Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring: Jamie Foxx | Kerry Washington | Regina King
Janet says: “‘This film, the story of Ray Charles with Chlotrudis fave Kerry Washington as Ray’s long-suffering wife Bea, has a lot to recommend it although it’s constrained by the usual limitations of the biopic. “There is that seemingly unavoidable
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tony McNamara
Starring: Ben Lee | Christopher Stollery | Garry McDonald | Miranda Richardson | Rose Byrne
Barbara says: “At first I thought this was going to be ‘Napoleon Dynamite Grows Up’ but it was much more. The underlying themes about the parental relationship with each other and with Placid as well as the over the top
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Jack Lewis | John Greyson
Starring: Kerry Norton | Kristen Thomson | Neil Sandilands | Rouxnet Brown | Shaun Smyth | Tessa Jubber
Bruce says: “‘Tis a pity that John Greyson is not a stage director for his sensibilities are much better suited for live drama than for the screen. I would love to see him stage a major production for the ailing
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dylan Kidd
Starring: Gabriel Byrne | Laura Linney | Lois Smith | Marcia Gay Harden | Paul Rudd | Topher Grace
Carolyn says: “I knew very little about this movie except that it was similar to BIRTH another movie out in theaters that I only heard a bit about. Louise, an admission director for Columbia’s School of Fine Arts, receives an
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Shane Carruth
Starring: Casey Goodan | David Sullivan | Shane Carruth
Hilary says: “I think this is what my hell looks like: nerdy guys with flat voices talking in techie-speak and performing scientific experiments. “I made the choice to leave after 20 minutes rather than stay and fall asleep. Perhaps sci-fi
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Devlin
Bruce says: “At the beginning of POWER TRIP I thought I would be seeing another tale of a greedy American corporation taking advantage of citizens in the economically depressed and politically chaotic state of Georgia. That was a false assumption
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Christo Jivkov | Claudia Gerini | Francesco De Vito | Hristo Shopov | James Caviezel | Luca Lionello | Maia Morgenstern | Monica Bellucci
Bob says: “Long story short: I didn’t like or appreciate anything about this movie. “Long story relatively long: I’m leaving out the anti-Semitism question (I don’t take that stuff personally, and besides, it’s all true. My uncle Moshe did it)
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Daniel MacIvor
Starring: Daniel MacIvor | Rebecca Jenkins
Bruce says: “PAST PERFECT could easily be a two character, two act play: Then and Now. That would not be an oddity since the writer/director is also a playwright. It is fun to think about the possibility of stories presented
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Mark Brian Smith | Tony Montana
Ron says: “You’ll never work in this town again: OVERNIGHT is a documentary that follows the meteoric rise of Troy Duffy, who was given an unprecedented deal by Miramax in 1997 to direct his screenplay for THE BOONDOCK SAINTS. His
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Greenwald
Barbara says: “I thought this documentary was very good. It truly makes you think about news as a business and how easy it is to manipulate what people say. A perfect example is Bill O’Reilly who has a tremendously popular
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