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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: David Bradley | Jesse Akele | Jessica Baglow | Paul Butterworth | Ray Burnet
Brett says: “A few scenes into ALLELUJAH, it might become apparent that this could function as a stage play, and—of course—that is because it is actually based on a stage play. The film is heavily reliant upon the performances of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Jamie Hooper
Starring: David Horovitch | Jane Lowe | Phillipa Peak | Riann Steele | Sophie Thompson | Taliyah Blair
Brett says: “With a rather forgettable title, the plot of this supernatural thriller is also at risk of being lost in the shuffle of other films in this shared horror sub-genre. Set in the 1980s with occasional flashbacks, a 30-something granddaughter
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Elise Finnerty
Starring: Elise Finnerty | Estelle Girard Parks | Jenna Rose Sander | Nathan Wallace | Samuel Dunning
Brett says: “This debut feature from director Elise Finnerty is an elevated genre film that leans into the familiar folk horror tradition of tying present to pagan pasts. As the title implies, herein lies a new take on the witchcraft
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Starring: Achouackh Abakar Souleymane | Briya Gomdigue | Hadje Fatime N'Goua | Rihane Khalil Alio | Saleh Sambo | Youssouf Djaoro
Brett says: “The film LINGUI, translated as ‘The Sacred Bond(s),’ is a culturally compelling work at the very least. It is a story of a single mother and her 15-year old daughter in Chad who are caught in a web
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Samuel Kay Forrest
Starring: Andriana Manfredi | Beatrix Michelet | Enzo de Liguoro | Ian Loughran | Javier Taboada | Jurjen van Nes | Marie Céline Yildirim | Samuel Kay Forrest
Michael says: “After appearing in a handful of shorts and supporting parts in low-budget features, actor Samuel Kay Forrest decided to produce, write, and direct his own film. In HIPBEAT, a love letter to the modern-day Berlin for young people,
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Akim Tamiroff | Anna Karina | Eddie Constantine
Michael says: “It was about 30 minutes into ALPHAVILLE when I realized I don’t think I like Godard’s films. Now I’ve only seen two, this one and BREATHLESS, so I am still open to more (BAND OF OUTSIDERS and VIVRE
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Curt May | Dennis Franz | John Aquino | John Lithgow | John McMartin | John Travolta | Nancy Allen | Peter Boyden
Michael says: “After enjoying Antonioni’s BLOW-UP, I thought it might be fun to check out BLOW OUT, Brian De Palma’s nod to that classic. In the 1966 film about a photographer who inadvertently captures a possible murder while king pictures of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Blair Brown | Bob Balaban | Charles Haid | Drew Barrymore | Miguel Godreau | Thaao Penghlis | William Hurt
Michael says: “From his crazed musicals (TOMMY; THE BOY FRIEND) to his hallucinogenic movies (GOTHIC; THE RAINBOW; LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM) I knew what I was getting into when I decided to watch ALTERED STATES. I’ve always been wary,
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ena Sendijarevic
Starring: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic | Ernad Prnjavorac | Jasna Djuricic | Lazar Dragojevic | Mirsad Tuka | Sanja Buric | Sara Luna Zoric
Michael says: “It sounded so interesting. A young woman leaves her mother’s home in the Netherlands where she was raised, to return to her native Bosnia and seek out a father that she barely remembered. Despite a solid performance by
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Isaac Rathé
Starring: Aaron Hrastovec | Leo Yako | Lucas Tommy Youkhana
Brett says: “A do-it-yourself thriller-comedy that throws back to Spielberg’s made-for-television DUEL, this film is a microscopic budget first feature that tosses out the tractor-trailer vs. automobile and inserts a motorboat and kayak instead. The absurdity of that concept is
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