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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Jason says: “NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS doesn’t initially look remarkable; indeed, midway through it, it appears slight of frame but bloated by music videos; interesting, but trying to be two things and doing neither well. But it eventually
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mark Romanek
Starring: Andrew Garfield | Carey Mulligan | Charlie Rowe | Ella Purnell | Isobel Meikle-Small | Keira Knightley
Jason says: “NEVER LET ME GO is the sort of science fiction that tends to hide its genre or go by another name – ‘speculative fiction’ or ‘slipstream’ – because it wants to associate itself with a different audience. Science
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif | Chloe Sevigny | Grace Zabriskie | Loretta Devine | Michael Peña | Michael Shannon | Willem Dafoe
Jason says: “The first two credits to appear on the screen in MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE are ‘David Lynch Presents’ and ‘A Film By Werner Herzog.’ If you recognize the names, you know that means there’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dan Eckman
Starring: Aubrey Plaza | D.C. Pierson | Dominic Dierkes | Donald Glover | Matt Walsh
Jason says: “Aw, nuts. Granted, it’s not as if I’m likely to ever actually be able to produce Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators movies, but it’s on my list of things that I would like to do if I
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Michael Kallio
Starring: Bart Williams | Bob Young | Colleen Nash | Jack White | Michael East | Pete LaDuke
Jason says: “This shit needs to stop. “Shouldn’t young filmmakers with no money have moved on from spoofing bad 1950s sci-fi by now? It’s too easy a target if the intent is to skewer, and if the goal is to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Glenn Ficarra | John Requa
Starring: Antoni Corone | Brennan Brown | Ewan McGregor | Jim Carrey | Leslie Mann | Rodrigo Santoro
Jason says: “I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS opens with a playful variant on the standard disclaimer, something along the lines of ‘This all happened. It really did!’ It’s the sort of movie that might get dismissed as ridiculous or improbable
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Starring: Bin Won | Hye-ja Kim | Ku Jin | Mi-sun Jun | Sae-Beauk Song | Yoon-jae Moon | Young-suck Lee
Jason says: “Bong Joon-ho’s last film, THE HOST, was a great big special effects extravaganza that set the record for ticket sales in South Korea. In many cases, one would expect a director to try and top that in his
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Scoot McNairy | Whitney Able
Jason says: “Movies like MONSTERS often get graded on a curve because of how much they do with relatively little. Gareth Edwards shot it guerilla-style and had to cram a fair amount of effects shots into a five or six-figure
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: André Dussollier | Dany Boon | Jean-Pierre Marielle | Nicolas Marié | Yolande Moreau
Thom says: “This film is absolute perfection, defining the art of film, frame-by-frame, scene-by-scene, with so many of the delightful excesses that Jeunet is known for. And don’t count me as a Jeunet Pollyanna, by any means. While I’m a
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Starring: Gianni Di Gregorgio | Grazia Cesarini Sforza | Maria Cali | Marina Cacciotti | Valeria De Franciscis
Bruce says: “MID-AUGUST LUNCH is based on a solid idea but is hampered by a sloppy, unsatisfying execution. Gianni is a dutiful son confronted with dwindling coffers and an insatiable yearning for white wine. He lives with and cares for
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