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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nadine Labaki
Michael says: “We saw this French/Lebanese co-production a couple months ago as part of the Sunday Eye Opener, but as it’s opening next weekend, I thought I’d mention it now. Billed as a bit of a STEEL MAGNOLIAS in Beirut,
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Colin Farrell | Ewan McGregor | Hayley Atwell | Peter-Hugo Daly | Philip Davis | Sally Hawkins | Tom Wilkinson
Jason says: “Woody Allen is a bitter old man, and has been for a while. As a young man, he looked at the world around him and laughed at the absurdity, but for the past decade or two his movies
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sarah Gavron
Starring: Christopher Simpson | Satish Kaushik | Tannishtha Chatterjee
Michael says: “Based on an internationally best-selling novel, BRICK LANE explores a plethora of theme including the nature of love, the Muslim community in Britain after 9/11, the empowerment of Indian women, and much more. Sarah Gavron, whose little seen
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Laurie Lynd
Starring: Ben Shenkman | Noah Bennett | Sheila McCarthy | Thomas Cavanaugh
Michael says: “BREAKFAST WITH SCOT was adapted from a lovely novel by Michael Downing that I read several years ago, and despite the fact that it features my husband’s name (correct spelling included) in the title, I had forgotten that
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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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