Remembering Heaven (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Tom Laughlin
Memoria (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Agnes Brekke | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Jerónimo Barón | Juan Pablo Urrego | Tilda Swinton
Brett says: “Otherworldly, yet firmly planted in our current existence. Mystical, yet earthy. These are a few of the paradoxes during a screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s MEMORIA. It might be better to describe this one as a dreamscape rather than
Read the review...Men (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Garland
Starring: Gayle Rankin | Jessie Buckley | Paapa Essiedu | Rory Kinnear | Sarah Twomey | Zak Rothera-Oxley
Brett satys: “With a film likely to be as divisive as MEN, it is perhaps best to keep a review as short as possible so as to not dig oneself a hole that he/she is unable to crawl out of.
Read the review...The Innocents (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Eskil Vogt
Starring: Alva Brynsmo Ramstad | Ellen Dorrit Petersen | Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim | Morten Svartveit | Rakel Lenora Fløttum | Sam Ashraf
Brett says: “THE INNOCENTS is a film that see-saws back and forth with character-driven family drama and shocking kid-fueled horror/fantasy. The film’s primary focus is on a group of four Norwegian children who—through their own sets of circumstantial conflicts—have by-passed
Read the review...The Last Duel (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Adam Driver | Ben Affleck | Harriet Walter | Jodie Comer | Matt Damon
Thom says: “I certainly did not go into this film with any extraordinary expectations other than the presence of Adam Driver (and he is, as usual, impeccably brilliant). Director Ridley Scott has had a remarkably diverse career of such varied
Read the review...One Second (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Haocun Liu | Wei Fan | Xiaochuan Li | Yan Li | Yi Zhang
Chris says: “SHADOW was Zhang Yimou’s best film in years; this follow-up is not as innovative, but it does feel faintly reminiscent of his smaller-scale 1990s dramas (his most fertile period), if perhaps a little goofier. Set in a remote area
Read the review...Girl Picture (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alli Haapasalo
Starring: Aamu Milonoff | Cécile Orblin | Eleonoora Kauhanen | Linnea Leino | Oona Airola | Sonya Lindfors
Chris says: “If the English title sounds a bit generic (the original Finnish one translates as GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS), rest assured, the film is not. Mostly set over three consecutive Fridays, it’s about three teenagers: Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and Rönkkö
Read the review...Girl Talk (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucia Small
Chris says: “By far not the first film about high school debate programs, Lucia Small’s documentary is surely the only one to focus primarily on female debaters. Shot over five years and using Newton South High School as its primary
Read the review...I Love My Dad (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Morosini
Starring: Afrim Gjonbalaj | J.P. Edwards | Rachel Dratch | Seamus Callahan | Sheri Fairchild
Chris says: “If it seems outlandish that a young man’s estranged father could ‘catfish’ him as a young adult by posing as a young girl on a fake social media profile, well, it happened to actor/writer/director James Morosini and he’s
Read the review...Every Day in Kaimuki (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alika Tengan
Starring: Jordan Cheng | Joshua Co | Lisette Marie Flanary | Reanna Barboza | Tyler Ebisuya
Chris says: “It feels too easy to label this as ‘Hawaiian Mumblecore’, even if that’s exactly what it is. The backstory is more interesting: Director Alika Tengan developed this around the real life circumstances of its star, Naz Kawakami, a
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