Van Helsing (2004)

October 28, 2018

A monster hunter travels to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula from hatching an evil plan.

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**Directed by: Paul Urkijo Alijo**
**Starring: Kandido Urgana, Uma Bracaglia, Eneko Sargardoy**
**Rated: MA**
**Running Time: 1 h 38 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Production Design, Make Up, Unexpected Humor**
**WEAKNESSES: Won’t Appeal to All Audiences**

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017)

October 27, 2018

A retelling of an ancient fable about a Blacksmith who captures a demon.

abm 1.jpg — The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

**Directed by: Terry Gilliam**
**Starring: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Robin Williams, Uma Thurman**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 2h 6m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars (Really Liked It)**
**STRENGTHS: Creativity, Fantasy, Performances**
**WEAKNESSES: Uneven, Slow in Spots**

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

October 26, 2018

The City is under attack by the Turks and while the government know it alls claim to have it all in hand, the townspeople are being treated with a theatrical presentation of the adventures of Baron Munchausen. That is, until the real Baron shows up and tells them that the siege outside their gates is really his fault, but not to fear. He will set it right, again.

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**Directed by: Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachvov**
**Starring: Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksey Glazyrin**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Some Frightening Moments)**
**Running Time: 1 h 17 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Irony, Cinematography, Some Special Effects, Historical Importance**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Special Effects, Scary Moments Feel Slightly Dated**

Viy (1967)

October 21, 2018

A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch, whom he murdered, which means spending three nights alone in her mausoleum.

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**Directed by: Trey Parker**
**Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Toddy Walters**
**Rated: R for Comic Gore/Violence, and Some Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 35 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Humor, Low Budget Gem, Writing, Some Songs, Locations**
**WEAKNESSES: It's Pretty Stupid, Pacing**

Cannibal! The Musical (1993)

October 20, 2018

A team of miners travels across the mountains only to be trapped in the winter. As the snows pile up the travelers are forced to turn to cannibalism, while singing!

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**Directed by: Andy Muschietti**
**Starring: Bill Skarsgard, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Fin Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer**
**Rated: R for Violence/Horror, Bloody Images, and for Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 15 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Characters, Story, Aesthetic**
**WEAKNESSES: It's Not That Scary**

It (2017)

October 18, 2018

In the summer of 1989, a group of outcast kids band together to fight a mysterious force that feeds on the children of the town.

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**Directed by: Stephen Chiodo**
**Starring: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Effects, Creature and Production Design, Comedy, Originality**
**WEAKNESSES: Tone (?), Some Jokes Didn't Land (?)**

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

October 18, 2018

Aliens that look like clowns attack a small town.

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**Directed by: John Landis**
**Starring: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 37 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Visual Effects, Writing, Atmosphere**
**WEAKNESSES: Weak Character Writing in One Major Scene**

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

October 17, 2018

Two American college students on a European holiday are attacked by a werewolf.

First Man (2018)

October 17, 2018

A look at the life of Neil Armstrong as he navigates the trials of Project Gemini and then prepares for the historic Apollo 11 Mission.

tk 1.jpg — Turbo Kid (2015)

**Directed by: Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell**
**Starring: Munro Chambers, Laurence Laboeuf, Michael Ironside**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1h 33m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Nostalgia, Practical Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Needs a Heavy Audience Buy In**

Turbo Kid (2015)

October 17, 2018

In 1997, after the Apocalypse, one comic book fan finds out that being a hero means acting like one to save their elvish platonic girl friend from the likes of an evil water baron.

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**Directed by: Eric Scott Johnson, Eric Machiela**
**Starring: Luke Klein, Gary Busey, Evan Koons, Joey Morgan, Jimmy Tatro**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG for Some Language and Crude Humor)**
**Running Time: 1 h 31 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Unconventionality**
**WEAKNESSES: Might Not Be Appropriate for Younger Children**

Camp Manna (2018)

October 15, 2018

Ian Fletcher, a ‘nonbeliever’, is sent to a Christian camp where he is forced to compete in The God Games.

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**Directed by: Gareth Evans**
**Starring: Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Kristine Froseth, Bill Miner**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Graphic Bloody Violence and Disturbing Material)**
**Running Time: 2 h 10 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Production Design, Atmosphere, Effects, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Content Will Deter Some Viewers, Some Plot Holes**

Apostle (2018)

October 15, 2018

A man journeys to an island that is home to a cult in an attempt to rescue his sister.

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**Directed by: Zack Snyder**
**Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell**
**Rated: R for Pervasive Strong Horror Violence and Gore, Language and Sexuality**
**Running Time: 1 h 50 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Practical Effects, Zombie Stuff**
**WEAKNESSES: Anytime the Characters Talk**

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

October 12, 2018

During a zombie outbreak, a group of survivors team up in a mall.

Silent Hill (2006)

October 11, 2018

A young girl’s recurring nightmares about Silent Hill, the place she was born, prompts he mother to take her to take her daughter there, only to find that Silent Hill is not at all what they thought it might be.

Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)

October 11, 2018

Years after the events of the first Silent Hill, Sharon Da Silva is called back to the decrepit town to save her father.

71JF2+G0gCL._RI_.jpg — A Knight’s Tale (2001)

**Directed by: Brian Helgeland**
**Starring: Heath Ledger, Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, James Purefoy**
**Rated: PG-13 for Action Violence, Some Nudity and Brief Sex-Related Dialogue**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Fun, Writing, Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: 2000s Version of Cool, Nike Product Placement, Rock Music Soundtrack Doesn’t Always Work**

A Knight's Tale (2001)

October 9, 2018

A peasant masquerades as a knight to feed himself and maybe win some glory.

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**Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber**
**Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Pablo Schreiber, Roland Moller, Hannah Quinlivan**
**Rated: PG-13 for Sequences of Gun Violence and Action, and For Brief Strong Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 42 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: It’s Exactly What You’d Expect**
**WEAKNESSES: It’s Exactly What You’d Expect**

Skyscraper (2018)

October 8, 2018

A security expert must save his family from a 225-story building that is besieged by criminals and also on fire.

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**Directed by: Ruben Fleischer**
**Starring: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed**
**Rated: PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Science-Fi Violence and Action, and For Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: It’s Hilarious, Some Action**
**WEAKNESSES: Acting, Writing, Directing, Logic, Story, Plot Holes**

Venom (2018)

October 5, 2018

While journalist Eddie Brock is working on a story he encounters a powerful symbiote and becomes an anti-hero.

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**Directed by: Jeremy Saulnier**
**Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgard, Riley Keough, Macon Blair**
**Rated: TV-MA**
**Running Time: 2 h 5 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Atmosphere, Practical Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Themes, Meaning (?)**

Hold the Dark (2018)

October 5, 2018

After wolves take three children from an isolated village, writer Russell Core is recruited by one of the parents to track down a boy in the Alaskan wilderness.

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**Directed by: Wojciech Has**
**Starring: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Nudity and Sexual Situations, and Foreboding Images and Themes)**
**Running Time: 2 h 4 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Writing, Directing, Acting, Editing, Ingenuity**
**WEAKNESSES: May Be Difficult to Follow First Time Through**

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

October 4, 2018

A man named Jozef visits a sanatorium where his father is staying, only to find that within its walls, time doesn’t behave the way it should.

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