h 1.jpg — Hunger (2008)

**Directed By: Steve McQueen**
**Starring: Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon, Michael Fassbender**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 1h 36m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Acting, Cinematography, Themes**
**Weakness: NA**

Hunger (2008)

March 5, 2020

A group of young Irish freedom fighters/terrorists commit to not washing until their demands for political status are met. After some appeasement, but not all, are made, one man commits to a hunger strike that will most likely cost him his life

Che: Part Two (2008)

January 3, 2020

In 1967, Che leads a small army against the Bolivian government.

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**Directed by: Steven Soderbergh**
**Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichir, Julia Ormond, Oscar Isaac, Edgar Ramirez**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Violence and Language)**
**Running Time: 2 h 14 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Directing, Acting, Perspective**
**WEAKNESSES: Depiction of a Controversial Figure**

Che: Part One (2008)

January 2, 2020

Ernesto Che Guevara and a band of Fidel Castro-led Cubans mobilize to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

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**Directed by: Darren Lynn Bousman**
**Starring: Paul Sorvino, Anthony Stewart Head, Alexa PenaVega, Paris Hilton, Sarah Brightman**
**Rated: R for Strong Bloody Violence and Gore, Some Drug and Sexual Content**
**Running Time: 1 h 38 m**
**TMM Score: 1.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Anthony Stewart Head, Some Songs, General Concept, Practical Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Paris Hilton, Most Songs, Overall Execution, Visual Effects**

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

October 9, 2019

After a wave of organ failures sweeps through the human populous, a genetics company begins manufacturing artificial organs. But if the recipients of those organs can’t pay, the company sends in a Repo Man to take their product back. A musical!

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**Directed by: Toby Wilkins**
**Starring: Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Rachel Kerbs**
**Rated: R for Violence/Gore Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 22 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Some Special Effects, Tension**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Pacing in Middle**

Splinter (2008)

October 6, 2019

After a convict and his girlfriend take a young couple hostage, a parasitic creature terrorizes them all.

w 1.jpg — Wall-E (2008)

**Directed By: Andrew Stanton**
**Starring: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Fred Willard**
**Rated: G**
**Run Time: 1h 38m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: First Act**
**Weakness: The Rest**

Wall-E (2008)

June 19, 2019

A lone robot cleaning up the garbage congested surface of Earth has his world turned upside down when he gets a visit from another functioning robot from off world.

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**Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro**
**Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Alexander, Seth MacFarlane, Anna Walton, Jeffrey Tambor, Luke Goss, John Hurt**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Sci-Fi Action and Violence, and Some Language**
**Running Time: 2 h**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Characters, Writing, Production Design, Expanded World**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Coincidental Moments**

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

April 18, 2019

The continuing adventures of Hellboy and his paranormal friends.

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.

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**Directed by: Marina Zenovich**
**Starring: Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer, Mia Farrow**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Thematic Elements and Sexual Dialogue)**
**Running Time: 1 h 39 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Presentation**
**WEAKNESSES:**

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)

January 11, 2019

An examination of the life of Roman Polanski; his work, and the scandal that caused him to flee the United States and remain a fugitive for forty years.

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**Directed by: Mike Leigh**
**Starring: Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zergman, Andrea Riseborough, Eddie Marsan**
**Rated: R for Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 58 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Directing, Themes**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

November 27, 2018

An optimistic schoolteacher living in London navigates her life trying to make the best of everything.

mi3 1.jpg — Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

**Directed by: Nina Paley**
**Starring: Annette Hanshaw, Assem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally**
**Rated: NR**
**Running Time: 1h 22m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directorial Conviction, Music, Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing and Simple Animation**

Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

September 7, 2018

Sita and Rama, figures from the Vedas and Upanishads, are banished to a wild land of demons and monsters. When Sita is kidnapped by the king of the Rakshasa, Ravana, Rama must rescue her, but will he believe that she remained faithful during her stay with Ravana.

In Bruges (2008)

September 6, 2018

A young hitman for the mob is sent to Bruges, a quaint touristy medieval town, after a hit doesn’t go as planned. With nothing interesting to distract him, he is left alone with his thoughts, and his guilt over past actions.

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**Directed by: Oliver Assayas**
**Starring: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jeremie Renier, Edith Scob**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG for Thematic Materials Including a Drug Reference)**
**Running Time: 1 h 43 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing, Directing, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Summer Hours (2008)

August 13, 2018

Three siblings must decide what to do with their deceased mother’s estate.

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