Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rob Stefaniuk
Starring: Alice Cooper | Dave Foley | Henry Rollins | Iggy Pop | Jessica Paré | Malcolm McDowell | Moby | Nicole de Boer
Thom says: “Another lackluster Canadian entry this one about a touring rock ‘n roll band will do anything to get ahead, yes, even become vampires. You can tell a film like this is crappy when a quality talent (McDowell) walks
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gail O'Hara | Kerthy Fix
Chris says: “An adequate documentary about an extraordinary subject, this decade-in-the-making labor of love profiles Stephin Merritt, cult musician and head of The Magnetic Fields (and many other side projects). As a songwriter, Merritt seems out-of-time, his lyrics and melodies
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Steve Balderson
Starring: Jane Wiedlin | Karen Black | Mink Stole | Stacy Cunningham | Starina Johnson | Susan Traylor
Jason says: “The thing to realize about STUCK! is that, despite the exclamation point in the title and the meticulous recreation of a genre and style that has fallen out of favor, it is not a parody. Or at least,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Danny Pang | Oxide Pang Chun
Starring: Aaron Kwok | Charlene Choi | Ekin Cheng | Kenny Ho | Nicholas Tse | Simon Yam | Suet Lam
Jason says: “My monthly pull at the comic shop is pretty international: North American, British, French, Korean, Japanese. No Chinese, though; not much of that has made it to America in translation. Which means I can’t say for sure whether
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Heilbroner | Kate Davis
Bruce says: “This documentary examines the aftermath of the infamous riots which occurred on June 28, 1969 when police raided the Stonewall Tavern on Christopher Street, near Sheridan Square in New York’s Greenwich Village. The film uses a quote from
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Don Argott
Bruce says: “In 1922, rebuffed and ridiculed by art critics – the Philadelphia Inquirer in particular – and many of the wealthy Philadelphians who supported the arts, Dr. Albert Barnes hired John G. Johnson, one of the best lawyers and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bill Guttentag | Dan Sturman
Thom says: “I was all set to watch this out of obligation. Not that I haven’t been a strong advocate my entire life of universal acceptance and love but this was a story I’m intimately familiar with because of demonstrating
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Adrien Brody | Brandon McGibbon | Delphine Chanéac | Sarah Polley | Simona Maicanescu
Jason says: “SPLICE is an independent film that has been cleverly disguised as a big-studio summer movie, so a fair portion of the audience may feel uneasy as they watch it. More uneasy, that is; writer-director Vincenzo Natali isn’t just
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Adam Bousdoukos | Anna Bederke | Birol Ünel | Lukas Gregorowicz | Moritz Bliebtreu | Pheline Roggan
Bruce says: “Fatih Akin’s first international hit HEAD-ON was an augury of great things to come. Certainly the Chlotrudis Best Picture, THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, bore out any such theories of predication regarding his work. Along comes SOUL KITCHEN which,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mat Whitecross
Starring: Andy Serkis | Bill Milner | Luke Evans | Naomie Harris | Olivia Williams | Ray Winstone | Toby Jones
Bruce says: “Director Mat Whitecross figures that a straightforward biopic could not possibly do Ian Dury justice. His artistic decisions pay off. SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL is a nontraditional take on a very nontraditional subject. In addition
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