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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jo Sung-hee
Starring: Jang Young-nam | Park Bo-young | Song Joong-ki | Yoo Yeon-seok
Kyle says: “The title is misleading only if your notion of ‘werewolf’ is defined by the usually unclad muscular body of Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black, and CGI transformations into a huge snarling but protective wolf, in THE TWILIGHT SAGA
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rowan Athale
Starring: Gerard Kearns | Iwan Rheon | Luke Treadway | Neil Maskell | Timothy Spall | Vanessa Kirby
Jason says: “What, exactly, is the difference be ween a crime movie and a caper movie? Scale? The intricacy of the plan? Do the characters being a notch more charming or less working-class change the classification? Or is this just
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Wingard | Eduardo Sánchez | Gareth Huw Evans | Gregg Hale | Jason Eisner | Simon Barrett | Timo Tjahjanto
Starring: Adam Wingard | Hannah Hughes | Kelsey Abbot | Lawrence Michael Levine | Mindy Robinson
Jason says: “To call last year’s V/H/S uneven would be generous; while it managed ‘pretty good’ in a couple of segments, it was awful in more. Still, the good thing about commercially successful anthology films is that sequels need not
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Maiken Baird | Michelle Major
Bruce says: “Disclaimer: I am a huge tennis fan and, more specifically, a great fan of the Williams sisters. With that in mind, I hope that I am objective in reviewing VENUS AND SERENA, a documentary about the two women.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kristina Buozyte
Starring: Jurga Jutaite | Marius Jampolskis | Martina Jablonskyte | Rudolfas Jansonas | Vytautas Kaniusonis
Jason says: “I suspect that every film director would like to make a film that takes place inside dreams at some point – it’s free reign to create imaginative visuals, dig right into a character’s subconscious, and make the occasional
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Juan Solanas
Starring: Holly Uloth | James Kidnie | Jim Sturgess | Kirsten Dunst | Timothy Spall
Jason says: “I admit, you can’t honestly look at Juan Solanas’s UPSIDE DOWN and call the writing much other than a mess – there really isn’t one thing in this movie that makes sense. But, on the other hand, I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Hikari Mitsushima | Momoko Tanabe | Takeru Shibuya | Tamaki Ogawa | Teruyuki Kagawa
Jason says: “TORMENTED is not a bad title for this particular Takashi Shimizu movie – it’s generic, sure, but it does reflect some of what’s going on. I must admit to favoring its original title, RABBIT HORROR 3D. I like
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hernán Goldfrid
Starring: Alberto Ammann | Arturo Puig | Calu Rivero | Ricardo Darín
Bruce says: “The incomparable Ricardo Darin stars as Roberto Bermúdez, a professor of law who has acclaimed academic and forensic careers and a shambles of a personal life. The film opens with Roberto extremely hung over and lying on a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Starring: Adrien Larmande | Chloë Berthier | Jean Barney | Julian Bouanich | Serge Fallu | Thierry Jahn
Jason says: “THE PAINTING (LE TABLEAU in the original French) is beautiful, and witty, and smart; you can tell that from the first frame of this movie about the lives of the figures inside a painting. And if it merely
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chi-Ngai Lee | Fruit Chan | Simon Yam
Starring: Chery Ngan | Dada Chan | Kelly Chan | Simon Yam | Siu Yam-yam | Tony Leung Ka-fai
Jason says: “The last horror movie I saw that I recall really messing me up was ‘Dumplings’, Fruit Chan’s segment of the THREE…EXTREME anthology. After a decade of making movies that have not particularly traveled outside of the various Chinas,
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