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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Miranda July
Starring: Da'Vine Joy Rudolph | Debra Winger | Diana Maria Riva | Evan Rachel Wood | Gina Rodriguez | Mark Ivanir | Richard Jenkins
Michael says: “Many find Miranda July’s work a little too precious, or twee. It’s definitely unique and has a certain style of its own, but I’m a big admirer of her work. Her first feature film, ME AND YOU AND
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Xinyuan Zheng Lu
Starring: Dan Liu | Dong Kangning | Jin Jing | John Zhou | Ye Hongming | Zhou Chen
Michael says: “In a beautiful homage to the films of the French New Wave, first time feature director Zheng Lu, takes a melancholy look at a young woman returning home to divorced parents and wandering streets and the memories of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Phillip Youmans
Starring: Braelyn Kelly | Dominique McClellan | Karen Kaia Livers | Wendell Pierce
Michael says: “A harsh look at poverty in rural Louisiana, with shadowy imagery, poetic narration, and wrongs suggested, but not seen create the tapestry that is BURNING CANE. The film opens with a woman telling the story of her faithful,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Eugene Ashe
Starring: Aja Naomi King | Alano Miller | Eva Longoria | Jemima Kirke | Nnamdi Asomugha | Regé-Jean Page | Tessa Thompson | Tone Bell
Michael says: “Sylvie works at her father’s record store to kill time waiting for her fiancee to come back home from the Korean War in 1957, but all she really wants to do is break into TV. That is until she
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Van Maximilian Carlson
Starring: Ana Ortiz | Blake Michael | Edi Gathegi | Jacob Vargas | Jenny Gago | Martin Sheen | Tabitha Brown | Tim Abell
Michael says: “Alicia was called Princess by her father when she was a little girl. Now as a young teenager, her mother has left, her father suffered several mental issues due to PTSD suffered during the war in Iraq, she
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rikki Beadle Blair
Starring: Duncan MacInnes | Jay Brown | Ludvig Bonin | Lydia Toumazou | Michael Warburton | Rikki Beadle Blair | Sasha Frost | Stephen Hoo
Thom says: “Director Blair (responsible for the UK television series ‘Metrosexuality’) was asked to take a tour of young actors around the country to various colleges and give skits that would instruct the students about ‘gay’ people and this film
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Silas Howard
Starring: Amy Landecker | Ann Dowd | Claire Danes | Jim Parsons | Lee Aaron Rosen | Leo James Davis | Octavia Spencer | Priyanka Chopra
Thom says: “The extremely sensitive subject of transgender children is treated here with some understanding and compassion. Enough so that some insensitive bastard criticizing on Ratings and Reviews for New Movies and TV Shows – IMDb wrote that the educators
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tara Miele
Starring: Aimee Carrero | Beth Grant | Diego Luna | Sienna Miller | Tory Kittles
Diane says: “I think I must be the target audience for WANDER DARKLY. I was completely sucked into every emotion in this chameleonic romance/psychological thriller that has touches of horror and dry humor. The two attractive leads don’t hurt. “LA couple
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Billy Postelthwaite | Colin Firth | Daniel Mays | Dean-Charles Chapman | George MacKay | Pip Carter
Thom says: “This highly-praised WWII film by the talented Mendes (AMERICAN BEAUTY) is especially impressive with its technical gifts following two British soldiers as they navigate a rough battle path trying to avoid bombs, bullets, & accidents hoping to deliver
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Pietro Marcello
Starring: Jessica Cressy | Luca Marinelli | Marco Leonardi | Vincenzo Nemolato
Chris says: “A lot to ponder here, from the blending of time periods to the sudden leaps in narrative, which thrill just as often as they confuse. Luca Marinelli, who resembles Jake Gyllenhaal but kind of turns into Christian Bale
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