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Director: Trey Parker
Starring: Kristen Miller | Masasa | Matt Stone | Trey Parker
Tom says: “Matt Stone and Trey Parker may have the subtlety of a sledgehammer, and their humor is usually pretty lowbrow but goddamnit if they don’t always make me wet my pants with laughter. “Some of you may have grown
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Chi McBride | Diego Luna | Stanley Tucci | Tom Hanks | Zoe Saldana
Bruce says: “Anyone wishing to argue Steven Spielberg’s shortcomings as a director need look no further than THE TERMINAL. This film is a textbook case. “Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a tourist from a fictional Eastern European country, who becomes
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Jonathan Caouette
Hilary says: “I am pleased that I finally made it to see this film. I was quite moved by Jonathan Caouette’s documentary/video diary/experimental film TARNATION. This multi-faceted piece had me completely engaged from the moment it came on the screen.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Diane says: “I recommend this rich docu by Morgan Spurlock, the engaging ‘star’ of the film, who went on a diet of pure McDonald’s for 30 days. Along the lines of a Michael Moore piece, Spurlock also travels the country
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Clémence Meyer | Emmanuelle Béart | Gaspard Ulliel | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Jean Fornerod | Samuel Labarthe
Michael says: “Tonight, Scot and I watched STRAYED, a French film directed by André Téchiné (ALICE AND MARTIN; THE WILD REEDS) that I missed during its brief run at the Kendall. I was particularly interested as it features Agnès Godard
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: John Palmer
Starring: Andre Noble | Brendan Fehr | Maury Chaykin | Sarah Polley
Bruce says: “Based on some Bruce La Bruce short stories, SUGAR is a dark, bleak, coming-of-age story. When Cliff (Andre Noble) turns eighteen his precocious ten year old sister suggests that he down a split of vodka, smoke a joint
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Doyle Jr.
Rob says: “There is a moment in BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) when Charles Fleischer says to an incredulous, time traveling Michael J. Fox, who has recently arrived in 2015 and just read (on a holographic billboard) of a
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Director: Byambasuren Davaa | Luigi Falorni
Starring: Amgaabazar Gonson | Chimed Ohin | Janchiv Ayurzana
Diane says: “Daily life of camel herders in Mongolia. Don’t know why this was chosen as the Closing Night Film of the International Film Festival of Boston; might be more appropriate to the Animal Channel. But pleasant, educational and nice
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Frank Oz
Starring: Bette Midler | Christopher Walken | Faith Hill | Glenn Close | Matthew Broderick | Mike White | Nicole Kidman | Roger Bart
Bruce says: “More is certainly less. The number of giant stars in a film is inversely proportionate to the number of cats it will receive. That’s a rule of thumb I should have memorized by now. THE STEPFORD WIVES roped
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Starring: David O'Hara | Deborah Kara Unger | Dexter Fletcher | Thomas Jane
Michael says: “Color me stunned. This was one enjoyable film! “Take your (anything but standard) biopic, add some bank robberies, some time in the big house, gun play and car chases, chic late ‘70’s fashion, steamy love scenes between a
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