Interstellar (2014)

August 28, 2018

A team of astronauts travels through a wormhole in search of a planet that might support mankind.

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**Directed by: Walter Murch**
**Starring: Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 53 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Production Design, Atmosphere**
**WEAKNESSES: Trouble Finding Target Audience**

Return to Oz (1985)

August 27, 2018

Six months after the tornado took Dorothy to Oz, she must return to help lift the curse that a witch and the Nome king have placed across the land.

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**Directed by: John Waters**
**Starring: Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Jean Hill, Edith Massey**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 30 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Unique Story, Bizarre Production Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Content**

Desperate Living (1977)

August 24, 2018

After a neurotic woman murders her husband with the help of her maid, they flee to a strange town called Mortville, which is ruled over by a fascist queen.

MV5BMTY5NzgyMjUwOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjc2NjQzMTE@._V1_.jpg — Female Trouble (1974)

**Directed by: John Waters**
**Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey**
**Rated: NC-17**
**Running Time: 1 h 29 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Eccentricity**
**WEAKNESSES: Content, Acting(?), Cinematography**

Female Trouble (1974)

August 24, 2018

A spoiled high school girl runs away from home and has to turn to a life of crime to support herself.

fantastic planet.jpg — Fantastic Planet (1973)

**Directed by: Rene Laloux**
**Starring: Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Valmont**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1h 12m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Animation**
**WEAKNESSES: Obvious Typology**

Fantastic Planet (1973)

August 23, 2018

On a distant world, human like creatures, fed up with their animal like lives, rebel against their gigantic blue alien masters.

parnassus 1.jpg — The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

**Directed by: Terry Gilliam**
**Starring: Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger, Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Andrew Garfield, Verne Troyer**
**Rated: PG13**
**Running Time: 2h 3m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Story Concept**
**WEAKNESSES: Visual Effects, Uneven Story Structure**

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

August 22, 2018

An Ancient Storyteller and his band of entertainers, travel the world, opening people’s imaginations and competing with The Devil to enthrall their souls. Now, a new wager, threatens the life of his daughter who may be falling for a mysterious, dashing, and shady new member of their troupe.

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**Directed by: Brian Henson**
**Starring: Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Kevin Bishop**
**Rated: G**
**Running Time: 1 h 39 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Humor, Innocence, Fun, Music, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Not As Tight As Other Muppet Movies**

Muppet Treasure Island (1996)

August 17, 2018

The Muppets embark on a quest to Treasure Island.

8 1/2 (1963)

August 15, 2018

A director scrambles to come up with an idea for his next picture.

fear 1.jpg — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

**Directed by: Terry Gilliam**
**Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1h 58m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Originality, Acting, Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Sound Mix**

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

August 15, 2018

A sports writer detours to Las Vegas while on assignment and struggles to pull his drug riddled brain and body out of the city that seems to always pull him back in.

house 1.jpg — House (1977)

**Directed by: Nobuhiko Obayashi**
**Starring: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba**
**Rated: NR (Best Guess: R)**
**Running Time: 1h 28m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Atmosphere, Concept, Unique Feeling of Nostalgia/Terror**
**WEAKNESSES: Sound Mix/Distracting Music**

House (1977)

August 14, 2018

A group of High School/College girlfriends visit the home of one of the girl’s aunt’s, for the holidays. That wouldn’t be a problem if she wasn’t a child eating witch who has eaten all the girls from the nearby village.

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**Directed by: Richard Fleischer**
**Starring: Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1 h 29 m**
**TMM Score: 1 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Practical Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Literally Everything Else**

Red Sonja (1985)

August 10, 2018

Red Sonja, a fiery warrior, seeks revenge on the evil queen that murdered her entire family. Meanwhile the evil queen seeks to use a magic orb for darkness.

91zeY8ObC-L._RI_.jpg — Kull the Conqueror (1997)

**Directed by: John Nicolella**
**Starring: Kevin Sorbo, Tia Carrere, Thomas Ian Griffith**
**Rated: PG-13 for Fantasy Action Violence and Sensuality**
**Running Time: 1 h 35 m**
**TMM Score: 1.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Interesting Premise**
**WEAKNESSES: Execution of Everything**

Kull the Conqueror (1997)

August 10, 2018

After Kull is named the successor to a Kingdom, the kingdom’s heirs conspire to overthrow him by resurrecting an evil sorceress.

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**Directed by: Marcus Nispel**
**Starring: Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan, Stephen Lang**
**Rated: R for Strong Bloody Violence, Some Sexuality and Nudity**
**Running Time: 1 h 53 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Gloriously Gory, Silly Sword and Sorcery Premise, Production Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Acting, Directing, Writing, Pacing**

Conan the Barbarian (2011)

August 10, 2018

Conan the Barbarian seeks vengeance on the warlord that killed his father, while the warlord tries to find a power that will help him to resurrect the dead.

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**Directed by: Richard Fleischer**
**Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 43 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Effects, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Acting, Dialogue, Some Effects**

Conan the Destroyer (1984)

August 10, 2018

A queen asks Conan to help her daughter princess retrieve a ceremonial horn from a dungeon so they resurrect a god named Dagoth.

Solomon Kane (2009)

August 10, 2018

After an encounter with a demon that tells him his soul is bound for hell, a mercenary renounces his ways of violence for a life of peace, but when he’s forced to travel back to his homeland, his vow of peace is tested.

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

August 10, 2018

A barbarian seeks vengeance on the sorcerer that slew his parents when he was a child.

Eraserhead Poster.jpg — Eraserhead (1977)

**Directed by: David Lynch**
**Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph**
**Rated: NR (Best Guess PG-13)**
**Running Time: 1h 29m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Overall Directorial Vision**
**WEAKNESSES: It's Weird Dude.**

Eraserhead (1977)

August 9, 2018

A strange man in a strange world is forced to marry a strange woman when he gets her pregnant. She has a strange baby which she cannot console so she leaves the man and he kills the baby. The baby might be an alien. Strange.

popeye 1.jpg — Popeye (1980)

**Directed by: Robert Altman**
**Starring: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1h 54m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS:When the movie is a cartoon.**
**WEAKNESSES: When the movie is a movie**

Popeye (1980)

August 3, 2018

A strange sailor, in search of his father, drifts into a ramshackle town. He’ll find more family than he bargains for as the town of Sweet Haven finds a hero.

spring breakers 4.jpg — Spring Breakers (2012)

**Directed by: Harmony Korine**
**Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, James Franco, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1h 34m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Editing, Lighting, Energy**
**WEAKNESSES: Extreme Content**

Spring Breakers (2012)

August 1, 2018

When four high schoolers run away from their conservative homes to live it up over spring break, the idea of returning to their him drum lives pushes them to party harder and harder, rather than go home.

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**Directed by: King Hu**
**Starring: Lingfeng Shangguan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai**
**Rated: NR (Suggested: PG-13 for Martial Arts Action Violence)**
**Running Time: 1 h 51 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Action, Cinematography, Story, Acting, Pacing**
**WEAKNESSES: Melodramatic Moments**

Dragon Inn (1967)

July 26, 2018

Traveling swordsmen discover a plot to assassinate the two remaining members of a defeated general’s family and decide to intervene.

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