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.

Broadcast News (1987)

September 16, 2019

A behind the scenes look at the lives of two male television reporters and one female producer, all of whom are incredibly driven.

61a0fvXyuWL._RI_.jpg — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

**Directed by: John Hughes**
**Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1 h 43 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Humor, Inventive Writing, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Pacing**

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

September 13, 2019

A popular high school student skips school and his principal tries to catch him in the act.

MV5BMDY0MzE3YWQtZTAzMS00ZmRlLWE3NzYtMjk0NDlkMmE4N2U2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTAwMzUyOTc@._V1_.jpg — Nashville (1975)

**Directed by: Robert Altman**
**Starring: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall, Robert DoQui, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin, Barbara Harris, Jeff Goldblum**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h 40 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Satire**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Nashville (1975)

September 13, 2019

An ensemble film that satires American culture and politics in the 1970s.

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.

71onlDHdUML._RI_.jpg — Superbad (2007)

**Directed by: Greg Mottola**
**Starring: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Emma Stone, Bill Hader, Seth Rogen**
**Rated: R for Pervasive Crude and Sexual Content, Strong Language, Drinking, Some Drug Use and a Brief Violent Image - All Involving Teens**
**Running Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 4.5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Nostalgic, Hilarious Characters, Trend Setter**
**WEAKNESSES: Convenient Story Beats**

Superbad (2007)

September 11, 2019

The final year of high school better be the best one for three friends.

ea 1.jpg — Easy A (2010)

**Directed By: Will Gluck**
**Starring: Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Run Time: 1h 32m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Humor**
**Weakness: Harsh Treatment of Specific Group**

Easy A (2010)

September 11, 2019

When responsible and uncool high school student Olive helps a gay friend stay in the closet, by pretending she had sex with him, her popularity booms and she finds out just how alluring the rumor mill’s power of popularity really is.

MV5BODE2NjE4NjYyMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNzk3MjQ0OTE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg — The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

**Directed by: Kelly Fremon Craig**
**Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Kyra Sedgwick, Woody Harrelson, Hayden Szeto**
**Rated: R for Sexual Content, Language and Some Drinking- All Involving Teens**
**Running Time: 1 h 44 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Humor**
**WEAKNESSES: A Few Cheesy Moments**

The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

September 10, 2019

Life gets more complicated for a high school student after her best friend starts dating her brother.

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

September 9, 2019

A young girl whom lives in a surreal and fantastical world, finds herself being quested after, influenced, and tricked by vampires, bishops, men and women alike as she approaches womanhood.

ka 1.jpg — Kick Ass (2010)

**Directed By: Matthew Vaughn**
**Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mark Strong, Christopher Mintz-Plasse**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 57m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars (I liked it)**
**Strengths: High Concept, Nicolas Cage, Fun**
**Weakness: Acting**

Kick Ass (2010)

September 6, 2019

Dave, a comic book nerd high school outcast, is tired of the petty crimes surrounding him and decides to fight back. Inspired by his love of comic heroes, he becomes Kick Ass the crime fighter. If only he had powers.

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

September 6, 2019

After a British pilot miraculously survives jumping from his plane without a parachute, all the powers of heaven convene for a court case to see if he should be allowed to live.

MV5BMDZkODI2ZGItYTY5Yi00MTA4LWExY2ItM2ZmNjczYjM0NDg1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzY0MTE3NzU@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg — Men in Black: International (2019)

**Directed by: F. Gary Gray**
**Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Rebecca Ferguson, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Kumail Nanjiani**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sci-Fi Action, Some Language and Suggestive Material**
**Running Time: 1 h 54 m**
**TMM Score: 1.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Tessa Thompson**
**WEAKNESSES: Story Structure, Directing, Pacing**

Men in Black: International (2019)

September 3, 2019

The Men in Black search for a mole amongst their ranks.

Three Colors: White (1994)

August 30, 2019

After his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.

91430xto51L._SL1500_.jpg — The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

**Directed by: Wojciech Has**
**Starring: Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewksa**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Nudity and Thematic Elements)**
**Running Time: 3 h 2 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Unexpected Humor, Production Design, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Length**

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

August 28, 2019

A soldier in a war finds a book that recounts a tale of a soldier traveling through Spain and meeting a variety of characters, many of who have stories of their own to tell.

MV5BMzM5NjUxOTEyMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjEyMDM0MDE@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_.jpg — The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

**Directed by: Wes Anderson**
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Matthiew Amalric, Adrein Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Billy Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Lea Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson
**Rated: R for Language, Some Sexual Content and Violence**
**Running Time: 1 h 39 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Mis-En-Scene, Writing, Production Design, Characters, Story, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

August 26, 2019

The adventures of the legendary concierge Gustave H at the famous Grand Budapest Hotel between the first and second World Wars.

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.

aoo 1.jpg — Army of One (2016)

**Directed By: Larry Charles**
**Starring: Nicolas Cage, Russell Brand, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Paul Scheer, Will Sasso, Rainn Wilson**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 32m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Nic Cage**
**Weakness: Uninspired Directing, Pacing**

Army of One (2016)

August 22, 2019

When Gary Faulkner is told by God to go get Osama Bin Laden he struggles with his Holy Quest/Life balance.

MV5BYzFjNzIxMmEtMzY5NS00YTgzLTkwYWEtN2FjMmY0NmNkZWY3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_.jpg — Face/Off (1997)

**Directed by: John Woo**
**Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Alessandro Nivola, Joan Allen**
**Rated: R for Intense Sequences of Strong Violence, and For Strong Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 18 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Practical Effects and Stunts, Ridiculous Performances, Bizarre Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Logic, Hokey 90s Moments**

Face/Off (1997)

August 21, 2019

An FBI agent undergoes a facial transplant surgery to work his way into a terrorist sect, but the plan goes awry when the terrorist whose face he stole impersonates the FBI agent.

h+1.jpg — Hook (1991)

**Directed By: Steven Spielberg**
**Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h 22m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Production Design**
**Weakness: Tinker Bell, Length**

Hook (1991)

August 16, 2019

Peter Banning is a your classic workaholic father. When he travels to England with his family to visit the woman who adopted him so many years ago his children are kidnapped by a magical pirate and Peter must face his past and destiny as the real Peter Pan the story-books were based upon.

MV5BMTc5MzUxMjk4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTEzNDk4NjE@._V1_.jpg — Darkman (1990)

**Directed by: Sam Raimi**
**Starring: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake, Bruce Campbell**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 36 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Tone, Writing, Original Character**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Weaker Story Elements**

Darkman (1990)

August 9, 2019

A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact vengeance on the people who tried to kill him.

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