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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Carney
Starring: Beth Fallon | Marcella Plunkett | Nick Jonas | Paul Rudd | Peter McDonald
Vicki says: “POWER BALLAD is a crowd-pleasing movie about friendship, ambition, and the world of songwriting. Paul Rudd plays Rick Power, a wedding singer whose dreams of musical success remain unfulfilled while Nick Jonas plays Danny, former boy-band star trying
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Giselle Bonilla
Starring: Billian Jacobs | Lili Alice | Nevada Jose | Rob Lowe | Will Brill
Michael says: “Giselle Bonella’s feature film debut, THE MUSICAL, is a bold, audacious swing into the blackest satire. When middle school drama teacher, Doug, finds out that his fellow teacher, Abigail, with whom had had been dating the previous year,
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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 cats
Director: Dylan Frederick | Nicholas Clark
Brett says: “If one goes into AMERICAN THEATER without prior knowledge, the first few minutes could likely have that person questioning if this is an actual theatrical production or a WAITING FOR GUFFMAN redux. Despite this, it does not take
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Donnie Hobbie
Starring: Chelsea Talmadge | Erin Ruth Walker | Madison Abbott | Natasha Estrada | Shannon Dang
Brett says: “JUMP SCARE is a horror genre film that attempts punches above its weight, but the result is not always favorable. At a little over 90 minutes, it’s a film that can be aimless at times, as if primarily
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Starring: Dylan Baker | Gillian Anderson | Hannah Einbinder | Jack Haven | Patrick Fischler | Zach Cerry
Michael says: “Jane Schoenbrun’s follow-up to I SAW THE TV GLOW moves from sad to joyful in the fascinating take on slasher films being a perverse orgasmic release for many fans of the genre. it’s also an unabashedly queer film
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jay Duplass
Starring: Cooper Raiff | David Duchovny | Hope Davis | Kaitlyn Dever | Lucy Boynton
Michael says: “Jay Duplass follows up THE BALTIMORONS with a film vaguely related in theme (dealing with grief and suicide) but completely different in tone. This is family trauma at its most intense — and that is my jam. A
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Brooke Lynn Hytes | Ginger Minj | Jujubee | Latrice Royale | Marty Lauter | RuPaul Charles
Michael says: “AIRPLANE on a train with drag queens. That’s the tagline for the new film from HAIRSPRAY director Adam Shankman. And if you can’t tell by the overuse of exclamation marks, STOP! THAT! TRAIN! is way over the top
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robin Campillo
Starring: Elodie Bouchez | Eloy Pohu | Maksym Slivinskyi | Nathan Japy | Pierfrancesco Favino
Michael says: “Enzo, a sixteen-year-old boy from a wealthy family in France, becomes dissatisfied with his life of privilege and manifests his teen rebellion by shifting his attention from his education to working on a construction site. There he befriends
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Director: Christian Nilsson
Starring: Amy Forsyth | Finn Wittrock | Jake Weary | RJ Mitte | Sam Strike
Jess says: “You can’t go home again… or can you? “I am in awe of how great this was, considering the directors last film was one of the two bad Dashcam’s of 2021. I really appreciated it was a movie
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