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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Anna Taylor-Joy | Diana Rigg | Jessie Mei Li | Matt Smith | Oliver Phelps | Rita Tushingham | Thomasin McKenzie
Brett says: “I’m sure I’m not the only one who has thought of this by any means, but a piece of advice about Steven Spielberg I always told friends in my younger days was that you should find out the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jayro Bustamante
Starring: Ayla-Elea Hurtado | Juan Pablo Olyslager | Julio Diaz | Margarita Kenéfic | María Mercedes Coroy | María Telón | Sabrina De La Hoz
Michael says: “Here’s a Guatemalan horror film that features the Central American legend of ‘the wailing woman’ a spirit who returns to avenge an injustice to women, but uses the the actions of a military government that resulted in the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rossana Diaz Costa
Starring: Augusto Linares | Fernando Bacilio | Fiorella de Ferrari | Liliana Alegría | Nacho Fresneda | Rodrigo Barba
Diane says: “Director Rossana Díaz Costa gets her own adaptation of this preeminent Latin American novel on screen in time for the novel’s 50th anniversary. Julius is the youngest of four children in a wealthy family living palatially in Lima, Peru
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mélanie Delloye
Starring: Antoine Chain | Julie Judd | Samantha Markowic | Sébastien Drouet
Diane says: “Debut feature by French-Colombian filmmaker Melanie Delloye. Siblings return home to their 80-year-old father’s mansion in Reims to persuade him to sell the house–for his own good, of course! The family members are leery of each other, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Scott Monahan
Starring: Christopher Corey Smith | Dakota Loesch | Scott Monahan
Diane says: “First film from collaborators Scott Monahan and Dakota Loesch, ANCHORAGE was shot in five days with a crew of ten. The director and writer also play the two leads, brothers who hit the road to sell a huge
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joachim Trier
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Hans Olav Brenner | Herbert Nordrum | Maria Grazia Di Meo | Renate Reinsve
Diane says: “In Joachim Trier’s latest film, the lead from his OSLO AUGUST 31ST (2011), Anders Danielsen Lie, almost steals the show from the main character. But I’m not complaining. Lie plays comic book author Aksel, the first serious relationship
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martyn Robertson
Diane says: “RIDE THE WAVE (Martyn Robertson directs his debut doc) had something for both me and my sweetheart!: Scotland and surfing. WAVE hits highlights and lowlights of three years with Ben Larg, a young Scottish surfer who competes on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alana Waksman
Starring: Devery Jacobs | Kate Britton | Kendra Mylnechuk | Madeleine Coghlan | Rinnan Henderson
Diane says: “In WE BURN LIKE THIS, Rae, a young woman living in Billings, MT, calls upon her heritage of survivorship to begin to face childhood trauma and present-day addictions. Filmmaker Alana Waksman packs a little too much thematically into
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Céline Sciamma
Starring: Gabrielle Sanz | Joséphine Sanz | Margot Abascal | Nina Meurisse | Stéphane Varupenne
Diane says: “Director Celine Sciamma (GIRLHOOD, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) disappoints with a slight take on a mother-daughter relationship. Eight-year-old Nelly tries to understand her mother’s depression, especially now after the death of her grandmother. On the long
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee | Kuei-Mei Yang | Shiang-chyi Chen | Yi Cheng Lee. Yi Chieh Lee | Yi-ching Lu
Michael says: “After seeing the great director Tsai Ming-liang’s latest film, DAYS, I decided to go back and watch his previous film, and the only of his features that I hadn’t seen, STRAY DOGS. Interestingly enough, while I was braced
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sterlin Harjo
Starring: Casey Camp-Horinek | Jon Proudstar | Julian Ballentyne | Laura Spencer | Richard Way Whitman | Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Michael says: “After hearing some praise about the new streaming television series, RESERVATION DOGS, which director Harjo executive produced as well as wrote and directed for, I decided to dip into his 2009 film, BARKING WATER, before starting in on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Audrey Totter | Cecil Kellaway | Hume Cronyn | John Garfield | Lana Turner | Leon Ames
Michael says: “Often mentioned as one of the best examples of film noir, I thought I should check out this novel adaptation from 1946. An entertaining romp, to be sure, but it doesn’t have the charisma and appeal as those
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Director: John Hsu
Starring: Cecilia Choi | Hung Chang Chu | ingle Wang | Jing-Hua Tseng | Meng-Po Fu | Yue-Ti Liu
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kier-La Janisse
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Jimmy Chin
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Clara Strauch | Grace Delrue | Hempus Nordenson | Mia Wasikowska | Tim Roth | Vicky Krieps
Julie says: “Even with Tim Roth and Vicki Krieps, who were both excellent, the story was just so-so and story within story ughh. There was one interesting element near the end that if one blinks they might miss and sort
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Starring: Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson | Ester Bibi | Hilmir Snær Guðnason | Ingvar Sigurdsson | Noomi Rapace
Brett says: “All’s fair in love and wool. The film LAMB works as a film that’s more about the journey rather than the meaning. Even the most subtle explanation here would involve potential spoilers for the film, so it is
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Director: Aron Gaudet | Gita Pullapilly
Starring: Eduardo Franco | Greta Oglesby | Joel McHale | Kirby Howell-Baptiste | Kristen Bell | Lidia Porto
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Castille Landon
Starring: Arielle Kebbel | Chance Perdomo | Hero Fiennes Tiffin | Josephine Langford | Louise Lombard | Rob Estes | Stephen Moyer
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Juana Macías
Starring: Álex González | Elisabet Casanovas | Eva Ugarte | Maria Valverde | Miri Pérez-Cabrero | Susana Abaitua
