Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.75
Director: Brian Dannelly
Starring: Allison Janney | Chris Colfer | Christina Hendricks | Dermot Mulroney | Polly Bergen | Sarah Hyland
Bruce says: “The biggest problem with STRUCK BY LIGHTNING is the protagonist. He is not very likable. In the opening frames we learn that Carson Phillips (Chris Colfer of GLEE fame) is the lightning victim. Carson is also the victim
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Sarah Polley
Bruce says: “Sarah Polley first dazzled film lovers with wonderful performances in THE SWEET HEREAFTER, EXOTICA, THE HANGING GARDEN, LAST NIGHT, and MY LIFE WITHOUT ME. Then she turned to directing and dazzled once again with the narrative features AWAY
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: David Alford | Laruen E. Roman | Matthew Goode | Mia Wasikowska | Nicole Kidman | Peg Allen
Jason says: “With any luck, a fair number of the people seeing STOKER will do so without already being fans of director Park Chan-wook, drawn in by the nifty cast and striking previews. They’re in for a treat, because Park
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Jason says: “Toward the end of WE STEAL SECRETS, one of the interview subjects calls back to an early online handle of Julian Assange’s, ‘Mendax’, an abbreviation of ‘noble liar’. That is, however, not the first (possible) online alias of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael McGowan
Starring: Barbara Gordon | Campbell Scott | Geneviève Bujold | George R. Robertson | James Cromwell | Jonathan Potts | Julie Stewart | Rick Roberts
Jason says: “It’s funny what gets to a person during this type of movie. I was doing okay through most of STILL MINE (which played festivals as STILL, and may have kept that name in some places), and then I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ken Scott
Starring: Antoine Bertrand | Dominic Philie | Julie LeBreton | Marc Bélanger | Patrick Huard
Jason says: “No matter how bound and determined a viewer is to just sit back and enjoy STARBUCK for the light comedy that it is, there are going to be moments when he or she can’t help but think it’s
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jehane Noujaim
Jason says: “THE SQUARE doesn’t necessarily look like much as it starts; just some people who happened to have a camera in the right place at the right time. Make no mistake; that is an incredibly useful thing for a
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Harmony Korine
Starring: Ashley Benson | Gucci Mane | Heather Morris | James Franco | Selena Gomez | Vanessa Hudgens
Thom says: “WOW, probably my favorite TIFF 2012 film all the more surprising seeing director Korine’s insane track record, plus his past relationship with film goddess Chloe Sevigny. I loved his first film GUMMO (1997) but was then quite disappointed
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Ponsoldt
Starring: Brie Larson | Dayo Okeniyi | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Kyle Chandler | Miles Teller | Shailene Woodley
Jason says: “It’s hard enough to try to review the first films to play a festival, writing a paragraph at a time between other screenings, but something like THE SPECTACULAR NOW makes it even more difficult. It’s does almost nothing
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Armen Evrensel
Starring: Amanda Tapping | Amy Matysio | Billy Boyd | George Takei | Kristin Kreuk | Robin Dunne
Jason says: “As of this writing, SPACE MILKSHAKE hasn’t actually been purchased by SyFy (or its Canadian equivalent Space) to run as a Saturday night original movie, but that’s what it is: A low-budget sci-fi movie just long enough that
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