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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
Starring: Asami Mizukawa | Dai Watanabe | Motoki Fukami | Tomohisa Yuge
Jason says: “It’s tough not to get just a little excited during the opening sequence of HIGANJIMA, because it makes a thoroughly enjoyable statement: That putting a stake through a vampire’s heart is for people who aren’t truly committed to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard | Jamie Bell | Richard Madden | Taron Egerton
Thom says: “This is a tough film for me to review because although I’ve been a great lover of music throughout my life I never liked Elton John. Over the years he only had a minuscule number of songs I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Shola Amoo
Starring: Denise Black | Gbemisola Ikumelo | Nicholas Pinnock
Michael says: “THE LAST TREE is a coming-of-age story about a Nigerian-born boy named Femi who is growing up in England. For reasons we are not entirely certain of, Femi spends his early years in foster care with a nurturing
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Karen Maines
Starring: Alisha Boe | Francesca Reale | Natalia Dyer | Susan Blackwell | Timothy Simons | Wolfgang Novogratz
Chris says: “As someone who had to attend a Catholic school retreat or two as a teen, what’s depicted here feels more heightened and strident than my own experiences, but I was so entertained by Timothy Simons as a bearded
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Chris says: “An account of a treacherous film shoot, a deep dive into Aboriginal customs and some ancient animal feces–just another Herzog doc, better than his Gorbachev one, not as stirring as the volcano one. 3.5 cats“
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Benjamin Kasulke
Starring: Dylan Sprouse | Hannah Marks | Liana Liberato | Luke Spencer Roberts
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Starring: Austin Stowell | Denis O'Hare | Elizabeth Marvel | Haley Bennett
Diane says: “SWALLOW is nominated for Best Cinematography. “For good or ill, I happened to see SWALLOW after finally watching SAFE, Todd Haynes’ film from 1995. There were so many similarities–in characters, scenes, design–that I thought it might be a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alan Yang
Starring: Christine Ko | Fiona Fu | Hong-Chi Lee | Joan Chen | Tzi Ma
Michael says: “I encountered three instances in the past month, in movies, or books, where someone tells a child: “Never let them see you cry,” or some BS like that. It’s usually well-meaning, and sometimes even serves the character well
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Rating: 3.375 | 3.5 cats
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Starring: Agustí Villaronga | Catrinel Marlon | Rodica Lazar | Vlad Ivanov
Jeffrey says: “This Buried Treasure-eligible piece from Romanian director, Porumboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST, THE TREASURE), is billed as a heist movie, but, in its gritty meditation on corruption, bears little resemblance to its glossy Hollywood counterparts. Cristi (Vlad Ivanov)
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Richard Stanley
Starring: Elliot Knight | Joely Richardson | Madeleine Arthur | Nicholas Cage
Jeffrey says: “I wouldn’t nominate this for anything, but if you’re in the mood for a cheesy slice of Lovecraft-inspired horror, this will fill the bill. Nicolas Cage plays Nathan, a typically dotty Cage character. He’s moved his family out
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