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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9
Director: Nicole Kassell
Starring: Benjamin Bratt | Eve | Kevin Bacon | Kyra Sedgwick | Mos Def
Bruce says: “The subject of THE WOODSMAN is child abuse. In this emotionally difficult film Kevin Bacon plays Walter, a parolee who has recently exited prison. He is noticing that the world looks a lot younger. That may not be
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Bernard Hill | Eleanor Bron | James McAvoy | Jon Favreau | Kirsten Dunst | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Paul Bettany | Sam Neil
Bruce says: “Being a huge tennis fan, I approached WIMBLEDON with certain trepidation. Would this romantic comedy be as bad as I feared? The answer is ‘no, it wasn’t really bad at all,’ although it should have been much better.
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Bruce says: “**SPOILERS AHEAD** “Wilbur and his brother Harbour live behind the used bookstore which their late father had run for many years. Their mother died when Wilbur was just five. Wilbur was the favorite child of both his parents;
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Starring: Alexandra Aidini | Giorgos Armenis | Nikos Poursadinis
Bruce says: “TRILOGY: THE WEEPING MEADOW begins with a group of Greek refugees from Odessa who have fled the Bolshevik revolution and are now approaching Thessalonica where they will ultimately settle in the mud flats along the river. The image
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Curran
Starring: Laura Dern | Mark Ruffalo | Naomi Watts | Peter Krause
Beth says: “I missed the first minutes of WE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE which, despite starring Naomi Watts, Laura Dern, Mark Ruffalo and Peter Krause, was horrible. Sooo booooring! It’s about two couples, the women and men each best friends
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Adrien Brody | Bryce Dallas Howard | Joaquin Phoenix
Rob says: “A purveyor of film-flammery like Michael Moore is, quite rightly, called to task when he presents a story in a lazy and disingenuous manner, and so, too, shall M. Night Shyamalan. The writer/director/producer of the epic fluke THE
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Deborah Kampmeier
Starring: Daphne Rubin-Vega | Elisabeth Moss | Robin Wright Penn
Michael says: “I was so intrigued by the premise and the preview of this little American indie, but it turned out to be a disappointing mess. Deborah Kampmeier’s first film follows a young woman, whose family are all born again
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Audrey Tautou | Gaspard Ulliel | Jean-Pierre Becker
Howard says: “I found this winning tale of hope quite wonderful. It’s a romantic mystery film about a young woman never giving up even though all signs point to her finance lying dead in the middle of a WWI battlefield.
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Eddie Marsan | Imelda Staunton | Phil Davis | Richard Graham
Bruce says: “When Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) is instructed by a jail matron to take off her wedding ring, she wrinkles her face in pain and says ‘I can’t. It’s never been off in twenty seven years.’ She does manage
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Starring: Carmen Maura | Julieta Cardinali | Rodrigo Noya
Michael says: “This lovely Argentinian film certainly feels like the filmmaker looking back on his childhood (I actually have no absolutely nothing about this filmmaker, so I don’t know if that’s true or not.) Alejandro Agresti has written and directed
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