Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: David Michôd
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn | Guy Pearce | Jacki Weaver | Joel Edgerton | Luke Ford | Sullivan Stapleton
TC says: “This Aussie crime thriller is an amazingly taut, heart-stopping ride from beginning to end. The story of a Melbourne crime family on the way down as seen from J, the 18-year-old nephew of the family whose mother kept
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Bruno Forzani | Hélène Cattet
Starring: Bianca Maria D'Amato | Cassandra Forêt | Delphine Brual | Harry Cleven | Marie Bos
Jason says: “The most popular phrases being used to describe AMER tend to include the word giallo – it is giallo-inspired, reminiscent of the giallo films of the 1970s, etc., etc. This is true, but also misleading, because such descriptions
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Arata | Du-na Bae | Itsuji Itao | Jô Odagiri | Sumiko Fuji
Michael says: “One day an inflatable air doll, a substitute for sexual pleasure, wakes up to find she has a heart. She is self-animated, self-aware, and filled with wonder as she discovers the world around her. On a meandering sojourn
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Starring: Chen Li | Daoming Chen | Fan Xu | Guoqiang Zhang | Jin Chen | Jingchu Zhang | Yi Lu
Jason says: “It’s not hard to get the wrong impression of AFTERSHOCK; the poster in the theater lobby notes that it was released in IMAX (interestingly, though showing the North American release date, the text on that one-sheet is almost
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Ashraf Barhorn | Max Minghella | Michael Lonsdale | Oscar Isaac | Rachel Weisz | Rupert Evans
Jason says: “I adore AGORA, and I’ll readily admit that a large part of it is that I agree with the politics and philosophy of the thing. Rather than it being a movie about a scientist who encounters something her
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Starring: Aditya Roy Kapoor | Aishwarya Rai | Akshay Kumar | Alok Kumar | Neha Dhupia | Randhir Kapoor
Jason says: “Western movie fans may have some doubts about the provenance of Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s new film, ACTION REPLAYY. It’s an adaptation of a 1994 play with almost the same name (the play spells it correctly), although Warner Brothers,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Amber Tamblyn | Coleman Stinger | James Franco | Kate Mara | Sean Bott | Treat Williams
Jason says: “There is not a whole heck of a lot to 127 HOURS, story-wise: Guy goes climbing on his own, gets pinned by a falling boulder, and has to figure out a way to get out of a thoroughly
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Reed Cowan | Steven Greenstreet
Thom says: “You might well have thought that due to my living in California & being gay & Proposition 8 being right in my state I would have been more appreciative of this piece of agitprop. It’s certainly not because
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Erik Knudsen | Jean Smart | Michael Cera | Portia Doubleday | Steve Buscemi | Zach Galifanakis
Jason says: “The night I saw this, I tweeted that I wasn’t sure whether Youth in Revolt was more amusingly or annoyingly mannered, and I still haven’t decided. It is, frequently, very funny, with great combinations of slapstick, wordplay, situations
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Bruce says: “Films about artists often fall short because the filmmaker does not know how to balance the personal life of the artist with the product he or she has created. The two united several years ago I was in
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