ft 1.jpg — Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

**Directed By: Amy Heckerling**
**Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 30m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Characters**
**Weakness: It Has Aged**

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

September 12, 2019

The students of Ridgemont High explore their burgeoning adulthood and all the relationships, responsibility, and awkwardness that adolescence brings.

he 1.jpg — The Hateful Eight (2015)

**Directed By: Quentin Tarantino**
**Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Channing Tatum, Bruce Dern, James Park**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 48m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Dialogue, Characters, Mystery**
**Weakness: None**

The Hateful Eight (2015)

August 2, 2019

With a blizzard on their trail, a bounty hunter, his bounty, and a couple of hitch hikers decide to hunker down at Millie’s Haberdashery for the next couple of days but with four additional occupants already there, tensions are high and patience is thin.

MV5BMGNmYWM1MDAtNjU1NS00YzA1LTgzZDQtMzIyMTNiNzkyNzBhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTI4MjkwNjA@._V1_SY1000_SX652_AL_.jpg — Short Cuts (1993)

**Directed by: Robert Altman**
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore, Mathew Modine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Penn, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robins, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Huey Lewis
**Rated: R for Graphic Sexual Language, and for Nudity**
**Running Time: 3 h 8 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Story, World Building**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Length**

Short Cuts (1993)

July 17, 2019

An anthology film concerning the interconnecting lives of Los Angeles residents.

s 1.jpg — **Synecdoche New York (2008)**

**Directed By: Charlie Kaufman**
**Starring: Philip Seymore Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Diane Wiest**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 4m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Emotional Connection, Surrealism**
**Weakness: Challenging Tone**

Synecdoche New York (2008)

April 3, 2019

Caden Cotard is a depressed and sick individual. As a theater director, his introspection often takes the form of a play but as his introspection grows, so does his depression, loneliness, and the scale of his experimental new play.

eXistenZ (1999)

October 2, 2018

Allegra Geller, a world famous game designer and Ted Pikul, a marketing trainee, go on the run after reality-enthusiast assassins try to kill Allegra.

Annihilation

**Directed by: Alex Garland**
**Starring: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar Isaac**
**Rated: R for Violence, Bloody Images, Language and Some Sexuality**
**Running Time: 1 h 55 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Visual Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Themes (?)**

Annihilation (2018)

March 1, 2018

A biologist with a military background is recruited by a mysterious agency to enter Area X, a location unlike anywhere else on earth, where she hopes to find a cure for her husband’s sudden and inexplicable sickness.

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