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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ziyang Zhou
Starring: Tumen | Xuan Huang | Zishan Yang
Michael says: “Easy money and investments gone wrong power this downward spiral of a film about Yang Hua, a young man flexing his entrepreneurial spirit to make some big money. His first plan, a dinosaur park on the outskirts of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Will Bakke
Starring: Alejandro Rose-Garcia | Bill Wise | C. Bailey Werner | Courtney Parchman | Jacob Artist | Johanna Braddy | Stephanie Hunt
Michael says: “I’m not really sure what prompted me to watch this film, which basically tells three intertwined stories about guests at a college house party in Austin, TX. I guess I was swayed by some of the positive reviews
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Grímur Hákonarson
Starring: Alfrun Rose | Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir | Hannes Óli Ágústsson | Sigurður Sigurjónsson | Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson | Þorsteinn Bachmann
Bob says: “A dairy farmer in a rural county of Iceland is sinking deeper into debt, and finds out that her husband, under duress, had been ratting out his neighbors when they went behind the back of the local farm
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paul Negoescu
Starring: Alexandru Papadopol | Andi Vasluianu | Dorian Boguta | Dragos Bucur | Serban Pavlu
Diane says: “Romanian comedy TWO LOTTERY TICKETS (Paul Negoescu, director) was good for a post-Icelandic-film palate cleanser. A suburban trio of bumbling stooges gets in over their naive heads as they follow a trail to find a misplaced winning ticket. ‘We
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Stacie Passon
Starring: Alexandra Daddario | Anna Nugent | Crispin Glover | Ian Toner | Joanne Crawford | Paula Malcomson | Peter Coonan | Sebastian Stan | Taissa Farmiga
Michael says: “I must meekly confess that I watched this curious modern gothic film adapted from a Shirley Jackson tale because I have developed a bit of a crush on Sebastian Stan (The Winter Solder from the Marvel Universe). However,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Ellora Torchia | Hayley Squires | Joel Fry | John Hollingworth | Mark Monero | Reece Shearsmith
Brett says: “From Director Ben Wheatley comes this eerie tale whose paranoia and alarm runs parallel to the global COVID-19 pandemic, but as the viewer soon discovers, this is no “Coronavirus: The Movie.” “After an establishing montage of the haunting,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nikole Beckwith
Starring: Bianca Lopez | Ed Helms | Fred Melamed | Nora Dunn | Patti Harrison | Rosalind Chao | Tig Notaro | Timm Sharp | Vivian Gill
Chris says: “Worth watching for Ed Helms and Patti Harrison, both of whom have rarely been more understated; however, the narrative might’ve benefited from being less understated, as much insight as it had on the practice of surrogacy. 3 cats“
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Maria Sødahl
Starring: Alfred Vatne | Andrea Bræin Hovig | Daniel Storm Forthun Sandbye | Eirik Hallert | Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne | Steinar Klouman Hallert | Stellan Skarsgård
Diane says: “First, nobody warned me that my old heartthrob Stellan Skarsgård had aged so much. Second, I was put off by the elegant lifestyle of this Oslo Brady Bunch, but that’s just me. Director and writer Maria Sødahl draws from
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Starring: Annie Mumolo | Damon Wayans Jr. | Fortune Feimster | Jamie Dornan | Kristen Wiig | Reyn Doi | Vanessa Bayer | Wendi McLendon-Covey
Jeff says: “I mean, a singing crab that sounds like Morgan Freeman? C’mon, what’s not to like?” Philip says: “There are a couple of great belly laughs, a lot of ho-hum stupid American comedy moments, but I made it
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Viggo Mortensen
Starring: Carina Battrick | Hannah Gross | Lance Henriksen | Laura Linney | Sverrir Gudnason | Terry Chen | Viggo Mortensen
Michael says: “In what must surely be a very personal story, Viggo Mortenson’s directorial debut, which he also wrote, tackles the thorny relationship between an aging, abusive father now suffering from dementia, and his adult, gay son. John lives a
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