Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Brian DePalma
Starring: Benjamin Sadler | Dominic Raacke | Karoline Herfurth | Noomi Rapace | Paul Anderson | Rachel McAdams | Rainer Bock
Thom says: “It’s been 36 years since director De Palma was in his hey-day as he captured my FILM-OF-THE-YEAR with CARRIE (1976). Since then he’s not been reliable although certainly he’s had such huge successes as SCARFACE and DRESSED TO
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Starring: Gabriel Mwarua | Helen Brugat | Inge Maux | Margarete Teisel | Peter Kazungu
Bruce says: “Ulrich Seidl has stirred up a controversy or two with his films IMPORT/EXPORT and PARADISE: LOVE. To understand the fuss it is important to see the film, at least that is the case for PARADISE: LOVE that begins
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Marcus Markou
Starring: Cosima Shaw | Frank Dillane | Georges Corraface | Georgia Groome | Stephan Dillane | Thomas Underhill
Jason says: “I was recently reminded that my grandmother reads what I write here, which may be why one of my first reactions to PAPADOPOULOS & SONS was that it would be a good movie to bring parents or grandparents
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Darren Paul Fisher
Starring: Charlie Rixon | Daniel Fraser | Dylan Llewellyn | Georgina Minter-Brown | Lily Laight | Owen Pugh
Jason says: “It is not necessarily difficult for an alternate-reality sci-fi film to hook an audience; it just needs a clever premise and the chance to present it in a familiar setting before playing out how strange it makes the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Dunne
Jason says: “Addiction to prescription medication is hardly limited to rural America, but it thrives there. The reasons why communities like Oceana, West Viginia have such a serious problem with painkillers like Oxycontin are far from the first concern of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Terence Nance
Starring: Alisa Becher | Dexter Jones | Jc Cain | Namik Minter | Talibah Lateefah Newman | Terence Nance
Jason says: “AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY began life as a short film, ‘How Would You Feel?’, and goes about building that work up to a feature in an unusual way, not so much expanding it but responding to it.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Timothy Wheeler
Jason says: “Are you a swimmer?’ asked the man at the ticket booth who knew full well I was there because I had a season pass for this film series. I said I wasn’t, and he pointed out that even
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas | Ryan Gosling | Tom Burke | Vithaya Pansringarm | Yayaying Rhatha Phongam
Chris says: “ONLY GOD FORGIVES is similar to DRIVE, only without any redeemable characters, narrative momentum, or moral structure whatsoever. That may sound a little glib, but sadly, it’s not much of an exaggeration. Once again working with director Nicolas
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Elizabeth Mims | Jason Tippet
TC says: “To outsiders, Santa Clarita, California looks like a really great place to live. It is less than an hour from Los Angeles, is ranked as #18 among the Top 100 places to live by Money magazine, and sits
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Alice Braga | Amy Adams | Elisabeth Moss | Garrett Hedlund | Kristen Stewart | Sam Riley | Tom Sturridge
Chris says: “The best one can say about this, the first filmed version of Jack Kerouac’s seminal 1957 novel is that it’s not embarrassing. If that sounds like faint praise, it aptly mirrors the film’s modest ambitions. Rather than transform
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