Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Director: Christopher Morris
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch | Craig Parkinson | Kayvan Novak | Nigel Lindsay | Preeya Kalidas | Riz Ahmed
Jason says: “Before getting upset at the very existence of terrorist comedy FOUR LIONS, remember one thing: Most criminals are idiots. If they were smart, they’d likely be putting their talents to use doing something much more lucrative with much
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Adam Kane
Starring: James Van Der Beek | John Heard | Tzi Ma | Wendy Crewson | Will Tiao
Jason says: “(There’s movies where you want your opinion known, movies that you want people made aware of, and shameless attempts to make sure that the limited-release film you saw counts toward your films-seen tally at the end of the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Starring: Annika Hallin | Lena Endre | Michael Nyqvist | Michalis Koutsogiannakis | Noomi Rapace | Peter Andersson
Jason says: “It’s not really important that the first ‘Millennium’ novel (and film adaptation) is called Men Who Hate Women in Sweden, becoming The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in English-speaking countries for the purpose of having the entire trilogy
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ha Yu
Starring: In-seong Jo | Ji-hyo Song | Jin-mo Ju
Jason says: “How things change; before THE KING AND THE CLOWN, which was very careful about what it showed of its title characters’ relationship, I don’t think you ever saw gay characters in Korean cinema, and Park Chan-wook’s THIRST wound
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Anthony Hopkins | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Hiroyuki Sanada | Laura Linney | Omar Metwally
Michael says: “I am a huge fan of Peter Cameron’s novel The City of Your Final Destination, so I was looking forward to James Ivory’s adaptation of the same name. The main story follows the journey of a young man
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Brooke Smith | David Andrews | Naomi Watts | Norbert Leo Butz | Sean Penn
Jason says: “FAIR GAME is a good movie that is going to have a target on its back for all the wrong reasons. If the story were relocated and names were changed, both its issues and its strengths would be
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yael Hersonski
TC says: “I can’t describe what an amazing, powerful movie this is. The film focuses on four reels of film shot in 1942 in the Warsaw ghetto by Nazi filmmakers who were making a propaganda film. But for some reason,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Robert Pulcini | Shari Springer Berman
Starring: Alicia Goranson | Dan Hedaya | John C. Reilly | Katie Holmes | Kevin Kline | Paul Dano
Jason says: “In general, it’s a bad sign when the main character of a movie isn’t the first name you see in the credits. That’s not a rule you can really rely on, since that sort of thing is often
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Banksy
Chris says: “It’s rare for one film to fully capture how an artistic movement evolves from inception to irrelevance, but that’s just what this ingenuously constructed, gleefully entertaining documentary does for graffiti-inspired guerrilla street art—as it’s all happening, no less.
Read the review...Everyone Else (USA; 108 min.) directed by: Maren Ade starring: Birgit Minichmayr; Lars Eidinger; Hans-Jochen Wagner; Nicole Marischka; Mira Partecke Scot says: “Just watched the German film EVERYONE ELSE, which I quite enjoyed. My concise summary of the film is
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