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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG for Thematic Material)**
**Running Time: 1 h 42 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Acting, Writing, Story, Pacing, Classic Hollywood Charm**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Notorious (1946)

August 6, 2019

An American agent recruits a woman with ties to Nazis in South America. After they find themselves falling in love, he finds out her mission is to seduce a man with possible ties to future Nazi plots.

Punch-Drunk Love

**Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson**
**Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman**
**Rated: R for Strong Language Including a Scene of Sexual Dialogue**
**Running Time: 1h 35m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Direction, Cinematography, Writing, Performances**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

August 6, 2019

A man with crippling social anxiety finds love.

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

August 5, 2019

After her daughter is raped and killed, a mother in a small town puts up three billboards asking the police department why they haven’t found the killer.

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**Directed by: Wayne Blair**
**Starring: Gwilym Lee, Miranda Tapsell, Kerry Fox, Ursula Yovich**
**Rated: NR (TMM Suggested: PG-13 for Some Sexual Humor)**
**Running Time: 1 h 43 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cultural Insights, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Plausibility, Stupid Character Choices, Repeated Jokes**

Top End Wedding (2019)

August 4, 2019

After Ned and Lauren get engaged, they have ten days to find Lauren’s mom who has gone off the grid somewhere in the remote parts of Australia, reunite her parents and pull of a wedding.

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**Directed by: Dan Krauss**
**Starring: Alexander Skarsgard, Nat Wolff, Adam Long**
**Rated: R for Language Throughout, Violent Content and Drug Use**
**Running Time: 1 h 27**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Themes, Directing, Cinematography, Alexander Skarsgard**
**WEAKNESSES: Emotional Connection, Mild Acting**

The Kill Team (2019)

August 4, 2019

An young American soldier faces a moral dilemma when his commanding officer starts to use questionable methods in their missions.

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**Directed by: Timothy Busfield**
**Starring: Jeff Daniels, Thomas Marcias, Erika Slezak**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Language)**
**Running Time: 1 h 14 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Themes, Jeff Daniels**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Shaky Acting, Pacing, Audio**

Guest Artist (2019)

August 4, 2019

An alcoholic playwright travels to Michigan to prepare for his next play, where a man who idolizes him will pick him up from a train station.

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**Directed by: Scott Crawford**
**Starring: Alice Cooper, Cameron Crowe, Joan Jett, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons**
**Rated: NR (Suggested: R for Language and Suggestive Material)**
**Running Time: 1 h 15 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Raw Unfiltered Energy**
**WEAKNESSES: Focus, Some Technical Aspects**

Boy Howdy: The Story of Creem Magazine (2019)

August 3, 2019

A look at the rise and fall of Creem Magazine.

kdth 1.jpg — Knock Down the House (2019)

**Directed By: Rachel Lears**
**Starring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Joe Crowley**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 1h 26m**
**TMM Score: 2 Stars**
**Strengths: Name Recognition**
**Weakness: Simple, Uninspired**

Knock Down the House (2019)

August 3, 2019

Motivated by feelings of frustration, tragic personal loss, and community outcry, 4 women across the United States challenge entrenched and secure incumbent federal legislative seats during the 2018 midterm primary elections.

Safe Spaces (2019)

August 3, 2019

An incident at his college paired with a family emergency causes a NYC professor to reevaluate his life, values, and the current political climate.

Cache (2005)

August 2, 2019

A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes that are left on their front door.

he 1.jpg — The Hateful Eight (2015)

**Directed By: Quentin Tarantino**
**Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Channing Tatum, Bruce Dern, James Park**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 2h 48m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Dialogue, Characters, Mystery**
**Weakness: None**

The Hateful Eight (2015)

August 2, 2019

With a blizzard on their trail, a bounty hunter, his bounty, and a couple of hitch hikers decide to hunker down at Millie’s Haberdashery for the next couple of days but with four additional occupants already there, tensions are high and patience is thin.

tb 1.jpeg — Time Bandits (1981)

**Directed By: Terry Gilliam**
**Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, David Warner, David Rappaport, Kenny Baker, Malcom Dixon, Jack Purvis, Craig Warnock**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 1h 50m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Imagination, Fun**
**Weakness: Child Acting**

Time Bandits (1981)

August 1, 2019

Kevin’s parents barely notice him between their TV watching and wishing for every new invention being offered to them on TV so when a gang of diminutive, bickering, time-traveling robbers accidentally end up in his room one night he is only too eager to go with.

1*DrGUVaTZJe8m5_MuVmtv_g.jpg — Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

**Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron**
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Warwick Davis, Bonnie Wright, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, David Bradley, Tom Felton, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane
**Rated: PG for Frightening Moments, Creature Violence and Mild Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 22 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Cinematography, Use of Magic, Production Design, Acting, Writing, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting**

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

July 31, 2019

Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to attend classes, only this year an escaped murderous lunatic stalks him.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

July 31, 2019

The boy wizard Harry Potter continues his education and misadventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

July 31, 2019

The fourth entry in the Harry Potter series pits him up against his greatest challenge yet: The Triwizard Tournament.

Hard Eight (1996)

July 30, 2019

A man makes it big in gambling with the help of a mentor, but all good things must come to an end…

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**Directed by: Jonathan Levine**
**Starring: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, Bob Odenkirk, Alexander Skarsgard, Randall Park, Andy Serkis, O’Shea Jackson Jr., June Diane Raphael, Ravi Patel**
**Rated: R for Strong Sexual Content, Language Throughout and Some Drug Content**
**Running Time: 2 h 5 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Themes, Writing, Acting, Humor**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Length**

Long Shot (2019)

July 30, 2019

Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush Charlotte Field, whom is preparing to run for president.

The Last Emperor (1987)

July 29, 2019

The story of Pu Yi the last emperor of China.

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**Directed by: Quentin Tarantino**
**Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino**
**Rated: R for Language Throughout, Some Strong Graphic Violence, Drug Use, and Sexual References**
**Running Time: 2 h 41 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Characters, Acting, Story, Homage, Cameos, Soundtrack, Humor**
**WEAKNESSES: Absolutely Nothing**

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

July 27, 2019

An aging TV star and his stunt double try to achieve fame and fortune in the last years of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

91jYEVUzrVL._RI_.jpg — House of Games (1987)

**Directed by: David Mamet**
**Starring: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, William H Macy**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 42 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Acting**

House of Games (1987)

July 26, 2019

After a psychiatrist/bestselling author comes to the aid of one of her clients, a compulsive gambler, she finds herself led by a smooth-talking grifter into the world of con men.

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