Director Charles Chaplin Staring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie Rated G Legendary Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime. This weekend marked the 76th anniversary of the release in New York of Charlie Chaplin’s first all-talking all-sound movie The Great Dictator.…
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JFF — The Mohican Comes Home
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Director Shûichi Okita Staring Yûdai Chiba, Akira Emoto, Atsuko Maeda Recommended for ages 12+ Score 5/6 Metal-head Eikichi leaves his struggling music career to return to his family in a small island village off the coast of Shikoku. Sporting a mohawk, he comes home for the first time in seven years to introduce his clueless…
JFF — The Magnificent Nine
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Director Yoshihiro Nakamura Staring Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yûko Takeuchi, Ryûhei Matsuda Recommended for ages 12+ Score 5/6 Times are tough in samurai Japan: the feudal lord’s harsh taxes are dragging an outpost town into poverty. Local merchant Juzaburo fears for the town’s future, and hatches a secret plan to end their misery. The outrageous mission: collect…
Hacksaw Ridge
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Director Mel Gibson Staring Teresa Palmer, Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington Rated MA In Australian Cinemas November 3 Score 5/6 WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor. For those…
JFF — Rudolf the Black Cat
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Director Mikinori Sakakibara & Kunihiko Yuyama Staring Sandayû Dokumamushi, Arata Furuta, Mao Inoue Rated All ages Score 6/6 Ever wondered what your cat gets up to when you’re not around? Naïve stay-at-home cat Rudolf has always longed to roam the streets of his little neighborhood. His thirst for adventure finds him lost miles away in…
Japanese Film Festival – Erased
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Director Yûichirô Hirakawa Staring Tatsuya Fujiwara Tamae Andô, Kasumi Arimura, Yasushi Fuchikami Rated Under 15s must be accompanied by an adult. Score 6/6 Satoru Fujinuma is a manga artist struggling to find inspiration. He experiences a phenomenon he calls ‘revival’: an ability that forces him to relive the moments preceding life-threatening incidents over and over…
Deepwater Horizon
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Director Peter Berg Staring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin Rated M Score 3/6 On April 20th, 2010, one of the world’s largest man-made disasters occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. As interesting a subject for a movie The Deepwater Horizon I kind have to wonder about my decision to…
Joe Cinque’s Consolation
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Director Sotiris Dounoukos Staring Maggie Naouri, Jerome Meyer, Sacha Joseph Rated TBC Score 5/6 On 26 October 1997, Australian National University student Anu Singh killed her boyfriend, Joe Cinque, by lacing his coffee with Rohypnol and injecting him with heroin at a dinner party where some of the guests had heard about the plan to…
Rampage : President Down
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Director Uwe Boll Staring Brendan Fletcher, Loretta Walsh, Dan Shea Rated MA Score 5/6 Bill Williamson is back, alive and well and doing a recon mission around D.C. This time he wants to cause a major population disruption within the USA which result in devastating consequences reverberating throughout the world. His new mission this time…
Shin Godzilla
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Director Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi Staring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara Rated TBC Score 5/6 Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster. Before we get started I have a small message for Legendary Pictures and the filmmakers involved with the production of the last Godizilla ‘reboot’ Director Gareth…