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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jay Duplass
Starring: Kathryn Asleton | Mark Duplass | Rhett Wilkins
Chris says: “The titular piece of furniture is an old burgundy La-Z-Boy purchased on E-bay by Josh (Mark Duplass). He sets off from New York with his girlfriend Emily (Kathryn Aselton) to pick up the chair in rural Virginia so
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Emily Watson | Guy Pearce | Ray Winstone | Tom Budge
Chris says: “This Aussie western sports the first screenplay to be written by goth rock legend Nick Cave. Like a good number of the man’s songs, it’s darkly poetic, somewhat macabre, heavily death-obsessed, more than a little bloody and ponderously
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Adam Curtis
Bruce says: “Of all the political documentaries to come out in the past few years THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES is the most innovative in its thinking. According to Curtis the neo-con movement and the fundamentalist Muslim movement both had their
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Im Sang-soo
Starring: Jae-ho Song | Suk-kyu Han | Yun-shik Baek
Bruce says: “It is no secret that the President of South Korea will be assassinated in THE PRESIDENT’S LAST BANG; after all we are told on screen that it is 1979 and we know the film is based on fact.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: The Quay Brothers
Starring: Amira Cesar | Assumpta Serna | Gottfried John
Bruce says: “Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay have quite a reputation (albeit primarily as animators) considering THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is just their second feature film. They were born in the USA but studied film in England where
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Carlos Saurin
Starring: Juan Villegas | Rosa Valsecchi | Walter Donado
Bruce says: “EL PERRO (sometimes advertised as BOMBON, EL PERRO) is a delightful film. Set in Patagonia, the story is paper thin but the sentiment is sincere thanks to a lovely performance by Juan Villegas. He plays Coco, an aging
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Starring: Antoine Chappey | Bruce Myers | Jacques Perrin | Jalil Lespert | Jean Lespert | Nathalie Baye | Patrick Chauvel | Roschdy Zem
Hilary says: “Nathalie Baye (VENUS BEAUTY INSTITUTE, etc.) stars in this glacially-paced French neo-noir. “Baye plays a veteran police officer returning to the detective squad following some personal drama. One of the squad’s new recruits, Antoine (Jalil Lespert), anxiously awaits
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rachel Boynton
Bruce says: “It is 2002 and Goni (Alberto Sanchez de Lozada), the former president of Bolivia, is seeking to regain office he held from 1993-1997. When his finds himself lagging behind Manfred (Reyes Villa) in the polls, he panics and
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Dominic Harari | Teresa Pelegri
Starring: Guillermo Toledo | María Botto | Marián Aguilera
Bruce says: “Leni (Marián Aguilera), a nice Jewish girl, brings her boyfriend Rafi (Guillermo Toledo) home to meet the extended family. Rafi has one major disadvantage in this household; he is Palestinian. Leni’s belly-dancing sister Tania (María Botto) is wildly
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Daniel London | Tanya Smith | Will Oldham
Chris says: “Mark (Daniel London) and Kurt (cult folk-rocker Will Oldham) were once close friends; now both in their mid-30s, they’ve grown apart as friends often do. Mark has a career and a partner and is about to become a
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