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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Richard Ayoade
Starring: Chris O’Dowd | James Fox | Jesse Eisenberg | Mia Wasikowska | Noah Taylor | Wallace Shawn
Jason says: “It says something, either about my expectations or what Richard Ayoade pulled off, that THE DOUBLE is actually more peculiar than I had figured on a movie about a man meeting a dead ringer who is his opposite
Read the review...Don’t Ask Me Questions: The Unsung Life of Graham Parker & The Rumour (USA; 95 min.) directed by: Michael Gramaglia documentary Thom says: “Earlier in my life nothing possessed me like music for a number of years & I went
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: Demián Bichir | Emilia Clark | Jude Law | Jumayn Hunter | Richard E. Grant
Jason says: “Dom Hemingway feels like he’s the sort of character Jude Law could settle into and play for a while, so perhaps it’s only fitting that the movie itself plays like a couple episodes of a TV show that
Read the review...Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder (Norway; 87 min.) directed by: Arild Fröhlichstarring: Eilif Hellum Noraker; Emilly Glaister; Kristopher Joner; Marian Saastad Ottesen; Alte Antonsen Jason says: “All things considered, DOCTOR PROCTOR’S FART POWDER has got to be one of the least
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Starring: André Dussollier | Burghart Klaußner | Johannes Klaußner | Niels Arstrup | Robert Stadlober | Thomas Arnold
Thom says: “While director Schlöndorff doesn’t have quite the cachet of contemporaries Herzog, Fassbinder, or Wenders he still has a fairly consistent track record with THE TIN DRUM, YOUNG TORLESS, THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM, COUP DE GRACE, CIRCLE
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Alessandro Nivola | Colin Firth | James Hamrick | Kristopher Higgins | Reese Witherspoon | Seth Meriwether
Michael says: “For his latest film, Atom Egoyan tackled the controversial true story of the West Memphis Three, a court case about the shocking murder of three young boys. Three young men were targeted as the murderers because of the
Read the review...The Desert (Argentina; 98 min.) directed by: Chritsoph Behlstarring: Lautaro Delgado; William Procluk; Victoria Almeida; Lucas LaGré Jason says: “There’s a lot to like about Christoph Behl’s post-apocalyptic love triangle, and the fact that it can be described as such
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Justin Simien
Starring: Brittany Curran | Dennis Haysbert | Kyle Gallner | Tessa Thompson | Tyler James Williams
Kyle says: “’Dear White People: The amount of black friends required not to seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone doesn’t count!’ Thus Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) begins her Winchester University campus radio show
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Andy Serkis | Gary Oldman | Jason Clarke | Judy Greer | Keri Russell | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Toby Kebbell
Thom says: “Yes, I’ve seen them all: PLANET OF THE APES (1968, 4 CATS), BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970, 4 CATS), ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1971, 4.5 CATS), CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Adan Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Brontis Jodorowsky | Jeremias Herskovits | Pamela Flores
Jason says: “I wouldn’t necessarily expect Alejandro Jodorowsky to be particularly prone to nostalgia; the director, writer, and ‘psychomagician’ has, throughout his career, favored the grandly imaginative and metaphysical to the mundane to an extent that few in any medium
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jonas Govaerts
Starring: Evelien Bosmans | Maurice Luijten | Sef Aerts | Titus De Voogdt
Brett says: “CUB is a film loaded with potential for a horror film, taking its premise from the campfire stories that are commonplace among scouts crowded around the camp fire in the woods on a weekend retreat. This premise is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jerzy Rose
Starring: Adam Paul | Adebukola Bodunrin | Lyra Hill | Mike Lopez | Ted Temper
Jason says: “Even by black comedy standards, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY is kind of on the mean side. That’s no knock; mean can work, especially in a movie like this that is more about tying jokes together than building to one
Read the review...The Creeping Garden (USK; 81 min.) directed by: Tim Graham & Jasper Sharpdocumentary Jason says: “I take a certain amount of pride in seeing/reviewing movies like this at festivals, and I half think it’s why some issue me press passes
Read the review...Creep (USA; 82 min.) directed by: Patrick Bricestarring: Patrick Brice; Mark Duplas Jason says: “My only issues with CREEP have nothing whatsoever to do with the movie itself. First, there’s the generic title – it’s only been ten years since
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ari Folman
Starring: Danny Huston | Harvey Keitel | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Michael Stahl-David | Robin Wright | Sami Gayle
TC says: “Loosely adapted from the Stanislaw Lem novel (who would probably say ‘VERY loosely’), this film is almost impossible to review, because as a film writer and fan, the thought of the stuff going on in this film is
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tze Chun
Starring: Alice Eve | Bryan Cranston | Erin Cummings | Logan Marshall-Green | Robin Taylor | Ursula Parker
Jason says: “There are a number of paths to directing major motion pictures, and I suspect that the one Tze Chun is on is fairly common: Do some shorts, make a truly independent film that’s close to your heart for
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Starring: Elizabeth Gracen | Emily Foxler | Hugo Armstrong | Lauren Maher | Maury Sterling | Nicholas Brendon
Jason says: “COHERENCE is one of the talkiest, most actor-centric sci-fi films you’re ever likely to see, but this is a case where that’s a pretty good thing. Sure, something this odd and improv-heavy can invite disaster when a neat
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jan Ole Gerster
Starring: Andreas Schröders | Justus von Dohnányi | Katharina Hauck | Katharina Schüttler | Tom Schilling
Bruce says: “Some films resonate so profoundly with me that I can feel myself embodied in one of the characters. For me, Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) is one of those characters. Niko transports me back to my twenties. Each move,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Vivian Qu
Jason says: “A trap street is a non-existent road placed on a map so that cartographers will be able to tell when competitors have copied their work rather than surveying the area independently. It’s not a common term in film
Read the review...CinemAbility (USA; 98 min.) directed by: Jenni Goldstarring: Geena Davis; Ben Afleck; Michael Apted; Jamie Foxx; Peter Bogdanovich; Beau Bridges; Peter Farrelly Bruce says: “Like other films about outsiders in the world of cinema – such as HOLLYWOOD CHINESE and
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