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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Darren Paul Fisher
Starring: Charlie Rixon | Daniel Fraser | Dylan Llewellyn | Georgina Minter-Brown | Lily Laight | Owen Pugh
Jason says: “It is not necessarily difficult for an alternate-reality sci-fi film to hook an audience; it just needs a clever premise and the chance to present it in a familiar setting before playing out how strange it makes the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Dunne
Jason says: “Addiction to prescription medication is hardly limited to rural America, but it thrives there. The reasons why communities like Oceana, West Viginia have such a serious problem with painkillers like Oxycontin are far from the first concern of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Terence Nance
Starring: Alisa Becher | Dexter Jones | Jc Cain | Namik Minter | Talibah Lateefah Newman | Terence Nance
Jason says: “AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY began life as a short film, ‘How Would You Feel?’, and goes about building that work up to a feature in an unusual way, not so much expanding it but responding to it.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Timothy Wheeler
Jason says: “Are you a swimmer?’ asked the man at the ticket booth who knew full well I was there because I had a season pass for this film series. I said I wasn’t, and he pointed out that even
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas | Ryan Gosling | Tom Burke | Vithaya Pansringarm | Yayaying Rhatha Phongam
Chris says: “ONLY GOD FORGIVES is similar to DRIVE, only without any redeemable characters, narrative momentum, or moral structure whatsoever. That may sound a little glib, but sadly, it’s not much of an exaggeration. Once again working with director Nicolas
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Elizabeth Mims | Jason Tippet
TC says: “To outsiders, Santa Clarita, California looks like a really great place to live. It is less than an hour from Los Angeles, is ranked as #18 among the Top 100 places to live by Money magazine, and sits
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Alice Braga | Amy Adams | Elisabeth Moss | Garrett Hedlund | Kristen Stewart | Sam Riley | Tom Sturridge
Chris says: “The best one can say about this, the first filmed version of Jack Kerouac’s seminal 1957 novel is that it’s not embarrassing. If that sounds like faint praise, it aptly mirrors the film’s modest ambitions. Rather than transform
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jeremy Frindel
Thom says: “While I have a great admiration for Jeffrey Kagel (Krishna Das) on turning his life around a making a sizable contribution to the world scene, I wasn’t all that swept up with this film, mainly for the simple
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Maya Kenig
Starring: Arad Yeni | Elya Inbar | Gur Bentvich | Salit Achimiriam | Tzahi Grad
Thom says: “This charming Film Movement entry from Israel has a lot to recommend it. A 15-year-old girl arrives in Israel during the 2006 war between Israel & Lebanon. Her mother has sent her to the Middle East from California
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nobuteru Uchida
Starring: Kiki Sugino | Maho Yamada | Makiko Watanabe | Takeshi Yamamoto | Yû Koyanagi | Yûki Shinohara
Bruce says: “ODAYAKA is a psychological study regarding how people react to disaster. Inspiration for the film was drawn from real life events, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which caused over fifteen thousand deaths, many injuries and three level 7
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