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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ellise Chappell | Himesh Patel | Lily James | Sophia Di Martino
Thom says: “Oh dear, amidst Danny Boyle’s really great films including SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, TRAINSPOTTING, 127 HOURS, & SUNSHINE there was always the stench of mediocrity in THE BEACH, A LIFE LESS ORDINARY, & TRANCE, & while YESTERDAY isn’t as bad
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nisha Ganatra
Starring: Emma Thompson | Hugh Dancy | John Lithgow | Mindy Kaling
Thom says: “I had rather high expecta tions for this film, but still was thrilled at how much I enjoyed it. Director Ganatra has had lots of television experience, but previously her features were lackluster. But a great (if cookie-cutter)
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Megan Wennberg
Thom says: “This was being offered for free by PrimeVideo so I decided why not. Earlier in my life, even though I’ve always been gay, I wasn’t particularly interested in drag queens until I discovered the incomparable Divine, whom I
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sébastien Marnier
Starring: Emmanuelle Bercot | Laurent Lafitte | Luàna Bajrami | Pascal Greggory | Victor Bonnel
Thom says: “Director Marnier has made only one previous unseen feature FAULTLESS (2016) so I had no idea what to expect here & I was enthralled with this dark surprise. The film largely takes place within the confines of a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Serge Bozon
Starring: Adda Senani | Isabelle Huppert | José Garcia | Romain Duris
Thom says: “As you’d suspect from the title this is yet another take on the supposed-classic Robert Louis Stevenson DR. JECKYLL & MR. HYDE shape-shifting horror novel. With so many examples of previous attempts to capture the essence of the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jeremy Hersh
Starring: Brooke Bloom | Chris Perfetti | Jasmine Batchelor | Sullivan Jones
Michael says: “When Jess finds out she’s pregnant, people are happy, but rather surprised. The real surprise is that this young, African-American, Brooklynite is acting as a surrogate for her best friends, an interracial gay couple despite her own aversion
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ilker Çatak
Starring: Anne Ratte-Polle | Godehard Giese | Jörg Schüttauf | Ogulcan Arman Uslu
Michael says: “This German/French co-production is an intriguing love story, that’s actually a complex story of finding oneself and determine their path in life. When we first meet Baran, he is hitchhiking to the coast of Turkey, nothing but the
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Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Clarke Peters | Delroy Lindo | Jonathan Majors | Norm Lewis
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Shoojit Sircar
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan | Ayushmann Khurrana | Brijendra Kala | Vijay Raaz
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Joshua Caldwell
Starring: Amber Riley | Bella Thorne | Jake Manley | Marisa Cohglin
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Merland Hoxha
Starring: Grant Wright Gunderson. Austin Lauer | Jon Briddell | Kendall Chappell | Olivia Lemmon
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Ani Simon-Kennedy
Starring: Danny Trejo | Maggie Siff | Sabrina Carpenter | Steven Ogg
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby
Starring: Kate Ashfield | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Robert Aramayo | Tuva Novotny
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Rebecca Matthews
Starring: Abi Casson Thompson | Heather Jackson | Jon Callaway | Kate Lush
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jeffrey McHale
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Director: Craig Bettendorf
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Mirrah Foulkes
Starring: Benedict Hardie | Damon Herriman | Jacke Koman | Mia Wasikowska
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Lynn Roth
Starring: August Maturo | Ayelet Zurer | Ken Duken | Rebeka Rea
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Anna Ferrara | Cristina Chiriac | Stella Mastrantonio | Willem Dafoe
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Patrick Shanahan
Starring: Beth Broderick | Brooke Butler | Madison Iseman | Olivia Grace Applegate
