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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Patricio Valladares
Starring: Carolina Escobar | Daniel Antivilio | Jose Hernandez | Serge Francois | Siboney Lo
Jason says: “The original Chilean version of HIDDEN IN THE WOODS (an English-language remake featuring Michael Biehn from the same director is already in pre-production) certainly lives up to its introduction as a nasty, violent piece of work, and filmmaker
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Starring: Apisit Opasaimlikit | Chanakporn Sayoungkul | Kiat Punpiputt | Nopachai Chaiyanam | Sirin Horwang
Bruce says: “***SPOILERS*** “Pen-ek Ratanaurang‘s HEADSHOT, a film about a cop turned hit man, is a huge disappointment. It is well-made and well-acted and the premise is better-than-average; but the script adds little to what is an hour and one
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Daniel Algrant
Starring: Ben Rosenfield | Frank Wood | Ilana Levine | Imogen Poots | Norbert Leo Butz | Penn Badgley | William Sadler
Bruce says: “Folk rock artist Tim Buckley died in 1975 from an accidental drug overdose. His only child was Jeff Buckley who he saw only twice in his life, as an infant and as a seven year old when Jeff
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Josh Reed
Starring: Damien Freeleagus | Krew Boylan | Lindsay Farris | Rebekah Foord | Wil Traval | Zoe Tuckwell-Smith
Jason says: “I suspect that the script for PRIMAL was, even more than most horror movies, dictated by resources – they could get this location for filming, a little bit of simple CGI, a reasonably straightforward make-up job for every
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ya-che Yang
Starring: Chang Hsiao-chuan | Gwei Lun-mei | Rhydian Vaughan
Jason says: “By odd happenstance, GIRLFRIEND BOYFRIEND (GF*BF, by the title appearing on-screen) is the second Taiwanese film I’ve seen in as many weeks to start its characters in high school and follow them to the present, and it turns
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ana Piterbarg
Starring: Daniel Fanego | Javier Godino | Oscar Alegre | Sofia Gala | Soledad Villamil | Viggo Mortensen
Thom says: “Viggo plays twin brothers Agustin (a respected pediatrician who’s withdrawn from the world) and Pedro (a backwater lowlife from the Tigre Delta who is dying of cancer as well as being involved with a nasty murder). Pedro busts
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julio Hérnandez Cordón
Starring: Fernanda del Nido | Juan de Dios Larraín | Julio Hernández Cordón | Pamela Guinea
Bruce says: “As in many South and Central American countries war has ravaged the population and the environment. In Guatemala, it was an unfair war in which the poor people of the country suffered immeasurably. After the war ended women
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Steve Rash
Starring: Brandon Routh | Chelsea Ricketts | Crystal Allen | Gil Birmingham | Michael Hudson
Jason says: “CROOKED ARROWS is a button-pushing sports movie notable for both the sport being played (lacrosse) and the underdog school (a Native American nation in upstate New York). It’s likely to be far from the best sports movie or
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Carlos Sorin
Starring: Alejandro Javier Bures | Emma Jayne Carlton | Gisela Aringoli | Maria Abadi | Norma Argentina
Bruce says: “THE CAT VANISHES was the film I was most looking forward to at the 2012 Miami International Film Festival. It should probably surprise no one that it was my least favorite – that’s how things work sometimes. Too
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Grant James | Jack Black | Matthew McConaughey | Rick Dial | Shirley MacLaine
Chris says: “This ripped-from-the-headlines tale of a meek funeral director who murders a wealthy, irascible widow is meant to play like ‘Midnight in the garden of small town east Texas’. While Austinite Richard Linklater is the right director for the
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