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Troll Hunter (2011)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: André Øvredal
Starring: Glenn Erland Tosterud | Johanna Mørck | Otto Jespersen | Tomas Alf Larsen | Urmila Berg-Domaas

Scot says: “TROLL HUNTER, released in 2010 in Norway but 2011 in the US, represents a fine evolution of the ‘found footage’ fictional narrative style most famously exploited by THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. It’s not a new

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Chris says: “Many book-to-film adaptations fail because they aren’t faithful enough, but just as often they’re too literal to succeed as cinema. In struggling to capture a book’s essence, they adhere closely to what the prose dictates but subsequently feel

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Stake Land (2011)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jim Mickle
Starring: Bonnie Dennison | Connor Paolo | Danielle Harris | Kelly McGillis | Michael Cerveris

Jason says:v”Jim Mickle’s first feature (also with co-writer/star Nick Damici), MULBERRY STREET, was a low-budget and do-it-yourself as you’re going to see, and pretty impressive even when not grading on that sort of curve. STAKE LAND doesn’t quite represent a

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Sons of Perdition (2011)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jennilyn Merten | Tyler Measom

Jason says: “Most of the time, when the modern westerner encounters or hears of polygamy, it’s an individual case, and thus he or she thinks about the individual psychology involved. Make it more commonplace, though, and a numbers issue emerges:

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Point Blank (2011)

Jason says: “POINT BLANK is not a French remake of the classic 1967 John Boorman flick that starred Lee Marvin; that would require being mean down to its very bones, and this one is a shade or two warmer than

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Poetry (2011)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Starring: Da-wit Lee | Hira Kim | Joeng-hie Yun | Nae-sang Ahn | Yong-taek Kim

Ibad says: “POETRY is a fascinating and often heartbreaking story focusing around an older woman desperate for fulfillment, vision, and control over her thoughts and memories. At the center of it is a behemoth of a performance by Jeong-he Yoon,

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The Ides of March (2011)

Thom says: “Governor Mike Morris (Clooney) is running hot & hard for his party’s Presidential candidacy and the latest crucial primary state is Ohio. His closest competitor is Senator Pullman. Morris’ hot-shot campaign manager Paul Zara (Hoffman in another spot-on

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On the Ice (2012)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Starring: Adamina Kerr | Frank Qutuq Irelan | John Miller | Josiah Patkotak

Jason says: “Thrillers like ON THE ICE are traditionally set among shadows and night, with the lines and crags on the actors’ faces all the backstory needed to explain how they wound up in such a spot. Of course, you

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I Will Follow (2011)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ava DuVernay
Starring: Michole Briana White | Omari Hardwick | Salli Richardson-Whitfield | Tracie Thoms

Jason says: “Ava DuVernay’s I WILL FOLLOW is a fairly traditional independent film of a certain type: A close, quiet examination of family ties and other relationships, the sort made with a small budget, a single location, and the desire

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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hark Tsui
Starring: Andy Lau | Bingbing Li | Carina Lau | Chao Deng | Tony Leung Ka-fai

Jason says: “DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME hits a lot of my sweet spots – it can be described as a Chinese martial-arts take on Sherlock Holmes, with a blockbuster budget, Tsui Hark directing with abandon,

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