s+1.jpg — **The Sacrifice (1986)**

**Directed By: Andrei Tarkovsky**
**Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h 29m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Understated Tone, Long Takes, Thematic Integrity, Cinematography**
**Weakness: Maybe Pacing**

The Sacrifice (1986)

March 31, 2020

When WWIII threatens to annihilate his family and who knows how much of the rest of humanity, a retired aesthetics journalist and lecturer contemplates what he may be able to do to avoid cataclysm.

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**Directed by: Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman**
**Starring: Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton, Robert Prichard**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 25 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Practical Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Boring**

Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

October 4, 2019

The students at a high school near a nuclear power plant start behaving strangely after smoking irradiated marijuana.

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.

8173nTPEhfL._SL1500_.jpg — Blue Velvet (1986)

**Directed by: David Lynch**
**Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Frances Bay, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nance, Hope Lange, George Dickerson**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Style, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Lynchian-lite**

Blue Velvet (1986)

July 15, 2019

A young man discovers a severed human ear which leads him on an investigation that could uncover a dark underworld that dwells beneath the seemingly perfect streets of Lumberton.