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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Daniel Stamm
Starring: Ashley Bell | Caleb Landry Jones | Iris Bahr | Louis Herthum | Patrick Fabian
Jason says: “I’ve got an issue with THE LAST EXORCISM, but it’s about as minor as one can be: It may be borne almost entirely out of my personal beliefs and one that only becomes an issue in the final
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yeo Joon Han
Starring: Hannah Lo | Jerrica Xufei Lai | Kee Thuan Chye | Lim Teik Leong | Peter Hugh Davis
Jason says: “With a name like SELL OUT!, you can probably guess what sort of satire Yeo Joon Han is going for in his movie, and a lot of it is absolutely going for easy targets. What makes it work
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Rob says: “Disney completists wary of purchasing costly bootlegs of Disney’s controversial 1946 classic, SONG OF THE SOUTH’, will find hope in the House of Mouse’s latest gem-packed ‘Disney Treasures’ collection. In the bonus features of the second of this
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Starring: François Arnaud | Michael Greyeyes | Pascale Bussières | Peter Outerbridge
Michael says: “Wiebke von Carolsfield takes her trademark introspective, exploration into the human psyche in a new direction with a quasi-suspense, lost in the wilderness tale starring Pascale Bussieres and Francois Arnaud. Anchored by an ethical conundrum that is left
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrius Blazevicius
Starring: Amelija Adomaitytė | Gintarė Parulytė | Indre Patkauskaite | Marius Repšys | Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė
Michael says: “Pitch-perfect film about a couple in Lithuania who enter a divorce just as the the Russia Ukraine War begins. The pair, and their young daughter, must navigate the social unrest even as their personal lives start to unravel.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Vincent Munier
Michael says: “Gorgeous documentary on so many level. Filmmaker Vincent Munier, spends time with his grandfather in a cabin in the Vosges forests in Eastern France creating extraordinary audio and video recordings of the wildlife that live there and their nighttime
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Walter Thompson-Hernandez
Starring: Bodhi Dell | Bre-Z | Danielle Brooks | J. Alphonse-Nicholson | Myles Bullock
Michael says: “After only being able to view the first three quarters of this film at Virtual Sundance, I got to watch the entire film at the Maine International Film Festival, and this time I just loved it. Truly beautiful
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Elizabeth Wolff | Liz Garbus
Vicki says: “GIVE ME THE BALL! is an inspiring documentary about the life of tennis great, Billie Jean King. While I knew about her famous ‘Battle of the Sexes’ match, I didn’t fully appreciate just how much she contributed to the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Helen Walsh
Starring: Barry Ward | Celyn Jones | Henry Lawfull | Liz White | Lorne MacFadye
Michael says: “English novelist turned filmmaker Helen Walsh, turns her eye on a middle-aged mussel raker living and working in a small conservative fishing village, married to his high-school sweetheart, raising a son who wants more than the ice that was
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jang Joon-hwan
Starring: Baek Yoon-shik | Hwang Jung-min | Lee Jae-yong | Lee Ju-hyeon | Shin Ha-kyun
Laks says: “I had only just seen the trailer (regrettably, because it gave faaaarrr to much away) for BUGONIA last night and was very grateful for your review soon after. I jumped straight of bed this morning and went straight
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