Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Conor McPherson
Starring: Aiden Quinn | Cirián Hinds | Iben Hjejle | Jim Norton
Bruce says: “Were it not for a career-defining performance by Cirián Hinds THE ECLIPSE might not find much of an audience. While it is a ghost story and it is scary at times, it is lacking in cult potential largely
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Will Gluck
Starring: Amanda Bynes | Dan Byrd | Emma Stone | Patricia Clarkson | Penn Badgley | Thomas Haden Church
Thom says: “I’m a fan of the teen genre but, let’s face it, can anything be done to make it fresh and new? Heaven knows this isn’t that movie. It most resembles MEAN GIRLS, but it’s nowhere as good. There
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: David Schaal | Julia Deakin | Kerry Peacock | Robert Hill | Robin Hill | Tony Way
Jason says: “A lot of gangster movies want you to know that they aren’t just about crime, but about family. You can’t miss it, they’re so formal and insistent that it becomes overbearing. DOWN TERRACE, while it has other flaws,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Aggeliki Papoulia | Christos Stergioglou | Hristos Passalis | Mary Tsoni | Michelle Valley
Bruce says: “Dark comedy either grabs you or keeps you at arm’s length. Fortunately DOGTOOTH is the type of film that is intriguing from the get go. In an early scene a mother (Michelle Valley) is giving her three children
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Patrick Alessandrin
Starring: Cyril Raffaelli | Daniel Duval | David Belle | Elodie Yung | MC Jean Gab'1 | Philippe Torreton
Jason says: “I hate to be a scold about such things, but I saw DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM back-to-back with FROM PARIS WITH LOVE (well, back-to-back with time to walk from one theater to another). Both came from Luc Besson’s action-movie
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Fierlinger | Sandra Fierlinger
Starring: Brian Murray | Christopher Plummer | Isabella Rossellini | Lynn Redgrave | Peter Gerety
Beth Caldwell says: “For some reason, I was the only one of the movie group who really liked this film. Maybe it’s because I’m a dog lover. But, I really liked the narrative style. I loved the drawings (animation within animation)
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Park Bench
Starring: Alex Appel | Barbara Radecki | Gordon Currie | Kris Holden-Ried | Megan Fahlenbock | Park Bench
Jason says: “A couple days after watching it and turning it over in my mind, I can’t decide whether THE DEATH OF ALICE BLUE is a sloppy example of vampire soap opera melodrama or a dead-on parody of such things.
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: J Blakeson
Starring: Eddie Marsan | Gemma Arterton | Martin Compston
Thom says: “This fun caper film features the kidnap of a woman who is the daughter of a very powerful man, by two fellows that appear to have a very well-thought-out plan that they execute to a certain perfection. But,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ben Safdie | Joshua Safdie
Starring: Alex Greenblatt | Dakota O'Hara | Eleonore Hendricks | Frey Ranaldo | Ronald Bronstein | Sage Ranaldo | Sean Price Williams | Victor Puccio
Chris says: “With their first two features, filmmakers/brothers Josh and Benny Safdie already demonstrate a knack for designating reasonably unsympathetic characters as their protagonists: THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED followed an unrepentant kleptomaniac, while DADDY LONGLEGS offers up Lenny (Ronald
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Drazek
Starring: Adam Busch | Aimee-Lynn Chadwick | Edrick Browne | Jordan Kessler | Laura Silverman
Jason says: “I admit it – when I opened up the IMDB page for CUMMINGS FARM for reference while writing this review, I was kind of shocked to go straight to the film page, rather than a list of this
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