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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marielle Heller
Starring: Amy Adams | Arleigh Snowden | Emmett Snowden | Jessica Harper | Scoot McNairy
Brett says: “Both director Marielle Heller (THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL) and actor Amy Adams deliver yet again in NIGHTBITCH, a drama-comedy that goes dark at times to tear into the daunting expectations of motherhood. The film is a
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Director: Rod Blackhurst
Starring: Ethan Suplee | Josh Lucas | Kit Harington | Nora Zehetner | Scoot McNairy
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Tim Sutton
Starring: Colson Baker | Maddie Hasson | Megan Fox | Ruby Rose | Scoot McNairy
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Mike Barker
Starring: Chiara Aurelia | Connie Britton | Finn Wittrock | Mila Kunis | Scoot McNairy
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mike Mills
Starring: Deborah Strang | Gaby Hoffmann | Jaboukie Young-White | Joaquin Phoenix | Molly Webster | Scoot McNairy | Woody Norman
Brett says: “Director Mike Mills is up to Mike Mills things once again with another A24 home-run in C’MON C’MON. Show up for the enthralling dialogue, stay for the emotional tug-of-wars (yes, plural), and leave with a lump in your
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Director: Christopher Cantwell
Starring: Aaron Paul | Kristen Harris | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Scoot McNairy
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Michôd
Starring: David Field | Gillian Green | Guy Pearce | Robert Pattinson | Scoot McNairy | Tawanda Manyimo
Jason says: “I went into THE ROVER already thinking about how Australia seems to churn out more than its share of post-apocalyptic movies (post-‘collapse’ in this case), at least among the ones worth remembering. It’s probably at least partially convenience
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Starring: Carla Azar | Domhnall Gleeson | François Civil | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Michael Fassbender | Scoot McNairy
Jason says: “Not being a drinker, I’m probably appropriating a terrible metaphor here, but this movie strikes me as being like a certain kind of binge: You start out down, but soon the alcohol gets you and everything is crazy
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Scoot McNairy | Whitney Able
Jason says: “Movies like MONSTERS often get graded on a curve because of how much they do with relatively little. Gareth Edwards shot it guerilla-style and had to cram a fair amount of effects shots into a five or six-figure
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