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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: .75 cats
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Gabriel Byrne | Geraldine McEwan | James Purefoy | Jonathan Rhys-Meyers | Reese Witherspoon | Rhys Ifans
Diane says: “Yuk. Reese Witherspoon is a bad choice for the lead here–she really can’t carry it. Music is too heavy; scenes surprisingly clichéd; Nair’s liberties with the book to emphasize the India element (e.g., belly-dancing replaces a game of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Je-yong Lee
Starring: Do-yeon Jeon | Han-il Na | Hyeon-jae Jo | Mi-suk Lee | So-yeon Lee | Yang-ja Jeon | Yong-jun Bae
Diane says: “I read that this is the 10th iteration of Les liaisons dangereuses to hit the screen. In this very erotic Korean version, set in the 18th century with its sumptuous trappings, director Je-yong Lee uses a subplot of
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Director: Matthew Ryan Hoge
Starring: Chris Kline | Don Cheadle | Jena Malone | Ryan Gosling
Hilary says: “Generally interesting actors Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, and Jena Malone are wasted in this boring, heavy-handed tale of a teen who murders his ex-girlfriend’s brother.”
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Dermot Mulroney | Devon Alan | Eddie Rouse | Jamie Bell | Josh Lucas | Kristen Stewart | Patrice Johnson | Robert Longstreet
Bruce says: “**ATTENTION SPOILERS** “UNDERTOW is the latest film from David Gordon Green, director of GEORGE WASHINGTON and ALL THE REAL GIRLS. This is the first film which he did not write himself. Again, Green proves beyond a doubt that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yôji Yamada
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada | Nenji Kobayashi | Rie Miyazawa
Michael says: “I’ve been itching to see this film on DVD ever since Georgette mentioned how much she loved it several weeks ago. I’d never pegged Georgette for a martial arts kind of gal, and as it turns out, TWILIGHT
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jacob Tierney
Starring: Gary Farmer | Joshua Close | Michelle-Barbara Pelletier | Nick Stahl
Bruce says: “TWIST is a film about the hapless lives of teenage Toronto street hustlers. Like other films of this genre – JOHNS, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO and SUGAR – the bleakness and danger associated with doing drugs, turning tricks
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Bruno Dumont
Starring: David Wissak | Yekaterina Golubeva
Bob says: “David is an American photographer from LA. Katia is his girlfriend, and possibly his model. She speaks mostly French, but I get the feeling from her name and her accent that she may be Russian. The two of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Starring: Bernard Mazzinghi | Catherine Frot | Dominique Blanc | François Morel | Gilbert Melkhi | Lucas Belvaux | Ornella Muti | Valérie Mairesse
Barbara says: “I really liked AN AMAZING COUPLE and after seeing it was able to look back at ON THE RUN and think better of it. After seeing ON THE RUN Mary, Tim and I all sort of went ‘Huh?’
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Satoshi Kon | Shôgo Furuya
Starring: Aya Okamoto | Toru Emori | Yoshiaki Umegaki
Michael says: “While foraging through the trash on Christmas, three homeless friends, a teenaged girl, a transvestite, and a middle-adged man find a baby who has been abandoned. Rather than bringing the infant to the police, the three embark on
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Starring: Brian George | Jimi Mistry | Kris Holden-Ried | Kyle MacLachlan | Suleka Mathew | Veena Sood
Bruce says: “You were born in Kenya but all your ancestors were from India. You were raised in Canada and now you live away from your family in London. Who can you turn to? Cary Grant, of course. Alim (Jimi
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