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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Clive Owen; Charlotte Rampling; Malcolm McDowell | Jamie Foreman | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Ken Stott | Sylvia Syms

Bruce says: “Director Mike Hodges and Clive Owen scored critical raves for CROUPIER. I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD fuels the argument that lightening rarely strikes twice in the same place. Owen plays Will Graham who is a ‘retired’ mobster who

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Rick (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Curtiss Clayton
Starring: Aaron Standford | Agnes Bruckner | Bill Pullman | Sandra Oh

Chris says: “In this modern-day take on Verdi’s 16th century opera ‘Rigoletto.’ Rick O’Lette (Bill Pullman) is a rotten jerk of a corporate middle manager. He has an even more obnoxious boss half his age (Aaron Stanford) who unknowingly pursues

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The Passion of the Christ (2004)

Bob says: “Long story short: I didn’t like or appreciate anything about this movie. “Long story relatively long: I’m leaving out the anti-Semitism question (I don’t take that stuff personally, and besides, it’s all true. My uncle Moshe did it)

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Ill Fated (2004)

Bruce says: “ILL FATED, a very black tragicomedy, is clever enough to make an audience laugh and I admit I was laughing along with the others. But my laughter made me feel a bit dirty and somewhat of a lesser

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A Dirty Shame (2004)

Chris says: “A DIRTY SHAME is an intermittently amusing but generally trite film. NC-17 rating and all, I wasn’t expecting John Waters to make another PINK FLAMINGOS, but there’s absolutely nothing shocking or subversive going on here. Like every other

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The Definition of Insanity (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Frank Matter | Robert Margolis
Starring: Frank Krias | Kelli Barnett | Robert Margolis

Bruce says: “This bleak piece of filmmaking is the story of Robert, an unemployed actor who has been making the rounds in New York for a decade or so. He has a childish optimism that keeps him going in spite

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Baadasssss! (2004)

Hilary says: “BAADASSSSS! is Mario Van Peebles’ biopic of his father Melvin’s attempt to make his groundbreaking film SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAAD ASSSSS SONG (1971), the first of the ‘blaxploitation’ genre. “There are some interesting elements to the story as it

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AKA (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Duncan Roy
Starring: Diana Quick | George Asprey | Lindsey Coulson | Matthew Leitch

Bruce says: “This film is partially autobiographical, for the director, Duncan Roy, actually served a prison sentence for impersonating the son of an aristocrat. In AKA, the central character, an eighteen year old working class boy, goes by the name

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Prey for Rock & Roll (2003)

Bob says: “I came out of PREY thinking it was better than I’d expected. Frankly, I hadn’t expected much, so better than I expected is not so hot. But it’s fading for me already. “The film doesn’t go very far

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Out of Time (2003)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Carl Franklin
Starring: Denzel Washington | Eva Mendes | Sanaa Lathan

Bob G. says: “Very average cop-drama that aside from being marvelously shot and competently acted, offers up nothing of note either script-wise or in the way of style. Denzel dodges bullets and hangs from balconies with the best of ’em,

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