Knife in the Water (1962)

June 13, 2019

A couple picks up a hitchhiker on their way to a sailing trip and decides to bring him along.

12 M 1.jpg — 12 Monkeys (1999)

**Directed By: Terry Gilliam**
**Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 9m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Story, Directorial Vision**
**Weakness: Some Acting**

12 Monkeys (1995)

June 12, 2019

A man, possibly insane, is experiencing schizophrenic visions or possibly time travel. It’s hard for him to tell or know which version of reality is true as he attempts to track down the perpetrators of a world wide terrorist strike.

91pGkNSGySL._RI_.jpg — Fallen (1998)

**Directed by: Gregory Hoblit**
**Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2h 4m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Great Ideas, Good Atmosphere**
**WEAKNESSES: Weak Direction/Writing**

Fallen (1998)

June 11, 2019

A detective and his partner track down a supernatural killer.

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**Directed by: Roman Polanski**
**Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Violence, and Disturbing/Sexual Content)**
**Running Time: 1 h 45 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Production Design, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Repulsion (1965)

June 11, 2019

A sex-repulsed young woman slowly sinks into madness.

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**Directed by: Rob Marshall**
**Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Wantanabe, Koji YakushoSuzuka Ohgo, Samantha Futerman, Li Gong, Tsai Chin, Kaori Momoi**
**Rated: PG-13 for Mature Subject Matter and Some Sexual Content**
**Running Time: 2 h 25 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production and Costume Design, Pacing, Story, Cinematography, Music**
**WEAKNESSES: Themes, Mischaracterization of Characters, It’s in English (?)**

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

June 10, 2019

In 1920-50s Japan, a young girl is sold into slavery at a geisha house and must work hard to find her place in the world.

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**Directed by: David Gordon Green**
**Starring: Danny McBride, James Franco, Rasmus Hardiker, Natalie Portman, Toby Jones, Justin Theroux, Zooey Deschanel, Charles Dance, Damian Lewis**
**Rated: R for Strong Crude and Sexual Content, Pervasive Language, Nudity, Violence and Some Drug Use**
**Running Time: 1 h 42 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Humor, Some Writing, Production Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Humor, Some Writing, Narrow Target Audience**

Your Highness (2011)

June 7, 2019

After Prince Fabious’s Bride is kidnapped, he goes on a quest to rescue her, accompanied by his lazy useless brother Thadeous.

The New World (2005)

June 6, 2019

When the British arrive in Virginia, they expect to find a new land teeming with gold and people who are outclassed in weaponry, religion, and culture. What they find instead is a young woman who discovers that not all new worlds are physical places.

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Directed by: The Wachowskis
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie Anne-Moss, Jada Pinkett-Smith
Rated: R for Sci Fi Violence and Brief Sexual Content
Running Time: 2h 9m
TMM Score: 2 Stars
STRENGTHS: Some Okay Action, Looks Good
WEAKNESSES: Lazy Writing, Bland Conclusion

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

June 6, 2019

The third and final chapter of The Matrix trilogy

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

June 5, 2019

The sequel to The Matrix

s 1.jpg — Scanners (1981)

**Directed By: David Cronenberg**
**Starring: Stephen Lack, Jeniffer O’Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Ironside**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 43m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Special Effects, Surreal Atmosphere**
**Weakness: Confusing Plot Thread**

Scanners (1981)

June 5, 2019

A man discovers he possesses psychic powers and soon finds he might be the only one who can stop a rogue psychic who keeps killing people with his powers.

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**Directed by: Michael Dougherty**
**Starring: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe, Ziyi Zhang, Bradley Whitford, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch, Sally Hawkins, O’Shea Jackson Jr.**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Monster Action Violence and Destruction, and For Some Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 11 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Kaiju Stuff, Special Effects, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: People Stuff, Story, Plot Holes Galore, Harebrained Schemes and Ideas, Dialogue**

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

June 4, 2019

Godzilla faces off against a wave of monsters as humans from Monarch try to figure out a way to communicate with the beasts.

The Silence (2019)

June 4, 2019

A family must survive in silence after apocalyptic monsters are unleashed.

m 1.jpg — The Matrix (1999)

**Directed By: The Wachowskis**
**Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 16m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Effects, Story, Action Sequences**
**Weakness: Unimpressive Acting**

The Matrix (1999)

June 4, 2019

Thomas Anderson is a hacker, obsessed with something called The Matrix, which even he doesn’t know what it is. When another hacker named Trinity introduces him to a cyber-terrorist terrorist named Morpheus, he finds out that nothing about the world he thought he knew is true.

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**Directed by: Jim Sheridan**
**Starring: Daniel Day Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson**
**Rated: R for Language and Politically-Generated Violence**
**Running Time: 2 h 13 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Uneven Pacing, A Bit Dramatic**

In The Name of the Father (1993)

June 3, 2019

The true story of Gerry Conlon, whom was falsely imprisoned after he was coerced into signing an untrue confession admitting guilt to an IRA bombing.

The Painted Veil (2006)

May 31, 2019

A British doctor helps fight a cholera epidemic in China whilst dealing with increasing threats to westerners by Nationalists. His unfaithful wife begrudgingly joins him.

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**Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise**
**Starring: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki**
**Rated: PG for Some Scary Moments**
**Running Time: 2 h 5 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Animation, Story, Characters, Fun, Worldbuilding**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Spirited Away (2001)

May 30, 2019

A young girl wanders into the realm of the spirits and begins working at the magical bathhouse that resides there.

91r6ErURNeL._SL1500_.jpg — Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Christian Bale, Emily Mortimer, Billy Crystal
Rated: PG for Frightening Images, And Brief Mild Language
Running Time: 1h 59m
TMM Score: 4.5 Stars
STRENGTHS: Animation, Themes, Characters, Lots of Fun
WEAKNESSES: Ending

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

May 29, 2019

A woman must break a curse with the help of demigod, Howl.

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**Directed by: Isao Takahata**
**Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi**
**Rated:NR (Suggested PG-13 for Disturbing Content and Images)**
**Running Time: 1 h 29 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Perspective, Animation, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing**

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

May 29, 2019

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

The Wind Rises (2013)

May 29, 2019

A fantastical character study of Jiro Horikashi, the man who designed the Mitsubishi Zero Fighter Plane.

2017 1.jpg — Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Directed By: Rupert Sanders
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano
Rated: PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Sci-Fi Violence, Suggestive Content, and Some Disturbing Images
Run Time: 1h 47m
TMM Score: 2 Stars
Strengths: Action Sequences, Some Production Design Elements
Weakness: Story, Acting, Characterizations

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

May 28, 2019

Major Mira Killian will stop at nothing to track down Section 9’s greatest enemy, a cyber terrorist, callsign: The Puppetmaster. As she unravels the mystery behind him, will she unravel herself in a miasma of blocked memories and identity? Are these all just byproducts of being a cyborg?

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