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**Directed by: Frank Pierson**
**Starring: Barbara Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2h 19m**
**TMM Score: 2 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Concert Set Pieces**
**WEAKNESSES: Strains Believability, No Emotional Connection**

A Star Is Born (1979)

October 11, 2018

The rowdiest mis-behaving-ist Rock Star in the game discovers a lounge singer who, he believes, has what it takes to be the next big thing. What does the next big thing mean for the last big thing?

MV5BOTYyODk2MTE3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjY5OTQwNjM@._V1_.jpg — Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)

**Directed by: Sonny Lennon, Tommy Wiklund**
**Starring: Thomas Lennon, Nelson Franklin, Jenny Pellicer, Charlyne Yi**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Strong Graphic Violence, Sexual Content and Nudity, and Language- All Involving Puppets)**
**Running Time: 1 h 30 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Puppets, Practical Effect, Concept**
**WEAKNESSES: Writing, Acting, Story, Tone**

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)

October 10, 2018

A comic book writer travels to a convention where he hopes to sell a rare puppet, but the puppet has other intentions.

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**Directed by: David Schmoeller**
**Starring: Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 30 m**
**TMM Score: 1.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Puppets**
**WEAKNESSES: Literally Everything Else**

Puppet Master (1989)

October 10, 2018

A group of psychics attend a funeral for an old colleague, only to be attacked by murderous sentient puppets.

MV5BNTYzMDYzMzA1MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODUzODg2NDM@._V1_.jpg — Unsane (2018)

**Directed by: Steven Soderbergh**
**Starring: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah**
**Rated: R for Disturbing Behavior, Violence, Language, and Sex References**
**Running Time: 1 h 38 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Distractingly Bad Cinematography, Pacing**

Unsane (2018)

October 9, 2018

A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, believing her stalker has purposefully brought her there. Is it all in her head, or is it really happening?

MV5BMTg5Njg1MzIwNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDU1NjczMDI@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_.jpg — A Cure for Wellness (2016)

**Directed by: Gore Verbinski**
**Starring: Dane Dehaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth**
**Rated: R for Disturbing Violent Content and Images, Sexual Content Including an Assault, Graphic Nudity, and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 26 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Cinematography, Soundtrack**
**WEAKNESSES: Acting, Pacing, Dialogue, Length**

A Cure for Wellness (2016)

October 9, 2018

A wealthy young executive is sent to a retreat in the Swiss Alps to retrieve his company’s CEO, only to find the spa where the CEO is staying might hold some dark secrets.

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.

Three Identical Strangers (2018)

October 9, 2018

New York. 1980. Three complete strangers find each other because they discover they are triplets, but why were they separated at birth and what will lives as brothers be like?

MV5BMTEzNDk1MzM4MDleQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDM2NTI4ODEy._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,675,1000_AL_.jpg — A Dark Song (2016)

**Directed by: Liam Gavin**
**Starring: Catherine Walker, Steve Oram, Mark Huberman**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Thematic Material and Some Disturbing Imagery)**
**Running Time: 1 h 40 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Pacing, Message**
**WEAKNESSES: Ending Won’t Work For Everyone, Not Scary for Genre Hardened Fans**

A Dark Song (2016)

October 8, 2018

A young woman teams up with an occultist to attempt a dangerous but powerful ritual; in doing so they risk their lives and souls.

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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: Paul Verhoeven**
**Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 42 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Effects, Writing, Story, B-Movie Gold**
**WEAKNESSES: Not For Everyone**

RoboCop (1987)

October 8, 2018

Set in future in a crime-ridden Detroit. A mortally wounded cop returns to the force as a cyborg, but is haunted by memories of his past.

MV5BMjA2MTEzMzkzM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjM2MTM5MDI@._V1_.jpg — The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

**Directed by: Andre Ovredal**
**Starring: Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond**
**Rated: R for Bloody Horror Violence, Unsettling Grisly Images, Graphic Nudity, and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 26 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Brian Cox, Effects, Atmosphere, Simplicity of Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Emile Hirsch, Some Dialogue**

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

October 8, 2018

A father and son coroner team performs an autopsy on a body of an unknown woman discovered at a crime scene, only to find her body harbors some grim secrets.

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**Directed by: Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman**
**Starring: Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Disturbing Material, Some Violence and Language)**
**Running Time: 1 h 38 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Cinematography, Unique Story Structure**
**WEAKNESSES: Twist Ending, Second Anthology Story, Pacing**

Ghost Stories (2017)

October 7, 2018

A Professor bent on debunking popular ghost stories and psychics is given a file of three cases that a ghost expert couldn’t crack.

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**Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi**
**Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Miskako Wantanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Some Frightening Moments)**
**Running Time: 3 h 3 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Stories, Culture, Mis-en-scene**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Kwaidan (1964)

October 7, 2018

An anthology film of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

MV5BMGYxZDEzMDMtMDIzNy00OTQ5LTkzYmItYzdkYTgxMGRkOWVmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_.jpg — Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

**Directed by: E Elias Merhige**
**Starring: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Cary Elwes**
**Rated: R for Some Sexuality, Drug Content, Violence and Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Production Design, Atmosphere, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Cinematography, Small Target Audience (?)**

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

October 6, 2018

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is complicated by the demands and habits of lead actor Max Schreck.

MV5BZDFlZTI1NmItODgyMy00ZjNmLWI1YTItYzMzMDZkMjM2NGI0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTM5MzIwMjQ@._V1_SY1000_SX676_AL_.jpg — Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

**Directed by: Peter Strickland**
**Starring: Toby Jones, Antonio Mancino, Guido Adorni**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Some Disturbing Thematic Material)**
**Running Time: 1 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Sound Design, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Artistic Nature Will Deter Normal Genre Fans**

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

October 6, 2018

A British sound engineer travels to Italy to help finish a horror film, only to find working on the film is a literal nightmare.

MV5BMTU3MTQyNjQwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDgxNDczNTM@._V1_.jpg — Venom (2018)

**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: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead**
**Starring: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Emily Montague**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Strong Language, Some Violence, and Drug Use)**
**Running Time: 1 h 33 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Pacing, World-Building**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting**

Resolution (2012)

October 5, 2018

A man travels to an isolated cabin to help his estranged best friend overcome meth addiction, only to find the cabin might hold dark secrets.

MV5BMTU3NjMxNTYwOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzM5NzAzNjM@._V1_.jpg — Hold the Dark (2018)

**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.

MV5BNjA5OTI1MjgwMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDU2NzY2NDM@._V1_SY999_CR0,0,676,999_AL_.jpg — The Endless (2017)

**Directed by:Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead**
**Starring: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Language, Violence and Some Disturbing Material)**
**Running Time: 1 h 51 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Pacing, Atmosphere**
**WEAKNESSES: Climax, Special Effects**

The Endless (2017)

October 5, 2018

Two brothers return to a cult they left when they were teenagers, only to discover the cult might not be as crazy as they once seemed.

MV5BMjMwNzM2OTk3OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjExOTU0NDE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,675,1000_AL_.jpg — Spring (2014)

**Directed by: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead**
**Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Francesco Carnelutti**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Disturbing Images, Some Sexuality/Nudity and Language)**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Cinematography, Story, Some Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Some Effects**

Spring (2014)

October 5, 2018

After Evan looses his Mom and his job in the same week, he heads to Italy, where he meets Louise, a seemingly perfect girl. But underneath her skin, Louise hides a secret.

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