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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Luke Poling | Tom Bean
Chris says: “A brief bio of George Plimpton would say that he was a journalist and co-founder of venerable literary magazine The Paris Review. Still, more so than Jean Shepherd, Truman Capote or even David Sedaris, Plimpton was most famous
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Starring: Gabriel Mwarua | Helen Brugat | Inge Maux | Margarete Teisel | Peter Kazungu
Bruce says: “Ulrich Seidl has stirred up a controversy or two with his films IMPORT/EXPORT and PARADISE: LOVE. To understand the fuss it is important to see the film, at least that is the case for PARADISE: LOVE that begins
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Dunne
Jason says: “Addiction to prescription medication is hardly limited to rural America, but it thrives there. The reasons why communities like Oceana, West Viginia have such a serious problem with painkillers like Oxycontin are far from the first concern of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Terence Nance
Starring: Alisa Becher | Dexter Jones | Jc Cain | Namik Minter | Talibah Lateefah Newman | Terence Nance
Jason says: “AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY began life as a short film, ‘How Would You Feel?’, and goes about building that work up to a feature in an unusual way, not so much expanding it but responding to it.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Janet Tobias
Jason says: “There’s enough staged footage with actors in NO PLACE ON EARTH that one almost wonders why director Janet Tobias didn’t just present this story of a Jewish family hiding from the Nazis in caves for the better part
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Adelaide Clemens | America Olivo | Beau Knapp | Brodus Clay | Derek Magyar | Laura Ramsey | Lee Tergeesen | Lindsey Shaw | Luke Evans
Thom says: “Kitamura, well-known for such horror fare as VERSUS and THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN does his best work here but be warned this serial killer film is way over-the-top when it comes to bloody, ultra-disgusting scenes. While the ending
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Dosunmu
Starring: Anthony Okungbowa | Bukky Ajayi | Danai Gurira | Isaach De Bankolé | Klarissa Jackson | Yaya Alafia
Chris says: “At her wedding, Adenike (Danai Gurira), a Nigerian recently transplanted to Brooklyn is asked by her mother-in-law to bear a child named George. In her culture, this is not a request, but a command, her duty. After a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Whoopi Goldberg
Chris says: “A half-forgotten pop culture figure you probably never thought the world needed a documentary feature about, mid-century black comedienne Moms Mabley actually proves ideal for the format. Her career trajectory (playing to mostly black audiences until finding mainstream
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martin Villeneuve
Starring: Catherine Dhavernas | Jacques Languirand | Paul Ahmarani | Robert Lepagee
Jason says: “As much as I’m glad the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival is getting a better class of movies, I kind of wish that the timing of MARS ET AVRIL hitting the festival circuit and then having its regular release
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Macky Alston
Bruce says: “LOVE FREE OR DIE begins with scenes at the 2008 Lambeth Conference, a once-a-decade get together for Anglican Bishops, a by-invitation-only event engineered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. One of the Bishops noticeably uninvited is Gene
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