number seeming to overwhelm choreographer Justin Peck’s youth, experience, and amount of time allotted to create said ballet. The brilliance
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andres Torres
Jason says: “There are times when it almost seems as if BAG BOY LOVER BOY is making an argument against its own existence – that weird and difficult art is dangerous in the wrong hands, and not just in the
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Benjamin Gilani | Deepika Padukone | Irrfan Khan | Priyanka Chopra | Ranveer Singh | Tanvi Azmi
Jason says: “I guess it’s an improvement that somewhere during the second half of BAJIRAO MASTANI I backed off thinking of it as being a historical romance where nearly everybody is a terrible person, instead considering it one where people
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