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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Amber Heard | Danielle Panabaker | Laura-Leigh | Marnie Gummer
Thom says: “Over the years director Carpenter has certainly established some credibility in the B-movie category (HALLOWEEN (1978), ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE FOG (1980), THE THING (1982), STARMAN) although in the past few years his reputation has slightly faltered.
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Director: Usama Alshaibi
Starring: Dejan Mircea | Manal Kara | Molly Plunk
Jason says: “Congratulations, Usama Alshaibi. You’ve managed to make spiritualism, Islamic mythology, and kinky sex boring in one brief eighty-minute feature. That’s quite an impressive accomplishment, considering that most of the movie doesn’t seem interested in accomplishing much of anything.
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Director: Caleb Emerson
Starring: Aramis Sartorio | Brett Hundley | David Reynolds | Gia Paloma | Thea Martin
Jason says: “It’s not uncommon for critics to rate films they see at a festival a little higher than those they see elsewhere, in part because the discussions with the filmmakers afterward help forge a personal connection and often cast
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Kristin Canty
Thom says: “We can’t all be interested in everything, right? This documentary is the story of food clubs and farm co-operatives all over the United States that have been raided by local, state, and the federal government that reads more
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Richard Weiss
Starring: Dennis Duggan | Genevieve Antaky | Julia Sanford | Pamela Wycliffe | Stan Weston
Jason says: “As remarkably inept as THE BOOK is, I was still willing to give it a recommendation of the ‘guilty pleasure’ variety, almost entirely for its commitment to its retro-bizarre style. A man can only take so much, though,
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Guoqiang Tang | Jackie Chan | Li Zhang | Tao Hai | Wei Li
Starring: Bingbing Li | Jackie Chan | Jaycee Chan | Joan Chen | Winston Chao
Jason says: “Jackie Chan’s hundredth movie commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the revolution that brought down the Qing Dynasty, and both of these events seem to deserve something better for commemoration than this lifeless history lecture. “1911 and 1912, for
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Adam Bousdoukos | Anna Bederke | Birol Ünel | Lukas Gregorowicz | Moritz Bliebtreu | Pheline Roggan
Bruce says: “Fatih Akin’s first international hit HEAD-ON was an augury of great things to come. Certainly the Chlotrudis Best Picture, THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, bore out any such theories of predication regarding his work. Along comes SOUL KITCHEN which,
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Michael Kallio
Starring: Bart Williams | Bob Young | Colleen Nash | Jack White | Michael East | Pete LaDuke
Jason says: “This shit needs to stop. “Shouldn’t young filmmakers with no money have moved on from spoofing bad 1950s sci-fi by now? It’s too easy a target if the intent is to skewer, and if the goal is to
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Matias Armand Jordal
Starring: Evy Kasseth Røsten | Fridtjov Såheim | Jonathan Espolin | Mona Grenne | Odin Waage
Thom says: “This dreary, little entry from Norway was incredibly frustrating. A ‘happy’ family is torn asunder when the mother is killed by a car. The father and son are both so dreadfully unlikable that I had no interest at
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Director: Matt Bissonnette
Starring: Adam Scott | Gale Harold | Greg Dulli | Joel Bissonnette | Rachael Santhon | Robin Tunney
Thom says: “Another mediocre Canadian entry that had no right to be included at TIFF. Two mismatched brothers drive endlessly around a detached Los Angeles searching for the lost love of one of the boys. One is a recovering drug-addict,
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