Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Eddie Marsan | Jude Law | Mark Strong | Rachel McAdams | Robert Downey Jr | Robert Maillet
Thom says: “Hmmm… Admittedly, I have no respect at all for fake macho director Ritchie, and while this film is fitfully entertaining, finally let’s attack it for esthetic reasons. This was adapted from a comic book of all mediums but
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Nora Twomey | Tom Moore
Starring: Brendan Gleeson | Evan McGuire | Liam Hourican | Michael McGrath | Mick Lally
Toni says: “Tomm Moore and his co-production team in Ireland, France, and Belgium, have created a beautiful and haunting masterpiece based of the famous Irish Book of Kells. It is sort of a mix of darker Miyazaki crossed with a touch
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hue Rhodes
Starring: John Cho | Peter Dinklage | Romany Malco | Sarah Silverman | Steve Buscemi | Tim Blake Nelson
Jason says: “This one had a short run on the plex’s smallest screen, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s a pretty decent movie, with a good cast, but it’s also a weird one, with gambling addict John encountering
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Flora Sigismondi
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Dakota Fanning | Kristen Stewart | Michael Shannon | Scout Taylor-Compton | Stella Maeve
TC says: “If you were around in the late 70s, you know the kind of sexist conditions that girls who wanted to rock out ran into. That’s the ultimate story behind THE RUNAWAYS, the story of the groundbreaking all-girl punk
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Justin Edwards
Starring: Franco Castan | James Jarrett | Lauren Jennings | Liz Kate | Scottie Knollin | Terri James
Jason says: “There are many varieties of ‘edgy,’ but most can fit within two broad categories: Those that make a mainstream viewer say ‘ewwwww!’ and those that make that same mainstream viewer say ‘what the hell?’ There is, as one
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sebastian Junger | Tim Hertherington
Chris says: “I’ve always struggled with war films (both fictional and docs)—it’s possibly my least favorite genre. But I loved THE HURT LOCKER and if this isn’t exactly its real-life equivalent, that’s fine because it aims for something else. Not
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: D. Kerry Prior
Starring: Chris Wylde | David Anders | Jacy King | Louise Griffiths
Jason says: “THE REVENANT is nearly two hours, long for a splatter-comedy, and if I could come up with a good suggestion for trimming it, I would probably offer it. The trouble is, the scenes which could probably survive a
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Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Chris Walker | David Morrissey | Jim Carter | Lisa Howard | Sean Bean | Shaun Dooley | Warren Clarke
Jason says: “The finale of a series never stands up well on its own, no matter how well-intentioned the production may be. One can argue that it shouldn’t, that by the time we get to the third act, the only
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Director: James Marsh
Starring: David Calder | John Fox | Maxine Peake | Nicholas Woodeson | Paddy Considine | Ron Cook | Warren Clarke
Jason says: “David Peace’s Red Riding novels are described as a quartet, and if you look at the titles to the filmed RED RIDING HOOD TRILOGY, there’s clearly a hole where 1977 should be. For whatever reason, screenwriter Tony Grisoni
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Simon Rumley
Starring: Amanda Fuller | Jon Michael Davis | Marc Senter | Nick Ashy Holden | Noah Taylor | Patrick Crovo
Jason says: “RED WHITE & BLUE takes its time messing the audience up. Even the big event that pulls everything together takes a few scenes to really sink in, as we connect just what’s been going on with a growing
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