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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.6
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Alia Shawkat | J.K. Simmons | Jake Lacy | Javier Bardem | Linda Lavin | Nicole Kidman | Nina Arianda | Tony Hale
Thom says: “I went into this thinking a million different things. Director Sorkin after making a huge impression as a writer and creator of monster television successes SPORTS NIGHT, THE NEWSROOM, & THE WEST WING, entered the director’s game with
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Director: Jamie Adams
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Chanel Cresswell | Charlotte Jo Hanbury | Dolly Wells | Eiza González | Nick Helm | Ruth Ollman | Tara Lee
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Clea DuVall
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Clea DuVall | Cobie Smulders | Jason Ritter | Melanie Lynskey | Natasha Lyonne
Michael says: “THE INTERVENTION also has a summary that might give you pause.Ruby and Peter join three other couples on a holiday weekend at a beautiful family home in the bayou, but discover that their friend Annie has engineered the
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Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Anton Yelchin | Callum Turner | David W.Thompson | Joe Cole | Mark Webber
Jeff says: “The next movie from director Jeremy Saulnier, responsible for 2013’s BLUE RUIN, GREEN ROOM once again throws a bunch of regular guys into horrific circumstances (heroin-manufacturing Nazi skinheads, homicidal dogs), and lets them improvise a way out (as
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Dakota Fanning | Jesse Eisenberg | Katherine Waterston | Peter Sarsgaard
Chris says: “One phrase my professors repeated throughout film school was ‘show, don’t tell.’ Seems like a pretty obvious tenet until you consider how many filmmakers do exactly the opposite, from Hollywood hacks to indie auteurs. Watching this film, I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ramaa Mosely
Starring: Alexis Bledel | Alia Shawkat | Ben Rappaport | Billy Magnussen | Juno Temple | Lucy Walters | Michael Angarano | Steve Park
Bruce says: “Ramaa Mosely describes THE BRASS TEAPOT as a film about consumerism, love, relationships, shifting values and magical realism. That pretty much covers it, except for the violence. More about that later. “John (Michael Angarano) and Alice (Juno Temple)
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Carrie Preston
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Anne Heche | Kate Rigg | Kellie Overby | Marcia DeBonis | Marylouise Burke | Miriam Shor
Bruce says: “Comparisons to BRIDESMAIDS are inevitable – another female buddy raunch film. That would be unfair. THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID is equally outrageous, but its sentiments are more genuine and its characters have greater depth. And while we’re at
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julian Farino
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Allison Janney | Catherine Keener | Hugh Laurie | Leighton Meester | Oliver Platt
Thom says: “Director Farino appears to have laid his groundwork on established, top-of-the-line, television series like ‘SEX & THE CITY,’ ‘BIG LOVE,’ ‘ROME,’ & ‘ENTOURAGE.’ Since a majority of the cast also cut their teeth on television series it only
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Flora Sigismondi
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Dakota Fanning | Kristen Stewart | Michael Shannon | Scout Taylor-Compton | Stella Maeve
TC says: “If you were around in the late 70s, you know the kind of sexist conditions that girls who wanted to rock out ran into. That’s the ultimate story behind THE RUNAWAYS, the story of the groundbreaking all-girl punk
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Drew Barrymore
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Drew Barrymore | Elliot Page (as Ellen Page) | Juliette Lewis | Kristen Wiig | Marcia Gay Harden
Thom says: “For all the world I thought this was going to be a box office smash due to the general nature of the story and the great big “Hollywood” presence of the production. But the public reception to the
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