Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Christoph Waltz | Eliot Berger | Elvis Polanski | Jodie Foster | John C. Reilly | Kate Winslet
Thom says: “I went to see this film at a theatre only 4 blocks from where I live. My brother is a huge Roman Polanski fan and I do admire his work greatly so off we went. Then a dear
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dori Berinstein
Chris says: “You may argue that the world wasn’t waiting for a Carol Channing documentary, to which I respond, ‘Yes, but can anyone name another performer remotely like her?’ That instantly recognizable voice alone could inspire its own Broadway musical.
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mikael Marcimain
Starring: David Dencik | Kristoffer Joner | Outi Mäenpää | Pernilla August | Ruth Vega Hernandez | Sven Nordin
Thom says: “CALL GIRL is set in the late 1970s – The film takes us on an excursion from the lowest of Swedish society (young teenage girls who are emotionally fucked-up, to the point where they refuse to respond to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring: Alice Dubois | Evelyne Brochu | Hélène Florent | Kevin Parent | Marin Gerrier | Vaness Paradis
Thom says: “Director Vallée made a splash a few years back with C.R.A.Z.Y. & I quite liked his THE YOUNG VICTORIA (2009) (another entry that was denied me at TIFF 2009) so I went into the film with my eyes
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Drew Goddard
Starring: Anna Hutchison | Chris Hemsworth | Fran Kranz | Jesse Williams | Kristen Connolly | Richard Jenkins
Thom says: “Being a huge Josh Whedon fan (I’ve loved ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, ‘Dollhouse’, ‘Firefly’, ‘Angel’, SERENITY, & hopefully THE AVENGERS I naturally had to see this with his participation in this horror film. First rate production and clever
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Rating: 0.5 cats
Director: Jim Field Smith
Starring: Alicia Silverstone | Ashley Greene | Hugh Jackman | Jennifer Garner | Olivia Wilde | Rob Corddry | Ty Burrell
Matt says: “Everyone involved with the production of BUTTER no doubt wanted to make a funny and moving film about butter carving, politics, and obsessive competition. Unfortunately, all that hard work has churned out a product as dull, tasteless, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brenna Sanchez | Tom Putnam
Jason says: “It’s sad to say but true – Detroit has been known for its fires for a long time, and the recent economic tumult which has hit the Motor City especially hard has not slowed that activity down in
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Michael R. Roskam
Starring: Barbara Sarafian | Jeanne Dandoy | Jeroen Perceval | Matthias Schoenaerts
Jason says: “BULLHEAD stands as evidence that if you make the effort, you can find an epic tale in the most unlikely of places. Here, writer/director Michael R. Roskam takes us to a cattle farm in Limburg, Belgium, where seemingly
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Lee Hirsch
Thom says: “Here’s another film I had high expectations for that ended up being disappointing. I’m all for the purpose of the film as I loathe bullies. I’ve been rather lucky as I never was much bothered by bullies until
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chi-Leung Law
Starring: Jing Boran | Lau Ching-wan | Li Kai-chi | Nicholas Tse | Wu Gang | Yang Min | Yumiko Cheng
Jason says: “A friend of mine recently lamented on Twitter about the demise of the mystery movie in Hollywood, and the best thing I could point him to was a Chinese movie that will likely be more considered a martial
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