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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.75
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Anson Mount | Eliza Dushku | Frances McDormand | James Franco | Patty LuPone | Robert DeNiro | William Forsythe
Laura says: “DeNiro finally returns to form in his best dramatic outing since 1995 while up and comer James Franco proves his Golden Globe win for last year’s James Dean TV biopic was no fluke. Screenwriter Ken Hixon (INVENTING THE ABBOTTS)
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Brittany Murphy | Eminem | Evan Jones | Kim Basinger | Mekhi Phifer | Omar Benson Miller
Laura says: “”Producer Brian Grazer combines his passion for hip hop with a prestige director (Curtis Hanson, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL), a music superstar and a Rockyesque genre script for a solid commercial outing. 8 MILE isn’t a great film, but it is
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Director: Charles Ferguson
Bruce says: “This dazzling film examines the recent financial crisis in an efficient, insightful way. For those of us who followed the debacle on a daily basis the basic facts are nothing new; for newcomers they are concisely summarized. The
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Director: Ruxandra Medrea | Serge Bromberg
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Maren Ade
Starring: Atef Vogel | Birgit Minichmayr | Carina Wiese | Hans-Jochen Wagner | Lars Eidinger | Mira Partecke | Nicole Marischka | Paula Hartmann
Scot says: “Just watched the German film EVERYONE ELSE, which I quite enjoyed. My concise summary of the film is that it’s about that moment in a relationship when you see your partner deciding whether he/she would rather be a freak
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Director: Tanya Hamilton
Starring: Amari Cheatom | Anthony Mackie | Black Thought | Jamie Hector | Kerry Washington | Ron Simons | Wendell Pierce
Chris says: “Tanya Hamilton’s truly independent, long-gestating project is personal cinema of the sort one rarely sees anymore. Set in 1976 Philadelphia, it reunites two former Black Panthers: Marcus (Anthony Mackie), who returns to his old neighborhood after years in
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Jason says: “There are a lot of fiction films that don’t set their main plot up as artfully as MINE does. After all, the title speaks pretty directly to what the movie is about, and yet director Geralyn Pezanoski is
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Starring: Attilia Boschetti | Cristian Mercado | Haydeé Cáceres | Humberto Cavero | José Chacaltana | Manolo Cardona | Maria Edelmira Palomino | Tatiana Astengo
Michael says: “Gentle and understated, but with real emotion that resonates, Javier Fuentes-León’s debut feature UNDERTOW touches upon love, death, and what it means to be a man in South America. Set in a visually stunning village on the coast
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Director: Tom Hooper
Starring: Colin Firth | Derek Jacobi | Eve Best | Geoffrey Rush | Guy Pearch | Helena Bonham Carter | Jennifer Ehle | Michael Gambon | Timothy Spall
Vicki says: “An impressive period drama set in England right before World War 2, THE KING’S SPEECH tells the story of George VI who becomes king after his brother, Edward VII abdicates. Berte (Colin Firth) cannot make a speech without
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Director: Alain Corneau
Starring: Gérald Laroche | Guillaume Marquet | Julien Rochefort | Kristin Scott Thomas | Ludivine Sagnier | Marie Guillard | Olivier Rabourdin | Patrick Mille
Vicki says: “In this, his last film, Alain Corneau creates a taut psychological thriller with Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier squaring off. Thomas plays Christine, a cold conniving high powered office executive to Sagnier’s seemingly innocent and supportive office
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