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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Elizabeth Lo
Val says: “A wife discovers her husband is having an affair, and hires a specialist to get rid of the mistress, but not in the way you might think. “This documentary watches like a narrative, with gorgeous shot composition, characters,
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tracie Laymon
Starring: Barbie Ferreira | French Stewart | John Leguizamo | Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer | Rachel Bay Jones
Diane says: “My movie companion turned to me at the end of BOB TREVINO LIKES IT and said, ‘Maybe cinephiles would find some flaws in this movie, but it was just perfect.’ “So I won’t mention the occasional clunky dialogue.
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alex Barland | Ray Mendoza
Starring: Aaron Mackenzie | Alex Brockdorff | Cosmo Jarvis | D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai | Joseph Quinn
Diane says: “WARFARE is a recreated 2006 incident from the Iraq War, involving a group of mostly Navy SEALS. Co-director Ray Mendoza (along with Alex Garland) was part of the platoon. They used the testimony of platoon members to write the
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Maotao Hu | Tao Zhao | You Zhou | Zhou Lan | Zhubin Li
Michael says: “Zhangke Jia’s twelfth, full-length feature narrative, CAUGHT IN THE TIDES, is a challenging yet fascinating construction of his own past and present work to tell the tale of a woman searching for her beloved over decades. The film
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Isaiah Saxon
Starring: Emily Watson | Finn Wolfhard | Helena Zengel | Razvan Stoica | Willem Dafoe
Laks says: “THE LEGEND OF OCHI follows the story of Yuri, who is dressed in a bright yellow puffy jacket and begins with her hunting with her father and many brothers. We soon learn that they are hunting the Ochi
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Starring: Jessica Earnshaw
Diane says: “I am so glad I saw this movie. BABY DOE is a doc by Jessica Earnshaw about a grandmother who is on trial for leaving a newborn to die at the side of the road 25 years before.
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Director: Wendy Sachs
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Scott Briggs
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Rob Taylor
Starring: Danielle Vasinova | Eddie Griffin | Emily Sweet | Paula Abdul | Walter Koenig
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Lior Geller
Starring: Charlie MacGechan | Jeremy Neumark Jones | Oliver Jackson-Cohen
