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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alex Orr
Starring: Ana Chlumsky | Katie Rowlett | Marla Malcolm | Matt Hutchinson | Mike Brune
Jason says: “BLOOD CAR has an idea that has loads of potential, introduces it in witty fashion, and an ending that is just gleefully over the top. It’s also got a half hour or forty-five minutes (out of seventy-five) between
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Stefan Forbes
Bruce says: “In many minds Lee Atwater remains one of the more despicable characters on the political landscape within the past several decades. Many think Atwater was Machiavellian. While that may sound damning to most people, one man claimed at
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Alice Braga | Don McKellar | Gael García Bernal | Julianne Moore | Mark Ruffalo | Yoshino Kimura | Yusuke Iseya
Beth Curran says: “Okay, I first must talk about the spectacle first – the film’s premiere was at the Elgin, and it was beyond zooey. Seating took forever, and it was unbelievable how large the reserved section was. While looking
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: José Luis Cuerda
Starring: Javier Cámara | Maribel Verdú | Raul Arevalo
Beth Curran says: “Maribel Verdu (Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN; PAN’S LABYRINTH) is a tour de force in this drama set in Spain during the 40’s, a few years after the end of the Civil War. Her husband, a republican, has
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: James Crump
Bruce says: “Robert Mapplethorpe achieved world-wide fame and notoriety in the 1980’s when his stunning black and white photographs became iconic and his reputation for being lewd, lurid and lascivious mushroomed. Little about Mapplethorpe having a partner is ever mentioned.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jennifer Venditti
Michael says: “Jennifer Venditti’s feature debut emerged from a short film she cast called BUGCRUSH. When looking for some high school extras in a small town in Maine, she met Billy, a precocious, geeky, high school outcast and knew instantly
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Chris Bell
Chris says: “As a short kid growing up in Poughkeepsie in the 1980s, Christopher Bell and his brothers Mark and Mike were picked-on outcasts until the tremendously pumped-up likes of Hulk Hogan and Arnold Schwarzenegger came along and saturated American
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jay Delaney
Jason says: “NOT YOUR TYPICAL BIGFOOT MOVIE isn’t really about cryptozoology. It may have started out that way, but given how little actual information one is likely to find about the mythical creature and how unlikely it is that a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Beth Murphy
Jason says: “Humanity is still around as a species because most of its members are basically good. They need to be, because one person giving into his or her more destructive impulses can create damage that require the actions of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Santosh Sivan
Starring: Jennifer Ehle | Linus Roache | Nandita Das | Rahul Bose
Bruce says: “**SPOILERS** “During the British Raj, Britain’s nearly 100-year rule of India, Britain attempted to maintain a myth of white male supremacy while raping a country many times its size of natural resources. To say that the Brits were
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