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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1 cat
Director: Cédric Kahn
Starring: Carole Bouquet | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Vincent Deniard
Bruce says: “Some movies just rub you the wrong way. RED LIGHTS did that to me. Let me outline the plot. Antoine (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), a French milquetoast of a man who works in insurance, is married to Hélène (Carole Bouquet)
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Tjebbo Penning
Starring: Diana Kent | Eric van der Donk | Marcel Faber | Paul Freeman | Susan Lynch
Barbara says: “I didn’t like this movie at all despite some pretty scenery of the Irish countryside. I found it very disjointed and rather cruel. Paul Freeman has one expression throughout and the longer I watched him, the more I
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: C. Jay Cox
Starring: Amber Benson | Jacqueline Bisset | Mary Kay Place | Rebekah Johnson | Steve Sandvoss | Wes Ramsey
Hilary says: “When After School Specials on sexual orientation and religion collide with gay softcore porn. “I was hoping this would be funny-bad, but instead it was just bad. “The cats were so bored that they won’t even rate it.”
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
Starring: Helen Mirren | Robert Redford | Willem Dafoe
Hilary says: “Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford), a wealthy rental-car executive, is abducted by a disgruntled former employee, Arnold Mack (Willem Dafoe). Hayes’ wife Eileen (Helen Mirren) is soon surrounded by family and FBI agents, hoping for Wayne’s safe return. “Mirren’s
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia
Starring: Dritan Biba | Fernando Guillén Cuervo | Pepón Nieto
Bruce says: “My guess is the script of BULGARIAN LOVERS looked good on paper as it covers some interesting topics such as bisexuality and the culture gap between Eastern and Western Europeans; however, it does not fare well on the
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Alexa Vega | Antonio Banderas | Carla Gugino | Daryl Sabara | Elijah Wood | Ricardo Montalban
Howard says: “In this latest installment of the SPY KIDS franchise, it’s painfully obvious that the decline shown in SPY KIDS 2 is moving along faster than a mom unplugging your Xbox game. Where the original was fun, goofy and
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Robert Connolly
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | David Wenham | Sibylla Budd
Diane says: “Has no one commented on Robert Connolly’s THE BANK, for which we Have a screener? I was looking forward to the perf by Anthony LaPaglia (of the great LANTANA ensemble) in this purported thriller, but even he couldn’t
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Amanda Plummer | Bud Cort | Gloria Stuart | Jeremy Davies | Jimmy Smitts | Mel Gibson | Milla Jovovich | Peter Stormare | Tim Roth
Laura says: “Taken from a story idea by Bono and directed by Wim Wenders, THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL is really a mess of a movie. The cast includes Mel Gibson as an FBI man hired by a billionaire to investigate
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Cory McAlbee
Starring: Annie Golden | Cory McAbee | Greg Russell Cook | Rocco Sisto
Michael says: “The less said about this low-budget, low performance science fiction, spaghetti western, musical the better. What could have been a rollicking good time, was instead a poorly made, self-indulgent waste of time. This Midnight Madness special at the
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