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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chi-Ngai Lee | Fruit Chan | Simon Yam
Starring: Chery Ngan | Dada Chan | Kelly Chan | Simon Yam | Siu Yam-yam | Tony Leung Ka-fai
Jason says: “The last horror movie I saw that I recall really messing me up was ‘Dumplings’, Fruit Chan’s segment of the THREE…EXTREME anthology. After a decade of making movies that have not particularly traveled outside of the various Chinas,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Aleksander Nordaas
Starring: Erlend Nervold | Jon Sigve Skard | Morten Andressen | Roland Astrand | Silje Reina
Thom says: “A two-man clean-up crew go deep into the Norwegian woods to a remote cabin where they discover a comatose woman that they revive. The woman has a long tail. Thale (the tailed figure) is apparently a Huldra a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephen Fung
Starring: Angelababy | Daniel Wu | Eddie Peng | Peter Stormare | Qi Shu | Tony Leung Ka Fai | Yuan Xiaochao
Jason says: “In China, there was a mere four-week wait between TAI CHI ZERO and this second part of the story; depending where you are in America, it wound up being six to eight months. Not that it much matters;
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Miguel Gomes
Starring: Ana Moreira | Carloto Cotta | Enrique Espirito Santo | Laura Soveral | Teresa Madruga
Chris says: “From Portugal, this little, whimsical black-and-white film should carry an instant appeal for anyone bored by the more commercial axis of indie crossover cinema simply because it’s so quirky and weird—almost like a more feminine Jim Jarmusch mixed
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Logan Miller
Starring: Amy Madigan | Ed Harris | Eduardo Noriega | January Jones | Jason Isaacs | Stephen Root
Jason says: “Ed Harris. Western. There, that should have sold everyone… Oh, you need more? Fine. SWEETWATER (also known as SWEET VENGEANCE) is a dark, bloody Western that is both fairly traditional and over-the-top crazy, with a fairly great cast.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lu Chuan
Starring: Chang Chen | Cuckoo He | Daniel Wu | Huo Siyan | Li Qi | Liu Ye | Nie Yuan | Qin Lan | Sha Yi | Tao Zeru
Kyle says: “THE LAST SUPPER screened in its U.S. Premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival. According to various reports, the SARFT (State Administration for Radio, Film and Television), otherwise known as the Chinese censors, worked themselves into a
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Brian Dannelly
Starring: Allison Janney | Chris Colfer | Christina Hendricks | Dermot Mulroney | Polly Bergen | Sarah Hyland
Bruce says: “The biggest problem with STRUCK BY LIGHTNING is the protagonist. He is not very likable. In the opening frames we learn that Carson Phillips (Chris Colfer of GLEE fame) is the lightning victim. Carson is also the victim
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Sarah Polley
Bruce says: “Sarah Polley first dazzled film lovers with wonderful performances in THE SWEET HEREAFTER, EXOTICA, THE HANGING GARDEN, LAST NIGHT, and MY LIFE WITHOUT ME. Then she turned to directing and dazzled once again with the narrative features AWAY
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: David Alford | Laruen E. Roman | Matthew Goode | Mia Wasikowska | Nicole Kidman | Peg Allen
Jason says: “With any luck, a fair number of the people seeing STOKER will do so without already being fans of director Park Chan-wook, drawn in by the nifty cast and striking previews. They’re in for a treat, because Park
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Jason says: “Toward the end of WE STEAL SECRETS, one of the interview subjects calls back to an early online handle of Julian Assange’s, ‘Mendax’, an abbreviation of ‘noble liar’. That is, however, not the first (possible) online alias of
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