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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Morgan Neville
Vicki says: “ROADRUNNER is Morgan Neville’s slightly long, but otherwise raw and superb documentary about the late chef/writer, Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain tragically committed suicide in 2018 at age 61. Luckily, the film does not dwell on this at all, except
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Director: Matthew Ya-Hsiung Balzer
Starring: Bill Sage | Emy Coligado | Gianna Capri | James McMenamin | Jere Burns | Katia Winter | Kyle Gallner
Toni says: “THE CATCH also explored a fishing (or lobstering) community in Maine, but is more of a family drama mixed with crime thriller, only hinting at the economic struggles, spending more time on ‘failure to launch’ and drug dealing tropes,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Laura Fairrie
Vicki says: “LADY BOSS tells the real story behind Jackie Collins, the well known author and sister of actress, Joan Collins. It is very effectively layered by using interviews with friends, family and archival footage. She was quite complex. I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Coe | Warwick Ross
Vicki says: “In the Q and A, the director stole my opening line, ‘This is the wine version of COOL RUNNINGS.’ An unlikely quartet of refugees from Zimbabwe end up in South Africa where they get jobs in restaurants, often
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Brandon Kramer
Vicki says: “THE FIRST STEP tells the story of Van Jones’( the CNN commentator) push to pass the Prison Reform Act, not an easy task in a country so divided. The documentary takes a ‘fly on the wall’ approach which
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Questlove
Michael says: “Questlove’s documentary about a summer long music festival in Harlem, during 1969 — happening concurrently with Woodstock, but that very few people are aware of today, benefitted by my recent viewing of the film PASSING. and my reading
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Director: Alex Westfall | Emily Parker | Faye Ruiz | Jermaine Manigault | Lesley Steele | Nicole Magabo | Nicole Otero | Olive Nwosu | Peier Tracy Shen | Samira Saraya
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ena Sendijarevic
Starring: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic | Ernad Prnjavorac | Jasna Djuricic | Lazar Dragojevic | Mirsad Tuka | Sanja Buric | Sara Luna Zoric
Michael says: “It sounded so interesting. A young woman leaves her mother’s home in the Netherlands where she was raised, to return to her native Bosnia and seek out a father that she barely remembered. Despite a solid performance by
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Director: Beth B
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Starring: Jabari Watkins | Karyn Parsons | Lana Rockwell | M.L. Josepher | Nico Rockwell | Steven Randazzo | Will Patton
Bob says: “Billie and her little brother Nico (played by director Alexandre Rockwell’s kids) live with their father in a not too impressive bit of the Boston area. Dad means well, but he’s drunk all the time. Their mother (the
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