Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Justin Simien
Starring: Brittany Curran | Dennis Haysbert | Kyle Gallner | Tessa Thompson | Tyler James Williams
Kyle says: “’Dear White People: The amount of black friends required not to seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone doesn’t count!’ Thus Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) begins her Winchester University campus radio show
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Adan Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Brontis Jodorowsky | Jeremias Herskovits | Pamela Flores
Jason says: “I wouldn’t necessarily expect Alejandro Jodorowsky to be particularly prone to nostalgia; the director, writer, and ‘psychomagician’ has, throughout his career, favored the grandly imaginative and metaphysical to the mundane to an extent that few in any medium
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Andy Serkis | Gary Oldman | Jason Clarke | Judy Greer | Keri Russell | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Toby Kebbell
Thom says: “Yes, I’ve seen them all: PLANET OF THE APES (1968, 4 CATS), BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970, 4 CATS), ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1971, 4.5 CATS), CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jonas Govaerts
Starring: Evelien Bosmans | Maurice Luijten | Sef Aerts | Titus De Voogdt
Brett says: “CUB is a film loaded with potential for a horror film, taking its premise from the campfire stories that are commonplace among scouts crowded around the camp fire in the woods on a weekend retreat. This premise is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jerzy Rose
Starring: Adam Paul | Adebukola Bodunrin | Lyra Hill | Mike Lopez | Ted Temper
Jason says: “Even by black comedy standards, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY is kind of on the mean side. That’s no knock; mean can work, especially in a movie like this that is more about tying jokes together than building to one
Read the review...The Creeping Garden (USK; 81 min.) directed by: Tim Graham & Jasper Sharpdocumentary Jason says: “I take a certain amount of pride in seeing/reviewing movies like this at festivals, and I half think it’s why some issue me press passes
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ari Folman
Starring: Danny Huston | Harvey Keitel | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Michael Stahl-David | Robin Wright | Sami Gayle
TC says: “Loosely adapted from the Stanislaw Lem novel (who would probably say ‘VERY loosely’), this film is almost impossible to review, because as a film writer and fan, the thought of the stuff going on in this film is
Read the review...Creep (USA; 82 min.) directed by: Patrick Bricestarring: Patrick Brice; Mark Duplas Jason says: “My only issues with CREEP have nothing whatsoever to do with the movie itself. First, there’s the generic title – it’s only been ten years since
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tze Chun
Starring: Alice Eve | Bryan Cranston | Erin Cummings | Logan Marshall-Green | Robin Taylor | Ursula Parker
Jason says: “There are a number of paths to directing major motion pictures, and I suspect that the one Tze Chun is on is fairly common: Do some shorts, make a truly independent film that’s close to your heart for
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jan Ole Gerster
Starring: Andreas Schröders | Justus von Dohnányi | Katharina Hauck | Katharina Schüttler | Tom Schilling
Bruce says: “Some films resonate so profoundly with me that I can feel myself embodied in one of the characters. For me, Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) is one of those characters. Niko transports me back to my twenties. Each move,
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