Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: James Schneider | Paul Bishow
Two Lottery Tickets (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paul Negoescu
Starring: Alexandru Papadopol | Andi Vasluianu | Dorian Boguta | Dragos Bucur | Serban Pavlu
Diane says: “Romanian comedy TWO LOTTERY TICKETS (Paul Negoescu, director) was good for a post-Icelandic-film palate cleanser. A suburban trio of bumbling stooges gets in over their naive heads as they follow a trail to find a misplaced winning ticket. ‘We
Read the review...Duty Free (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Sian-Pierre Regis
Us Kids (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kim A. Snyder
How it Ends (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Daryl Wein | Zoe Lister-Jones
Starring: Bobby Lee | Cailee Spaeny | Finn Wolfhard | Logan Marshall-Green | Nick Kroll | oe Lister-Jones | Tawny Newsome | Whitney Cummings
Chris says: “Shot entirely during the COVID-19 quarantine, this end-of-the-world indie-com has a good premise (although Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT got there first more than two decades ago), an impressive ensemble and a rather shoddy execution. Feeling much, much longer
Read the review...Weed & Wine (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen
Chris says: “Two intertwined documentaries for the price of one, following a family of vintners in France and father-and-son cannabis farmers in Northern California. While it partially draws parallels between the two sets of subjects (in particular focusing on the
Read the review...Last Night in Rozzie (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Sean Gannet
Starring: Greyson Cage | Jeremy Sisto | Kevin Chapman | Neil Brown Jr. | Nicky Whelan | Ryan Canale
Chris says: “The poster and the premise might lead one to expect another low-budget, mean-streets-of-Boston crime drama; thankfully, this goes a little deeper than that set-up. 25 years after a traumatic event that we only see fragments of until its full
Read the review...Marvelous and the Black Hole (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Kate Tsang
Starring: chech | Jae Suh Park | Keith Powell | Leonardo Nam | Lucy DeVito | Miya Cech | Rhea Perlman
Chris says: “An unlikely friendship develops between 13-year-old Sammy (Miya Cech), who has been acting out in the year following her mom’s death and Margot (Rhea Perlman), an eccentric, older magician who becomes her mentor. Director Kate Tsang’s feature debut
Read the review...Luzzu (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9
Director: Alex Camilleri
Starring: David Scicluna | Frida Cauchi | Jesmark Scicluna | Michela Farrugia | Stephen Buhagiar | Uday McLean
Bob says: “A luzzu is a tiny Maltese fishing boat, only about 3 meters long, brightly painted and with eyes adorning the bow. Jesmark’s luzzu has been in his family for generations, and it shows — both in the imprint
Read the review...Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Celeste Bell | Paul Sng
Chris says: “As the female, biracial lead singer for the British punk band X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene was an undeniable trailblazer: self-styled and decked out in braces, she sang/shouted her own provocative lyrics and was briefly a counterculture star. This is
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