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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dong Chengpeng
Jason says: “I doubt that JIAN BING MAN will be a part of the next International Pancake Film Festival (a real thing in Boston and Chicago, look it up!); there just isn’t enough pancake content to justify adding a feature
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Nick Powell
Kyle says: “For the ‘New Rules’ segment of his hit HBO show REAL TIME, comedian Bill Maher has found considerable merriment in making fun of actors attempting to portray gravitas by affecting a British accent, and in pointing out how
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Yu Shan Chen
Jasonvsays: “So, here’s a weird coincidence – two Mandarin-language moviesvreaching American cinemas a mere two days apart, both nostalgic romances that, at different points, involve the young characters needing to meet up at McDonald’s. They’re from different countries (China and
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Lluís Quílez
Kyle says: “OUT OF THE DARK starts with a thunderstorm, as a man hurriedly packs a suitcase, interrupted on his way out first by a phone call instructing him to burn what look like medical files, then by persistent pounding
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Zhang Hao
Jason says: “As Fong Yang (Tang Wei) lays out the backstory for ONLY YOU in its opening fourth-wall-breaking minutes, I briefly wondered if it perhaps made a bit more sense with a Chinese background than in the original American movie
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Ed Pincus | Lucia Small
Thom says: “According to items I’ve been reading Ed Pincus is considered a seminal documentary film director, even so far as being called the Father of First-person Non-fiction Film. This biographical entry was made during the last period of Pincus’
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Won-chan
Jason says: “I don’t know if OFFICE ever really gets back around to the question that kicks it off in a definitive way, or if where it winds up going instead is really as fascinating as the filmmakers would have
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Rating: 2.25
Director: C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi
Jason says: “OJUJU is a zombie film from Nigeria, and there can be very little doubt that its place of origin is the most notable thing about it. Horror fans have seen this sort of movie a lot, usually done
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: K Youn
Kyle says: “ODE TO MY FATHER is a Korean film about family promises and preservation at all costs. It is melodramatic in various ways, which may render it unpalatable to some Western tastes, for example, gratuitously slamming the audience with
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Joseph Sims Dennett
Jason says: “Writer/director Joseph Sims-Dennett initially seems to start out with a private eye story with the background redacted before quickly evolving into something more sinister. It’s an intense stakeout thriller, if one that leans more toward how this sort
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