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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.25
Director: Soundarya Rajnikanth Ashwin
Starring: Deepika Padukone | Nasser | Rajnikanth; Aadhi | Sarath Kumar
Jason says: “Aside from a cameo in the next year’s RA ONE, Rajnikanth’s last film was 2010’s bonkers but memorable ENDHIRAN, and it appears that the delay in his next starring role can be attributed to both health and script
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mami Sunada
Jason says: “THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS AND MADNESS is sometimes described as ‘a year in the life of Studio Ghibli’, and one which is potentially its last year as an active production house. Many fans will likely be fascinated to
Read the review...To Kill a Man (Chile; 82 min.) directed by: Alejandro Fernández Almendrasstarring: Daniel Candia; Daniel Antivilo; Ariel Mateluna,; Alejandra Yañez Kyle says: “TO KILL A MAN sets up the conventions of a revenge thriller and takes us in an unexpected
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Robert May
Jason says: “‘Kids For Cash!’ makes a great tabloid headline – heck, it looks good on a broadsheet when something akin to the scandal that this movie documents is discovered. It may not be the best title for this particular
Read the review...Kept (Japan; 71 min.) directed by: Maki Mizuistarring: Momoha; Ken Koba; Kayano; Iona; Fuzuki Jason says: “The folks who made KEPT don’t usually do this sort of thing; their names usually show up on light-hearted but bloody genre movies. The
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Jim Mickle
Starring: Don Johnson | Michael C. Hall | Nick Damici | Sam Shepard | Vinessa Shaw | Wyatt Russell
Jason says: “Joe R. Lansdale is a writer much beloved by crime & horror fans but who has never really broken through to mainstream recognition the way contemporaries like Steven King and Clive Barker have; Jim Mickle is an independent
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Derek Kwok | Stephen Chow
Starring: Chen Bing Qiang | Huang Bo | Show Luo | Shu Qi | Wen Zhang
Kyle says: “JOURNEY TO THE WEST is a wild comedic fantasy based on a 16th century Chinese text that occupies a significant place in Chinese culture and has been adapted many times for many different media. In the New Directors/New
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: David Dobkin
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton | Dax Shepard | Grace Zabriskie | Jeremy Strong | Robert Downey Jr | Robert Duvall | Vera Farmiga | Vincent D'Onofrio
Thom says: “This is a bulging, pompous, treacly mess of a film that has big bucks written all over it. Here Downey Jr. (he takes his A-List status very seriously these days) plays a Chicago defense lawyer of dubious moral
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: JB Sapienza | Phil Healy
Jason says: “I wonder where filmmakers start and wind up, in terms of motivation and attitude, when making something like MY NAME IS JONAH. It seems awfully cynical if the final product is what they envisioned, but if not… Well,
Read the review...Jon Imber’s Left Hand (UK; 57 min.) directed by: Richard Kanestarring: Deborah Wye; Jill Hoy; John Yau; John Stromberg; Jon Imber Jason says: “I can’t claim to have much of a grasp on Join Imber’s place in the world of
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