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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: David Shapiro | Laurie Shapiro
…great conversationalist talks, playfully following side threads that always weave back into the big picture.” 5 cat For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/keeptheriveronyourright.htm“ Michael says: “KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Ewan McGregor | Jim Broadbent | Nicole Kidman
…outfitted, desirable beauty who excels at artifice ” 3.5 cats For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/moulinrouge.htm” Michael says: “I was a mite trepidatious going into this film… it had received…
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Jacques Martineau | Olivier Ducastel
Starring: Ariane Ascaride | Patachou | Pierre-Loup Rajot | Sami Bouajila
…complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/theadventuresoffelix.htm” Kevin says: “This was a really charming film. Again, a great film from 2001 (after NICO AND DANI and COME UNDONE) that features a homosexual main…
Read the review...…about GIGANTIC (A TALE OF TWO JOHNS) visit the film’s official website at http://www.giganticfilm.com/. For message boards and late-breaking information about the film join the giganticfilm newsgroup at yahoo. For…
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…the connections between the characters are revealed, and all must choose what kind of lives they want before the sun comes up the next day. Produced by Ismail Merchant and…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Dan Akroyd | Eleanor Bron | Gillian Armstrong | Laura Linney
…For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/thehouseofmirth.htm” Marilyn says: “Gillian Anderson gives a stunning performance….quite wonderful.” Michael says: “Stunning adaptation of Wharton’s novel criticizing class structure. Anderson is a revelation…
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Rating: 4.125 cats
Director: Rob Sitch
Starring: Kevin Harrington | Patrick Warburton | Sam Neill | Tom Long
…momentous event will appeal to everyone everywhere. I can’t wait to see what Rob Stitch and company will come up with next.” 4 cats “For Robin’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/thedish.htm” …
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francisca Alegria
Starring: Benjamin Soto | Enzo Ferrada Rosati | Frederique Gudelj | Leonor Varela | Mia Maestro
…one dance scene and music to that. “These quoted sections from https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-05-25/review-cow-who-sang-song-into-future-chile-magical-realism “‘With finely tuned magical realist sensibilities, first-time writer-director Francisca Alegria launches into a hauntingly atmospheric tale that denounces…
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Peter Care
Starring: Emile Hirsch | Jena Malone | Jody Foster | Kieran Culkin | Vincent D'Onofrio
…Hirsch.” 3 1/2 cats For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/thedangerouslivesofaltarboys.htm” Robin says: “Todd McFarlane, creator of the ‘Spawn’ dynasty, is tasked with imagining the super hero stories that fill Francis’…
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Rating: 4.125 cats
Director: Alex Rivera
Starring: Giovanna Zacarías | Jacob Vargas | Leonor Varela | Luis Fernando Peña
…working as an editor, and the dot-com economy was booming. The cover of WIRED magazine prophesized the coming of a ‘Global Village.’ At the same time, the Clinton administration was…
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