tmwktm 1.jpg — The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 1h 15m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Clever Plot, Brevity**
**Weakness: Slight**

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

January 31, 2020

When an American Family, vacationing abroad, gets mixed up in an assassination plot, the couple must choose between stopping an international coup or saving their kidnapped daughter.

MV5BMTAxNDA1ODc5MDleQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDg2MDA4OTEx._V1_.jpg — The Birds (1963)

**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright, Suzanne Pleshette**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1 h 59 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Characters, Story, Sound Mixing, Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Slightly Schlocky, Some Character Choices**

The Birds (1963)

January 31, 2020

A wealthy woman from San Francisco takes a trip to a Northern Californian town where she and the residents are inexplicably attacked by flocks of birds.

fc 1.jpg — Foreign Correspondent (1940)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Cinematography, Execution of Some Sequences.**
**Weakness: Seems Slight, Dated Sentimentality, Weak Love Story**

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

January 31, 2020

John Jones is tasked with drumming up the news of what is going on in Europe during the lead up to WW2. As he probes for information he witnesses an assassination, falls in love with the daughter of a peace broker, and even avoids assassination himself. Whatever it takes to get the scoop.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Intense, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Dated Material**

Rear Window (1954)

January 30, 2020

A wheelchair-bound photographer and his girlfriend believe they might’ve stumbled upon a murder.

mwktm 1.jpg — The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie , Bernard Miles**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Sense of Impending Tragedy, Tension**
**Weakness: Child Acting, Annoying Song**

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

January 29, 2020

When American family, travelling abroad, the McKenna’s, meet a friendly but mysterious Frenchman, they are caught up in an international assassination plot with more than just the life of the Prime Minister at stake.

Vertigo (1958)

January 29, 2020

At the request of a friend, a former detective investigates an acquaintance’s wife, whom has been acting mysterious. As he does, he finds himself falling in love with the woman.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger**
**Rated: Approved**
**Running Time: 1 h 20 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Humor, Technical Aspects, Writing, Suspense**
**WEAKNESSES: Obvious Cuts**

Rope (1948)

January 28, 2020

Two men try to prove they’ve committed a perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate.

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**Directed by: Guy Ritchie**
**Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Strong, Colin Ferrell, Henry Goulding, Eddie Marsan**
**Rated: R for Violence, Language Throughout, Sexual References and Drug Content**
**Running Time: 1 h 53 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Some Writing, Some Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Thinks It’s More Clever Than It Is, Pacing, Some Acting**

The Gentlemen (2019)

January 27, 2020

A drug lord tries to sell his empire to a billionaire, but things get complicated.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Acting, Soundtrack, Editing, Cinematography, Subversion of Expectations**
**WEAKNESSES: Psychiatrist Monologue**

Psycho (1960)

January 27, 2020

A secretary steals forty thousand dollars and absconds from Phoenix, but things take a turn for the worse after she checks into a motel run by a peculiar young man and his domineering mother.

71T+hc-NRaL._RI_.jpg — Ride with the Devil (1999)

**Directed by: Ang Lee**
**Starring: Tobey McGuire, Jewel Kilcher, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tom Wilkinson, Margo Martindale, Jim Caviezel, Mark Ruffalo**
**Rated: R for Graphic War Violence**
**Running Time: 2 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Cinematography, Action**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing, Some Acting**

Ride with the Devil (1999)

January 24, 2020

During the American Civil War, two friends join a band of Confederate guerrilla fighters known as the Bushwackers.

coos 7.jpg — Color Out of Space (2019)

**Directed By: Richard Stanley**
**Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, Tommy Chong , Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Josh C. Waller, Q'orianka Kilcher**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 51m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**Strengths: Lighting and Color, Nic Cage, Cosmic Dread**
**Weakness: Some CGI and Acting Moments**

Color Out of Space (2019)

January 24, 2020

When a meteor crash lands near their home in the New England woods, one family is given a glimpse of the universe outside their capacity to grasp without insanity inducing effect.

Ford-v-Ferrari(109).jpg — Ford v Ferrari (2019)

**Directed by: James Mangold**
**Starring: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Tracy Letts**
**Rated: PG-13 for Some Language and Peril**
**Running Time: 2 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing, Technicality, Extremely Entertaining**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Ford v Ferrari (2019)

January 23, 2020

Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles attempt to build a car that can outrace Ferrari at the La Mons race.

mf 1.jpg — Midnight Family (2019)

**Directed By: Luke Lorentzen**
**Starring: Fer Ochoa, Josue Ochoa, Juan Ochoa**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 1h 20m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Immersion, Cinematography**
**Weakness: Lack of Subtextual Themes**

Midnight Family (2019)

January 23, 2020

The Ochoa family operates a private ambulance in corrupt, poor, and under-serviced Mexico City districts.

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**Directed by: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani**
**Starring: Elina Lowensohn, Stephane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin, Michelangelo Marchese, Marc Barbe, Pierre Nisse**
**Rated: Unrated (Suggested R for Graphic Nudity and Strong Violence)**
**Running Time: 1 h 32 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Cinematography, Pacing, Editing, Ennio Morricone, Sound Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Style Over Substance, Sometimes Difficult to Tell What’s Going On, Also Editing**

Let the Corpses Tan (2017)

January 22, 2020

Thieves with a trunkful of gold bullion hide out at an old mission where they encounter a bohemian artist and his muse. As cops arrive at the mission, bullets begin to fly.

dj 1.jpg — Don Jon (2013)

**Directed By: Joseph Gordon-Levitt**
**Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Brie Larson**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 30m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Realistic Depictions of Subject Matter**
**Weakness: Uninspired Cinematography**

Don Jon (2013)

January 21, 2020

Jon is a New Jersey dream son and friend. He values work, family, and church, but, unbeknownst to his new girlfriend Barbara, pornography has shaped much of how he views relationships and women and he’s only beginning to realize what those effects are.

Split Second (1992)

January 20, 2020

In 2008 dystopian London, global warming has caused flooding, and Detective Harley Stone must wade his way through the streets to find a vicious serial killer whom might not be human.