Backyard (Mexico; 122 min.) directed by: Carlos Carrera starring: Ana de la Reguera; Asur Zagada; Marco Pérez; Ivan Cortes; Joaquín Cosio; Alejandro Calva Ivy says: “I saw this film at TIFF because I have always been curious about this
Read the review...Asylum Seekers (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Rania Ajami
Starring: Bill Dawes | Camille O'Sullivan | Daniel Irizarry | Judith Hawking | Pepper Binkley | Stella Maeve
Jason says: “It’s a hoary old chestnut, but one that has stuck in the English language every since Shakespeare first used it in Hamlet because here’s a truth contained in it: ‘Method to madness.’ It’s not enough to just say
Read the review...Applause (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Starring: Lars Brygmann | Michael Falch | Noel Koch Søfeldt | Otto Leonardo Steen Rieks | Paprika Steen | Shanti Roney
Bruce says: “At the 2007 premiere of her film WITH YOUR PERMISSION at the Toronto International Film Festival Paprika Steen announced that she and the film’s star, Lars Brygmann, would be playing George and Martha in Copenhagen in the spring
Read the review...American Grindhouse (2011)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elijah Drenner
Jason says: “Cinema lovers: Have you spent your time in theaters and at the video store working your way through the Criterion Collection, absorbing the work of international masters, and seeing the most acclaimed films of a century of motion
Read the review...Animal Kingdom (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: David Michôd
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn | Guy Pearce | Jacki Weaver | Joel Edgerton | Luke Ford | Sullivan Stapleton
TC says: “This Aussie crime thriller is an amazingly taut, heart-stopping ride from beginning to end. The story of a Melbourne crime family on the way down as seen from J, the 18-year-old nephew of the family whose mother kept
Read the review...Amer (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Bruno Forzani | Hélène Cattet
Starring: Bianca Maria D'Amato | Cassandra Forêt | Delphine Brual | Harry Cleven | Marie Bos
Jason says: “The most popular phrases being used to describe AMER tend to include the word giallo – it is giallo-inspired, reminiscent of the giallo films of the 1970s, etc., etc. This is true, but also misleading, because such descriptions
Read the review...Air Doll (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Arata | Du-na Bae | Itsuji Itao | Jô Odagiri | Sumiko Fuji
Michael says: “One day an inflatable air doll, a substitute for sexual pleasure, wakes up to find she has a heart. She is self-animated, self-aware, and filled with wonder as she discovers the world around her. On a meandering sojourn
Read the review...Aftershock (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Starring: Chen Li | Daoming Chen | Fan Xu | Guoqiang Zhang | Jin Chen | Jingchu Zhang | Yi Lu
Jason says: “It’s not hard to get the wrong impression of AFTERSHOCK; the poster in the theater lobby notes that it was released in IMAX (interestingly, though showing the North American release date, the text on that one-sheet is almost
Read the review...Agora (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Ashraf Barhorn | Max Minghella | Michael Lonsdale | Oscar Isaac | Rachel Weisz | Rupert Evans
Jason says: “I adore AGORA, and I’ll readily admit that a large part of it is that I agree with the politics and philosophy of the thing. Rather than it being a movie about a scientist who encounters something her
Read the review...Action Replayy (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Starring: Aditya Roy Kapoor | Aishwarya Rai | Akshay Kumar | Alok Kumar | Neha Dhupia | Randhir Kapoor
Jason says: “Western movie fans may have some doubts about the provenance of Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s new film, ACTION REPLAYY. It’s an adaptation of a 1994 play with almost the same name (the play spells it correctly), although Warner Brothers,
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