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On My Way
Bernard Boo | April 4, 2014What’s surprising about On My Way, a latter-life crisis road trip film starring Catherine Deneuve, is that the film...
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The Raid 2: Berandal
Bernard Boo | April 3, 2014Welsh-born filmmaker Gareth Evans’ The Raid: Redemtion shook up the martial arts movie genre in 2011 with its exhilarating...
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Hide Your Smiling Faces
Dustin Jansick | April 3, 2014The title of the film serves as a grand forewarning for what unfolds in this atmospheric indie drama...
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Rob the Mob
Bernard Boo | April 2, 2014Rob the Mob opens with a robbery, but not the perilous kind the title suggests: In early 1990’s...
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Veronica Mars
Ananda Dillon | April 1, 2014“A long time ago, we used to be friends…” The theme song to Veronica Mars the TV show...
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Breathe In
Jonathan Andrews | March 28, 2014Breathe In, Drake Doremus’s second indie romance since Like Crazy (2011), follows the story of disaffected high school...
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Le Week-End
Colleen Munro | March 20, 2014If the success of films such as The Best Exotic Marigold, Hotel, Quartet, and Philomena have proven anything, it’s...
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Child’s Pose
Bernard Boo | March 20, 2014One of Romania’s most prominent actors, Luminita Gheorghiu bolsters her already glowing track record with Child’s Pose, a...
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It Felt Like Love
Dustin Jansick | March 17, 2014It Felt Like Love is an indie coming-of-age story about a young girl’s sexual exploration from first-time filmmaker...
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The Lunchbox
Bernard Boo | March 6, 2014It’s hard not to like a love story whose lovers are brought together by a home-cooked meal. Make...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
C.J. Prince | March 4, 2014Partway through The Grand Budapest Hotel, there’s an argument between Dmitri (Adrien Brody, looking brilliantly evil) and his...
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The Rocket
Bernard Boo | March 4, 2014In an early sequence in The Rocket, a Laos-set underdog fable by Australian filmmaker Kim Mordaunt, we see our...
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Grand Piano
Jonathan Andrews | March 3, 2014Every once in a while, we all see one of those special films – something that pushes the...
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7 Boxes
Bernard Boo | February 26, 20147 Boxes is a cat-and-mouse chase movie set in a seedy marketplace in the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, whose...
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SFFS Artist in Residence Sebastian Silva Talks The Gift of Spontaneity, ‘Magic Magic’
Bernard Boo | February 24, 2014“My biggest fear is for my mind to control me and not the other way around,”Chilean filmmaker Sebastian...