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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats | 4.25 cats
Director: Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring: Catherine Terracini | Jay Gallagher | Keith Agius | Leon Burchill | Meganne West
Jason says: “It’s no bad thing, I say, that WYRMWOOD feels like a season’s worth of an eventful TV series packed into an hour and a half; it’s an exhausting ride at times, but there’s not ten or fifteen minutes
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ringo Lam
Starring: Joseph Chang Hsiau-chuen | Louis Koo | Shawn Yue Man-ick | Tong Liya | Yuen Qiu
Jason says: “Welcome back Ringo Lam, a director who has been absent from the Hong Kong movie scene for too long, but who doesn’t really seem to have missed a beat with this neon-noir. In many ways, Hong Kong cinemas
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Madsen
Jason says: “THE VISIT is apparently meant to be the second in a thematic trilogy of documentaries by Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen, and I’m curious what grand-scaled idea will round them out. I hope it’s something a little more like
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: David Felix Sutcliffe | Lyric R. Cabral
Jason says: “I suspect that many watching (T)ERROR, even with plentiful assurances to the contrary, will be expecting that, by the end, a curtain will be pulled back to reveal the film as fictitious, heavy on re-enactments, or some other
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Partho Sen-Gupta
Starring: Adil Hussain | Esha Amiani | Gulnaaz Ansari | Komal Gupta | Tannishta Chatterjee
Jason says: “Writer/director Partho Sen-Gupta takes certain things very literally in SUNRISE but it’s kind of a delight when he does, because the effect is nifty and exhilarating in the midst of a film that can use a bit of
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Sion Sono
Starring: Erika Sawajiri | Gou Ayano | Nobuaki Kaneko | Takayuki Yamada | Yusuke Iseya
Jason says: “Like a lot of movies adapted from long-running manga, SHINJUKU SWAN shows a lot of telltale signs of screenwriters Rikiya Mizushima and OsamuSuzuki trying to cram a lot of storylines and fan-favorite characters into a couple hours. It’s
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Adrian Garcia Bogliano
Jason says: “A nifty thing about SCHERZO DIABOLICO: It feels like a black comedy for much of its running time, but you’ll likely struggle to remember any actual jokes afterward. The comedy is almost entirely from the discomfort and absurdity
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Keishi Otomi
Jason says: “RUROUNI KENSHIN: KYOTO INFERNO and RUROUNI KENSHIN: THE LEGEND ENDS were released within a month and a half of each other in Japan, emphasizing how they function more as a two-part sequel to 2012’s first film than as
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lee Won-suk
Jason says: “I’ve been looking to make a ‘costume drama’ joke about this film ever since I first heard of it, but it initially didn’t quite seem appropriate – for the first half or so, this is mainly a very
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Alain Chabat | Elodie Bouchez | John Glover | Jon Hader | Jonathan Lambert | Kyla Kenedy
Jason says: “A sad thing about how peculiar movies like those made by Quentin Dupieux are likely to be more readily available to a larger audience via the various on-demand services is that I’m certain that, at some point while
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