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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Christina July Kim | Jackie Chung | John Lie | Justin Chon
Michael says: “This gentle film about losing a parent was based on an autobiographical ‘New Yorker’ essay written by Chang-Rae Lee, who then co-wrote the screenplay with director Wayne Wang, best known for his adaptation of Amy Tan’s THE JOY LUCK
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Alan Ball
Starring: Judy Greer | Margo Martindale | Paul Bettany | Peter Macdissi | Sophia Lillis | Steve Zahn
Diane says: “I’ll put UNCLE FRANK a notch above a Hallmark movie. An Amazon original by Alan Ball (screenplay, AMERICAN BEAUTY), this 1970s-set drama uses the perspective of adolescent Beth (well played by Sophia Lillis) who yearns for something more
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: David Gulpilil | Frederick Parslow | Nandjiwarra Amagula | Olivia Hamnett | Richard Chamberlain | Vivean Gray
Michael says: “There’s something about a Peter Weir film that appeals to me… even if I don’t like the film overall. Case in point: I’m not a fan of DEAD POET’S SOCIETY in the least, but I can’t deny the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Cockburn
Starring: Anand Rajaram | Nadia Capone | Nadia Litz | R.D. Reid | Tracy Wright
Michael says: “I was reading a negative review of TRIGGER, Bruce McDonald’s spiritual sequel to HARD CORE LOGO, starring Molly Parker and Tracy Wright, when a line caught my eye. Paraphrased, it something to the effect of while TRIGGER was
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Fernando Frias
Starring: Adriana Arbelaes | Coral Puente | Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño | Leo Zapata | Sophia Metcalf | Xueming Angelina Chen
Diane says: “In a part of Mexico wracked with violent gangs, Ulises is the leader of a group of young dancers, Los Terkos. Day after day they get together to hone their moves to cumbia, slowed-down Colombian songs. Ulises is
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Director: Michael Angelo Covino
Starring: Gayle Rankin | Judith Godrèche | Kyle Marvin | Michael Angelo Covino | Talia Balsam
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Paul Leyden
Starring: Bella Thorne | Dulcé Sloan. Kevin Connolly | Malin Akerman
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Francis Lee
Starring: Alec Secareanu | Fiona Shaw | Gemma Jones | Kate Winslet | Saoirse Ronan
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Eshom Nelms | Ian Nelms
Starring: Chance Hurstfield | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Mel Gibson | Walton Goggins
By Michael Colford
Director: Christopher Landon
Starring: Celeste O'Connor | Kathryn Newton | Misha Oserovich | Vince Vaughn
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: David Freyne
Starring: Barry Ward | Fionn O'Shea | Lola Petticrew | Sharon Horgan | Simone Kirby
Michael says: “This delightful Irish film is another version for a high school rom-com, that follows a lot of the standard framework, but the main difference here is that Eddie is gay (and deeply closeted) and he’s dating Amber, a
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Director: Jerry Ciccoritti
Starring: Benjamin Ayres | Bruce Greenwood | David Hewlett | Megan Follows
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Bryan Bertino
Starring: Julie Oliver-Touchstone | Lynn Andrews | Marin Ireland | Michael Abbott Jr.
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Joe Marcantonio
Starring: Anton Lesser | Chloe Pirrie | Fiona Shaw | Jack Lowden
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Dana Ziyasheva
Starring: Eric Robers | J.P. Manoux | Nick Moran | Shannon Briggs
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Lebrecht | Nicole Newnham
Michael says: “I often wonder about the genesis of documentaries and how the decision to make a film about a certain subject must be nerve-wracking. Not every story is compelling, no matter how much shooting and editing the filmmaker does.
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Director: Patricio Guzmán
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pedro Costa
Starring: Manuel Tavares Almeida | Ventura | Vitalina Varela
Chris says: “On the basis of this (I haven’t seen his other work), Pedro Costa makes slow cinema like Tsai Ming-liang, only without his playfulness or, in fact, any trace of humor. This is not a negative critique, for this
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Director: Peter Medak
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Bruno Dumont
Starring: Annick Lavieville | Benoît Robail | Justine Herbez | Lise Leplat Prudhomme
