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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Andrew Sniezek
Starring: James Calla | Jason Courtemanche | Patrick Luce
Bob says: “Poor, despondent Bruce is really just looking for a father figure. He lost his dad to gang violence when he was just a kid, and was taken in by a local priest who has protected him from certain
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Quentin Tarrantino
Starring: Daryl Hannah | David Carradine | Lucy Liu | Uma Thurman
Bruce says: “**SPOILERS AHEAD** “To say that KILL BILL: VOL 2 is more fun than its predecessor is about the kindest thing I can say. It certainly isn’t better although I enjoyed it more for couple of reasons which I’ll
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Rating: 0.5 cats
Director: Simon Sauvé
Bruce says: “Being somewhat to the left of center, I have always held admiration for protesters. In the early 1990’s I discovered that protesters were not always what they seemed. Many of the protesters were what I would call professionals
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sue Brooks
Starring: Bill Young | Gotaro Tsunashima | Kate Atkinson | Lynnette Curran | Toni Collette | Yumiko Tanaka
Esmé says: “Well it made me cry till the back of my neck was soaked. I was irritated by Collette’s irritability at the beginning, but really moved by her passion in the middle and her grief at the end. I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Starring: Arieh Elias | Salim Dau | Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe
Chris says: “This colorful debut feature from Israeli director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz is a charming fable revising that well-worn tale of an innocent foreigner in a big city. Bright-eyed James (Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe), a young Christian minister, has traveled from his
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Fabrice Luchini | Gilbert Melki | Michel Duchaussoy | Sandrine Bonnaire
Bruce says: “Patrice Leconte is my favorite living director – judging by the most films getting a perfect score. He probably has the highest average number of cats as well, but that statistic will not be pursued at the moment
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Cillian Murphy | Colin Farrell | Colm Meany | Kerry Condon | Shirley Henderson
Diane says: “I haven’t innapropriately laughed so much at violence since HAPPINESS. INTERMISSION, about a dozen or so people in a working-class neighborhood of Dublin dealing with violence and broken hearts, is made strong by excellent pacing and editing and
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Per Fly
Starring: Ghita Nørby | Karina Skands | Lars Brygmann | Lisa Werlinder | Ulrich Thomsen
Bruce says: “THE INHERITANCE is a complicated psychological drama about responsibility, manipulation, perception vs. reality and the prioritization of values. It is a very bleak and disturbing film. What I had read prior to seeing the film described the basic
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Siu Fai Mak | Wai Keung Lau
Starring: Andy Lau | Anthony Chau-Sang Wong | Carina Lau | Daoming Chen | Edison Chen | Eric Tsang | Kelly Chen | Leon Lai | Sammi Cheng | Shawn Yue | Tony Leung
Bruce says: “IA3 is comprised of what is left over from the first two films in the INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy. It is somewhat of a Hong Kong MULHOLLAND DR. which is both curse and compliment. “As complicated as the first
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Siu Fai Mak | Wai Keung Lau
Starring: Anthony Wong | Edison Chen | Shawn Yue
Bruce says: “INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2 is a prequel to INFERNAL AFFAIRS. While it does seem a bit strange to treat the films this way, the technique is successful. IN IA2, Yan, the mole in the triads, and Ming, the mole
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Siu Fai Mak | Wai Keung Lau
Starring: Andy Lau | Anthony Wong | Tony Leung
Bruce says: “Every so often a film comes along that soars above others in its genre. Whether you categorize INFERNAL AFFAIRS as a thriller, action film or crime drama, it soars. Some critics bill this as a good cop/bad cop
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brad Bird
Starring: Craig T. Nelson | Holly Hunter | Samuel Jackson | Sarah Vowell
Tom says: “I am a big fan of both Pixar and Brad Bird’s feature-film debut (and what I consider to be America’s best animated film) THE IRON GIANT, so I was as excited as could be when I heard Pixar
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zak Penn
Starring: Kitana Baker | Werner Herzog | Zak Penn
Chris says: “INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS is a clever, often side-splitting little film. The less said about what it’s about, the better. All you need to know is that its lead ‘character’ is the always intriguing Werner Herzog, and it
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Danielle Arbid
Starring: Laudi Arbid | Marianne Feghali | Rawia Elchab
Bruce says: “Once known as the Paris of the Middle East, Beirut was ultimately reduced to rubble by fighting that began in the mid 70’s and continued for at least a decade. People went about their business during the day;
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ramona S. Diaz
Bruce says: “Which are your most memorable glamorous First Ladies? Eva Peron, Jackie Kennedy, Dewi Sukarno, Madame Chaing-Kai-Chek? These are all women of great beauty and style, who also happened to be extremely well-educated, very intelligent and had an incredible
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Gabriele Salvatore
Starring: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón | Dino Abbrescia | Giorgio Careccia
Bruce says: “My memories of Gabriele Salvatore’s MEDITERRANEO are hazy but my feelings about it remain perfectly clear. I wasn’t wild about it. It felt glossy and superficial. While Salvatore’s I’M NOT SCARED is an improvement, I’m still not a
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mark A. Lewis
Starring: Bill Croft | Chris Gauthier | Howard Siegel | John Callander | John F. Parker | Kurt Evans | Nicki Clyne | Paul Campbell | Peter Outerbridge
Bruce says: “ILL FATED, a very black tragicomedy, is clever enough to make an audience laugh and I admit I was laughing along with the others. But my laughter made me feel a bit dirty and somewhat of a lesser
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Matt Mahurin
Bruce says: “I LIKE KILLING FLIES is an engaging character study. Kenny Shopsin is an original. He is never without an opinion or ever at a loss for words. He refers to himself as an endangered species, a closet intellectual.
Read the review...Hukkle (Hungary; 75 min.) directed by: György Pálfistarring: Ferenc Bandi; Józsefné Rácz; József Forkas Bruce says: “HUKKLE has its own personality. In giving equal time to plants, animals, sounds, architectural details and humans György Pálfi has achieved something remarkable
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David O. Russell
Starring: Dustin Hoffman< Lily Tomlin | Isabelle Huppert | Jason Schwartzman | Jude Law | Mark Wahlberg | Naomi Watts
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Chris says: Pretty audacious for a studio comedy, even if it’s technically an indie studio. David O. Russell’s existential romp is a love-it-or-hate-it receptacle if I ever saw one. I loved it, but I’m skeptical as to how much it’ll
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