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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Starring: Dylan Torrell | Jack Farthing | Pep Ambròs | Sam Riley | Stacy Martin
Eliza says: “ISLANDS, directed by Jan-Ole Gerster, centers around Tom, a tennis coach working at an all inclusive resort in the Canary Islands. The entirety of the film is a course in numerology- From the name of the hotel Tres
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Director: Jamie Adams
Starring: aley Bennett | Marisa Abela | Sam Riley
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jaume Balagueró
Starring: Astrid Bergès-Frisbey | Axel Stein | Emilio Gutiérrez Caba | Famke Janssen | Freddie Highmore | Jose Coronado | Liam Cunningham | Luis Tosar | Sam Riley
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Carl Hunter
Starring: Alice Lowe | Bill Nighy | Jenny Agutter | Sam Riley
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Alice Braga | Amy Adams | Elisabeth Moss | Garrett Hedlund | Kristen Stewart | Sam Riley | Tom Sturridge
Chris says: “The best one can say about this, the first filmed version of Jack Kerouac’s seminal 1957 novel is that it’s not embarrassing. If that sounds like faint praise, it aptly mirrors the film’s modest ambitions. Rather than transform
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rowan Joffe
Starring: Andrea Riseborough | Helen Mirren | John Hurt | Philip Davis | Sam Riley
Thom says: “This absorbing adaptation of the great Graham Greene (how could he have not won the Nobel prize is a mystery) novel is a remake of a 1947 entry which I haven’t seen which starred the young Richard Attenborough.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Alexandra Maria Lara | Harry Treadaway | James Anthony Pearson | Joe Anderson | Sam Riley | Samantha Morton
Chris says: “Why did Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis hang himself at the age of 23? Was it misery brought on by marital infidelity, an uneasy mixture of meds prescribed for his epilepsy, stress at the onset of fame, or
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