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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Maude Michaud
Jason says: “Maude Michaud’s DYS- looks to be on the path to dystopia as it starts, but as with many stories that start with an outbreak, that turns out to be the background for some intense dysfunction. It’s the sort
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Peter Strickland
Starring: Chiara d'Anna | Kate Bartsh | Monica Swinn | Sidse Babett Knudsen | Zita Kraszkó
Jason says: “It’s tempting to interpret the characters’ behavior in THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY in terms of closets and shame; it’s sort of the default for this period and would probably be a fascinating way to play it. Peter Strickland
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Marielle Heller
Chris says: “I’ve seen enough coming-of-age films to contribute to a Chlotrudis poll about them, but I’ve seen nothing quite like THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL: funny, intense and sexually graphic in equal measures, it’s also a period piece,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Chao Deng | Yu Baimei
Jason says: “The very first scene of DEVIL AND ANGEL makes it clear what sort of broad comedy it’s going to be, and it’s a pretty dumb one. And it’s not a dumb comedy that is secretly kind of clever;
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dibakar Bannerjee
Jason says: “This movie has an exclamation point in its title, and putting that together with it being from India yields a certain set of expectations – something flashy that jumps from tone to tone, at least some of them
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jason Lei Howden
Jason says: “I skipped DEATHGASM at Independent Film Festival Boston figuring it would play Fantasia while other things on the IFFBoston schedule might not otherwise play theaters, and the gambit paid off. Not just because the movie played, but also
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Daniel F. Cardone
Thom says: “Here’s another free ticket I nabbed to the annual San Francisco LGBT Film Festival. This was yet again a documentary entry and once more it shows that as I’m getting older it’s just as difficult being objective as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hiroshi Shinagawa
Jason says: “Even the biggest zombie movies tend to be pretty simple things, and I wouldn’t necessarily say DEADMAN INFERNO (aka Z ISLAND) was exactly complicated. It does have a fair amount more going on than is typical for this
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenne
Jason says: “I’m mildly curious how big a part a secondary character had in the original book; after an amusing introduction (and fairly high billing), he gets streamlined right in the background. It’s the right choice – this is a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Toa Fraser
Kyle says: “THE DEAD LANDS is a tale of an ancient Maori tribe which is virtually wiped out by a band of treacherous, lying, spiritually desolate villains who are pursued by the dead chief’s handsome teenage son seeking revenge. Hongi
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