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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yves Montmayeur
Bruce says: “Michael Haneke does not like to discuss his personal life – he prefers to concentrate on the man behind the camera. Those wishes are granted by director Yves Montmayeur. It is likely those wishes were conditional in making
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Lee Hwan-Kyung
Starring: Jeong Man-Sik | Kal So-Won | Kim Ki-Cheon | Oh Dal-Su | Park Won-Sang | Ryoo Seung-Ryong
Kyle says: “MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7 is a despicable patriarchal fantasy presented as a comedic tearjerker about a wrongfully imprisoned intellectually impaired but adoring father Young-Goo (Ryoo Seung-Ryong) of a precious little girl Je-Seung (Kal So-Won), who is smuggled
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: P.J. Hogan
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | Liev Schreiber | Rebecca Gibney | Toni Collette
Kyle says: “Whether you are a potential viewer of this latest work by the director best known for MURIEL’S WEDDING depends on how open you are to a comedy about mental illness. The title refers not only to the wildly
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Chad Hartigan
Starring: Demetrius Grosse | Kristin Slaysman | Paul Eenhoorn | Richmond Arquette | Tom Plunkett
Chris says: “Deceptively simple and effortlessly graceful, this character study is the type of American indie you wish would receive the release and promotional heft of something like THE WAY WAY BACK. Martin Bonner, a divorced, sixty-ish man of Australian
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: D.J. Mendel | Danielle Meyer | George Feaster | James Rich | Miho Nikaido | Penelope Lagos
Thom says: “I’ve followed Hal Hartley’s career quite closely & had seen all his feature-length films sans FLIRT (1995) & SURVIVING DESIRE (1993) & have loved some of them including TRUST, AMATEUR, HENRY FOOL, & FAY GRIM. Others haven’t been
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martin Villeneuve
Starring: Catherine Dhavernas | Jacques Languirand | Paul Ahmarani | Robert Lepagee
Jason says: “As much as I’m glad the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival is getting a better class of movies, I kind of wish that the timing of MARS ET AVRIL hitting the festival circuit and then having its regular release
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Carlos Jaureguialzo
Starring: Cecilia Roth | Dario Grandinetti | Manuel Vicente | Marcelo Melingo | Rafael Spregelburd | Susans Lanteri
Bruce says: “Loosely based on the characters of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses, MARRIAGE is a dawn-to-dusk examination of a marriage from within the minds of both husband and wife. It is a day in which both
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Amy Adams | Diane Lane | Henry Cavill | Kevin Costner | Michael Shannon | Russell Crowe
Bruce says: “I generally try not to review the big blockbusters but as a gigantic Superman fan I thought I could add my 2-cents-worth. I’ve seen SUPERMAN, SUPERMAN II, SUPERMAN III, SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE, SUPERMAN RETURNS, &
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Idris Elba | Naomie Harris | Riaad Moosa | Simo Mogwaza | Tony Kgoroge | Zolani Mkiva
Jason says: “MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is a tidily-arranged biography; it organizes what people are interested in where Nelson Mandela is concerned and presents it in a manner that is respectful and stirring without feeling like it is getting
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Caradog W. James
Starring: Caity Lotz | Denis Lawson | Jade Croot | Sam Hazeldine | Toby Stevens
Jason says: “THE MACHINE is not the sort of science fiction movie that comes from someone who is, at heart, making a western, or because setting it in the future gives the FX guys a reason to make cool visuals,
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