ro 1.jpg — Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

**Directed By: Gareth Edwards**
**Starring: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn,**
**Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 13m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Broad Story Strokes, Climax**
**Weakness: Muddled Plot, Main Characters**

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

December 20, 2019

Jyn Erso has been living and surviving aimlessly since The Empire killed her mother and captured her father to help build the Death Star. When the rebellion asks her to join an effort to steal plans for the doomsday weapon

w 1.5.jpg — Willow (1988)

**Directed By: Ron Howard**
**Starring: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Billy Barty**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h 6m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Adventure, Story Structure, Characters**
**Weakness: A Little Slight**

Willow (1988)

November 8, 2019

A Dwarf is tasked with delivering a child, chosen to fulfill prophecy, to those who will protect it from the evil Queen Bavmorda.

taof 1.jpg — Tel Aviv on Fire (2019)

**Directed By: Sameh Zoabi**
**Starring: Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 1h 40m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Humor, Performances**
**Weakness: Cultural Jokes May Elude Americans**

Tel Aviv on Fire (2019)

November 6, 2019

Summary

A PA on Israel’s most popular soap opera, “Tel Aviv on Fire,” gets his big break when he starts using material from his real life to impress the show’s producers.

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**Directed by: Charles Barton**
**Starring: Bud Abbot, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert, Jane Randolph**
**Rated: NR (TMM Suggested PG for Some Scary Images)**
**Running Time: 1 h 23 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Comedy, Production Design, Writing, Wide Appeal**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Jokes Go On Too Long**

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

October 27, 2019

Two freight handlers encounter Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

September 30, 2019

After getting scammed out of their royalties, Jay and Silent Bob travel to Hollywood to stop a “Bluntman and Chronic” film.

lah 1.jpg — Last Action Hero (1993)

**Directed By: John McTiernan**
**Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance, Austin O'Brien**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 2h 10m**
**TMM Score: 5**
**Strengths: Arnold, Nostalgia, Meta**
**Weakness: Length, Kid Acting**

Last Action Hero (1993)

September 20, 2019

When a movie obsessed kid gets magically transported into his favorite action series of films, he finds out the difference between a movie world hero and a real life one.

a 1.jpg — Adaptation (2002)

**Directed By: Spike Jonze**
**Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 55m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Story, Acting**
**Weakness: None**

Adaptation (2002)

August 23, 2019

A writer struggles to complete a screenplay which is based on a book which was based on an article which was based on an incident which had transcendental effect on the author.

bg 1.jpg — The Brothers Grimm (2005)

**Directed By: Terry Gilliam**
**Starring: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Lena Headey, Peter Stormare, Jonathan Pryce**
**Rated: PG13**
**Run Time: 1h 58m**
**TMM Score: 3**
**Strengths: Unique High Concept, Some Laughs**
**Weakness: Dialogue, CGI**

The Brothers Grimm (2005)

July 11, 2019

Brothers Jake and Will Grimm are con-men grifting money from German villages in order to rid them of ‘supernatural entities,’ but when a French General forces them to uncover who is behind the disappearance of almost a dozen children, they discover that the supernatural isn’t just a figment of their imagination.

81d+sHqXu8L._SL1500_.jpg — The Cable Guy (1996)

**Directed by: Ben Stiller**
**Starring: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, Eric Roberts, David Cross, Owen Wilson, Andy Dick, Ben Stiller**
**Rated: PG-13 for Dark Thematic Elements and Crude Humor**
**Running Time: 1 h 36 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Unique Story, Some Humor**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Humor**

The Cable Guy (1996)

June 28, 2019

A lonely cable guy desperately seeks a new friend.

The Dead Don't Die (2019)

June 24, 2019

Centerville is just what it sounds like; an average small town. When two of its citizens are found dead and half eaten, it can only be one thing. Some sort of animal. Or several. Or maybe, ZOMBIES!!!

ts 1.jpg — Toy Story (1995)

**Directed By: John Lasseter**
**Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger**
**Rated: G Rated**
**Run Time: 1h 21m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Story, Humor**
**Weakness: None**

Toy Story (1995)

June 18, 2019

When Andy’s two favorite toys are lost they must set aside their rivalry and work together to find him again.

dq 1.jpg — The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

**Directed By: Terry Gilliam**
**Starring: Adam Driver, Jonathon Pryce, Joana Ribeiro, Stellan Skarsgard, Olga Kurylenko**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 12m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Production Design, Grand Concept**
**Weakness: Length**

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

May 2, 2019

Toby, a disillusioned director, recalls his younger days wherein he made a short film as a student, starring a peasant cobbler as Don Quixote. As he flees his current project he and the cobbler are reunited only to discover the cobbler believes he really is Don Quixote still, and Toby begins to slip into insanity himself.

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**Directed by: David F. Sandberg**
**Starring: Zachary Levi, Djimon Hounsou, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Asher Angel, Marta Milans, Adam Brody**
**Rated: PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Action, Language, and Suggestive Material**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Humor, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Never Breaks From Superhero Formula, Length**

Shazam! (2019)

April 8, 2019

A fourteen-year-old foster kid is granted new powers that allow him to turn into a superhero.

bb 1.jpg — The Blues Brothers (1980)

Directed By: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, James Brown
Rated: R
Run Time: 2h 13m
TMM Score: 5 Stars
Strengths: Performances
Weakness: Nothing

The Blues Brothers (1980)

March 6, 2019

When Jake Blues is released from prison, he and his brother Elwood are set on a mission from God, to save the orphanage they grew up in without tainting any of the money through illicit means.

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**Directed by:Carlos Lopez Estrada**
**Starring: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar**
**Rated: R for Language Throughout, Some Brutal Violence, Sexual References and Drug Use**
**Running Time: 1 h 35 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Humor, Gritty Feel**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Blindspotting (2018)

August 6, 2018

A social commentary comedy about two best friends- one black, one white- navigate the streets of Oakland, trying to stay out of trouble for three more days, until the black man gets off probation.

spring breakers 4.jpg — Spring Breakers (2012)

**Directed by: Harmony Korine**
**Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, James Franco, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1h 34m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Editing, Lighting, Energy**
**WEAKNESSES: Extreme Content**

Spring Breakers (2012)

August 1, 2018

When four high schoolers run away from their conservative homes to live it up over spring break, the idea of returning to their him drum lives pushes them to party harder and harder, rather than go home.

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