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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julia Loktev
Starring: Bidzina Gujabidze | Gael García Bernal | Hani Furstenberg
Thom says: “A loving couple arrive in Georgia (the country) and absorb the local culture. They hire a local guide (a guide in real life who had to be coerced into acting in his first and last film) to take
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Josh Radnor
Starring: Allison Janney | Elizabeth Olsen | Elizabeth Reaser | Josh Radnor | Kate Burton | Richard Jenkins
Michael says: “Written, directed, and starring Josh Radnor (of TV’s ‘How I Met Your Mother’) offers a film revolved around nostalgia, and looking back at your college days as they high point of your life. Jesse (Radnor) is living an
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gakuryu Ishii
Starring: Asato Iida | Eri Aoki | Hakka Shiraishi | Keisuke Hasebe | Mai Takahashi | Rin Takanashi | Yumika Tajima
Jason says: “It is, I suppose, unfair to judge this picture for not being conventional enough; it’s meant to be unusual and relatively plot-free. The question is, if you strip the basic building block of story away, what’s left? ISN’T
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hanan Kattan | Shamim Sarif
Bruce says: “Walls, barricades, checkpoints, barbed wire fences. These are prominent features in the West bank landscape and the areas that Palestinians must traverse to get from a refugee camp to a Palestinian village twenty five kilometers away. This fifteen
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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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