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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Alessandro Nivola | Colin Firth | James Hamrick | Kristopher Higgins | Reese Witherspoon | Seth Meriwether
Michael says: “For his latest film, Atom Egoyan tackled the controversial true story of the West Memphis Three, a court case about the shocking murder of three young boys. Three young men were targeted as the murderers because of the
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Starring: André Dussollier | Burghart Klaußner | Johannes Klaußner | Niels Arstrup | Robert Stadlober | Thomas Arnold
Thom says: “While director Schlöndorff doesn’t have quite the cachet of contemporaries Herzog, Fassbinder, or Wenders he still has a fairly consistent track record with THE TIN DRUM, YOUNG TORLESS, THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM, COUP DE GRACE, CIRCLE
Read the review...The Desert (Argentina; 98 min.) directed by: Chritsoph Behlstarring: Lautaro Delgado; William Procluk; Victoria Almeida; Lucas LaGré Jason says: “There’s a lot to like about Christoph Behl’s post-apocalyptic love triangle, and the fact that it can be described as such
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Justin Simien
Starring: Brittany Curran | Dennis Haysbert | Kyle Gallner | Tessa Thompson | Tyler James Williams
Kyle says: “’Dear White People: The amount of black friends required not to seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man Tyrone doesn’t count!’ Thus Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) begins her Winchester University campus radio show
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Adan Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Brontis Jodorowsky | Jeremias Herskovits | Pamela Flores
Jason says: “I wouldn’t necessarily expect Alejandro Jodorowsky to be particularly prone to nostalgia; the director, writer, and ‘psychomagician’ has, throughout his career, favored the grandly imaginative and metaphysical to the mundane to an extent that few in any medium
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Andy Serkis | Gary Oldman | Jason Clarke | Judy Greer | Keri Russell | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Toby Kebbell
Thom says: “Yes, I’ve seen them all: PLANET OF THE APES (1968, 4 CATS), BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970, 4 CATS), ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1971, 4.5 CATS), CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jonas Govaerts
Starring: Evelien Bosmans | Maurice Luijten | Sef Aerts | Titus De Voogdt
Brett says: “CUB is a film loaded with potential for a horror film, taking its premise from the campfire stories that are commonplace among scouts crowded around the camp fire in the woods on a weekend retreat. This premise is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jerzy Rose
Starring: Adam Paul | Adebukola Bodunrin | Lyra Hill | Mike Lopez | Ted Temper
Jason says: “Even by black comedy standards, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY is kind of on the mean side. That’s no knock; mean can work, especially in a movie like this that is more about tying jokes together than building to one
Read the review...The Creeping Garden (USK; 81 min.) directed by: Tim Graham & Jasper Sharpdocumentary Jason says: “I take a certain amount of pride in seeing/reviewing movies like this at festivals, and I half think it’s why some issue me press passes
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ari Folman
Starring: Danny Huston | Harvey Keitel | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Michael Stahl-David | Robin Wright | Sami Gayle
TC says: “Loosely adapted from the Stanislaw Lem novel (who would probably say ‘VERY loosely’), this film is almost impossible to review, because as a film writer and fan, the thought of the stuff going on in this film is
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