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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Annti-Jussi Annila
Starring: Kari Ketonen | Rain Tolk | Sonja Petäjäjärvi | Tommi Eronen | Viktor Klimenko | Ville Virtanen
Michael says: “This Finnish horror story touches on so many themes that it threatens to overwhelm, but somehow, writer Iiro Küttner manages to weave them all together and along with director Antti-Jussi Annila manages to create an elegant monster movie
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michelle Esrick
Jason says: “Can I be honest about something? I can’t warm up to hippies, or counterculture. In the abstract, I am all for a philosophy of living your life any way you want so long as you don’t hurt anyone
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hun Jang
Starring: Chang-seok Ko | Ji-Hwan Kang | Ji-seob So | Ji-sub So | Su-hyeon Hong
Jason says: “I’ve got to be honest here… I kind of wanted a different ending on this. Part of what’s so much fun about Korean movies is that they don’t seem obligated to take even familiar genre films in the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Charlize Theron | Guy Pearce | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Molly Parker | Robert Duvall | Viggo Mortenson
Diane says: “Forgive me, I can only review this as movie vs. book. I read the book once, and listened to the audiobook three times. I am awed by Cormac McCarthy’s language in The Road. ‘The cold relentless circling of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Brett Gaylor
Jason says: “I take no joy in disliking RiP: A REMIX MANIFESTO. I agree with many of its principles; I’ve done plenty of highly-derivative works for fun in my time and think U.S. copyright law is out of control. But,
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Götz Spielmann
Starring: Andreas Lust | Irina Potapenko | Johannes Krisch | Johannes Thanheiser | Ursula Strauss
Jason says: “The Best Foreign Language Film Oscar often drives film nuts crazy. The countries’ film boards don’t submit the movie we consider their nation’s masterpiece for the year, and then at every cut (short list, nominees, winner) we get
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: David J. Francis | Mike Masters
Starring: David J. Francis | Mike Masters | Paul Fler | Sam Hall | Stephen Papadimitriou
Jason says: “ZOMBIE NIGHT is, I’m given to understand, a terrible movie, bottom-dozen of all-time bad. Thus it has a cult following. The sequel, to hear the filmmakers tell it, was better-made to the point of mediocrity, but paradoxically less
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brendan Toller
Michael says: “I NEED THAT RECORD – Record stores were a big part of my growing up and coming of age. I even managed one (albeit part of an evil chain) for several years. So Brendan Toller’s documentary, I NEED
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marshall Curry
Jason says: “I admit that I don’t give auto racing a whole lot of thought in general, but one aspect which I gave particularly little thought to was where new drivers come from. Make all the jokes about stock car
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hao Ning
Starring: Bo Huang | Cheung Yung | Jack Kao | Kong Jiu | Lifan Dong | Shaohua Ma | Zheng Xu
Jason says: “If I were to look over the reviews I’ve been writing over the past few weeks, I’d probably find I’ve used the word ‘crazy’ a lot, and generally meant it as a compliment, which I hope comes through.
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