Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Kareem Gray
Starring: Heather Okun | Jay Pricard | Jeff Hoferer | Joe Thackery | Jordan Spradley | Monica Peña | Tom Young
Jason says: “Nerds are, like most of the rest of humanity, kind of hypocrites. This movie’s main character probably tells anybody who ask him for computer advice not to open attachments from an unknown source, but you know what happens
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Oh Young-doo
Starring: Bae Yong-geun | Choi Song-hyeon | Ha Eun-jeong | Hong Young-geun
Jason says: “I must admit that I wasn’t a fan of Oh Young-doo’s first feature, INVASION OF ALIEN BIKINI, but it showed enough promise to make me curious about what he came up with next; it also won a bit
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Amy Wren | James Howson | Kaya Scodelario | Nicola Burley | Oliver Milburn | Paul Hilton | Steve Evets
Thom says: “Here’s a wild & woolly, down & dirty reading of the classic Emily Bronte novel. www.us.imdb.com lists some 16 versions of the tragic romance so there was no real compelling reason for this new adaptation; nonetheless Arnold has
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Delphine Chuillot | Ethan Hawke | Joanna Kulig | Kristin Scott Thomas | Samir Guesmi
Bruce says: “It has been seven years since MY SUMMER OF LOVE, so to say the THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH was eagerly anticipated is an understatement. Although an entirely different type of film, comparisons to MIDNIGHT IN PARIS are
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Kim Gok | Kim Sun
Starring: Choi Ah-ra | Ham Eun-jung | Hwang Woo Seul-hye | Jin Se-yeon | Kim May Doni | Pyeon Jung-su
Jason says: “A girl-group horror movie isn’t really a bad idea at all: You’ve got pretty girls, who are highly competitive by nature to fuel any issues between them, and a bunch of settings and situations where people could be
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Rosser Goodman
Starring: David Wilson Page | Fay DeWitt | Jennifer Elise Cox | Joel Rush | Julie Goldman | Kate Flannery | Tyler Poelle
Thom says: “Corey appears to have it all: a wildly successful career, a caring, fun, naughty, bitchy sister, and a younger, adorable, gorgeous partner but when he wants to take his relationship to a more committed level the boyfriend freaks
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David Ayer
Starring: America Ferrera | Anna Kendrick | Frank Grillo | Jake Gyllenhaal | Michael Peña | Natalie Martinez | Zone
Thom says: “Gyllenhaal brought me to this buddy cop drama that used that too-oft-used new film technique of using hand-held cameras for film footage. Has this worked well anywhere except for [REC]2. Brian Taylor & Mike Zavala are best friends
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Ashley Gerasimovich | Ezra Miller | Jasper Newell | John C. Reilly | Rock Duer | Tilda Swinton
Jason says: “At no point during WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN are the words of the title actually spoken, but it’s not like it would have made a difference if they were. There’s just nothing you can do about
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Te-Sheng Wei
Starring: Chi-Wei Cheng | Da-Ching | Jun'ichi Haruta | Lin Ching-Tai | Masanobu Andô | Umin Boya
Jason says: “No matter the cultures involved, movies like WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW: SEEDIQ BALE follow a certain tragic pattern: Conquest, valiant rebellion, inevitable clampdown. Here, the invaders are the Japanese, the natives are Taiwan’s Seediq people, and the way
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shunichiro Miki
Starring: Furni Nikaido | Rinko Kikuchi | Yoji Tanaka | Yoshiyuki Morishita
Jason says: “Understand this: THE WARPED FOREST isn’t a sequel to FUNKY FOREST: THE FIRST CONTACT (the famously trippy film director/co-writer Shunichiro Miki made with Katsuhito Ishii and Hajime Ishimine); it’s a movie Miki made out of the ideas that
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