Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tracie Laymon
Starring: Barbie Ferreira | French Stewart | John Leguizamo | Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer | Rachel Bay Jones
Diane says: “My movie companion turned to me at the end of BOB TREVINO LIKES IT and said, ‘Maybe cinephiles would find some flaws in this movie, but it was just perfect.’ “So I won’t mention the occasional clunky dialogue.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alex Barland | Ray Mendoza
Starring: Aaron Mackenzie | Alex Brockdorff | Cosmo Jarvis | D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai | Joseph Quinn
Diane says: “WARFARE is a recreated 2006 incident from the Iraq War, involving a group of mostly Navy SEALS. Co-director Ray Mendoza (along with Alex Garland) was part of the platoon. They used the testimony of platoon members to write the
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Maotao Hu | Tao Zhao | You Zhou | Zhou Lan | Zhubin Li
Michael says: “Zhangke Jia’s twelfth, full-length feature narrative, CAUGHT IN THE TIDES, is a challenging yet fascinating construction of his own past and present work to tell the tale of a woman searching for her beloved over decades. The film
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Isaiah Saxon
Starring: Emily Watson | Finn Wolfhard | Helena Zengel | Razvan Stoica | Willem Dafoe
Laks says: “THE LEGEND OF OCHI follows the story of Yuri, who is dressed in a bright yellow puffy jacket and begins with her hunting with her father and many brothers. We soon learn that they are hunting the Ochi
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Rating: 5 cats
Starring: Jessica Earnshaw
Diane says: “I am so glad I saw this movie. BABY DOE is a doc by Jessica Earnshaw about a grandmother who is on trial for leaving a newborn to die at the side of the road 25 years before.
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Director: Wendy Sachs
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Scott Briggs
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Rob Taylor
Starring: Danielle Vasinova | Eddie Griffin | Emily Sweet | Paula Abdul | Walter Koenig
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Philippe Lesage
Starring: Antoine Marchand-Gagnon | Arieh Worthalter | Aurélia Arandi-Longpré | Noah Parker | Paul Ahmarani
Chris says: “‘Cabin Fever!’, one woman quips at the dinner table following a particularly cringe-laden tirade thrown by another of its occupants; this occurs closer towards the end of this character study about ten or so people staying at a
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Director: Anthony Schatteman
Starring: Dirk van Dijck | Emilie De Roo | Geert Van Rampelberg | Lou Goossens | Marius De Saeger
