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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jordan Melamed
Starring: Don Cheadle | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Michael Bacall | Sara Rivas | Zooey Deschanel
Laura says: “Tyro director Jordan Melamed gets natural and perceptive work from a cast comprised of amateurs and professionals. They mine their own truths improvising their way around actors Michael Bacall and Blayne Weaver’s script despite some genre cliches. However,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Angela Christlieb | Stephen Kijak
Michael says: “One might think that the docuemntary CINEMANIA might have something to do with people similar to some Chlotrudis members we all know. One would be WRONG! CINEMANIA is a documentary examining the rather extreme and bizarre lives of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Daryl Hannah | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Marcia Gay Harden | Mary Steenburgen | Rota Moreno | Susan Lynch | Vanessa Martinez
Michael says: “Maverick independent filmmaker John Sayles takes a look at the different paths open to children in modern-day Mexico in CASA DE LOS BABYS, a film that offers no answers, but highlights some terrific acting. The film is centered
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring: Bruce Campbell | Ossie Davis
Howard says: “Don Coscarelli, writer and director of BUBBA HO-TEP, has his heroes. It’s quite obvious after seeing his ode to Elvis and JFK that Coscarelli wanted to give the two men a chance to make up for alleged past
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
Starring: Bahman Ghobadi | Behnaz Jafari | Said Mohamadi
Michael says: “The Iranian film BLACKBOARDS is certainly a strong piece of filmmaking from a woman director, a rarity in Iran. The stunning, desolate opening shots of BLACKBOARDS are undeniable in their power and reeled me in immediately, yet the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Connie Nielsen | John Travolta | Samuel L. Jackson | Timothy Daly
Robin says: “It’s RASHOMON meets THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER as John Travolta reprises a role similar to his in the latter film as helmer McTiernan drives this action vehicle that begins with two different tellings about a deadly event that smacks
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Arik Kaplun
Starring: Evelyn Kaplun | Mosko Alkalai | Nir Levy | Shmil Ben Ari
Diane says: “Director Arik Kaplun, himself a Russian immigrant to Israel, looks at the hurdles faced by Russian immigrants in Tel Aviv. The Gulf War looms, a pregnant and penniless woman is abandoned by her husband, conflicts over money lead
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Catherine McCormack | Elizabeth Hurley | Josh Lucas | Sarah Polley | Sean Penn
Michael says: “Completed in 2000, this schizophrenic film starring Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, Sarah Polley and Catherine McCormack is finally being released this fall. Based on a best-selling Anita Shreve novel, and directed by action lenser Bigelow (NEAR DARK, POINT
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Joel Zwick
Starring: Andrea Martin | John Corbett | Lainie Kazan | Michael Constantine | Nia Vardalos
Ellen says: “For some reason I feel guilty about seeing MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING. On some level it seems mainstream and I haven’t seen anyone else post about it. But, I will announce here that I thoroughly enjoyed the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gianni Amelio
Starring: Enrico Lo Verso | Francesco Giuffrida | Rosaria Danzè
Diane says: “I went to see this one because I loved Gianni Amelio’s 1994 LAMERICA–to jog your memory, two Italians go to Albania to take advantage of government money for new businesses and it ends miserably, miserably. “THE WAY WE
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