Movies for August 2019: Inherit The Wind and Laura

Don is hosting in August and the movies to see are:

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Director: Stanley Kramer
Writers: Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith, Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly

Laura (1944)

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

Director: Otto Preminger
Writers: Vera Caspary, Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Ring Lardner Jr.
Stars: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price

Scores for July 2019 Films

Eighth Grade (2018)  5.78 / 10
Cyrus (2010)  6.22 / 10

Films of Merit

• Casablanca
• Celia
• Chernobyl
• Murder of Crows
• Ozark
• Pavarotti
• The Last Czars
• Yesterday

Movies for July 2019: Cyrus and Eighth Grade

Joe is hosting in July, and because of the holiday, we will meet on Wednesday, July 10th.

The movies to see are:

Cyrus (2010)

John and Molly, a divorced middle aged man and a single mother meet at a friends party and start up a small relationship, all John has to do now is meet Molly's son...

Directors: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Writers: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
Stars: John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill

Eighth Grade (2018)

 An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

Director: Bo Burnham

Writer: Bo Burnham

Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson

Scores for June 2019 Movies

Seven Days in May (1964)  7.33 / 10
A Face in the Crowd (1957)  6.22 / 10

Films of Merit

• All in the Family and The Jeffersons live enactments (TV specials)
• Avengers: Endgame (2019)
• Chernobyl (TV series)
• Day for Night (1973)
• Dead to Me (TV series)
• Fosse/Verdon (TV series)
• Hannah Arendt (2012)
• Russian Doll (TV series)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• The Biggest Little Farm (2018)
• Wanda Sykes Live

Movies for June 2019: Seven Days in May and Face In The Crowd

John C is hosting in June and the movies to see are:

Seven Days in May (1964)

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Director: John Frankenheimer
Writers: Fletcher Knebel (novel), Charles W. Bailey II (novel), Rod Serling
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation. As he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?

Director: Elia Kazan
Writers: Budd Schulberg (story), Budd Schulberg (screenplay)
Stars: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa

Scores for May 2019 Movies

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) 7.1 / 10
Amazing Grace (2018) 6.1 / 10

Films of Merit

• A Private War (2018)
• Imposters (TV series)
• Peaky Blinders (TV series)
• The Grifters (1990)
• The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (2018)
• The Mustang (2019)
• The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
• The Tunnel (TV series)
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Zombie Cats from Mars (2015)

Movies for May 2019: What Happened, Miss Simone? and Amazing Grace

Jon L is hosting in May and the movies to see are:

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

 A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul."

Director: Liz Garbus

Stars: Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie

Amazing Grace (2018)

 A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.

Directors: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack

Stars: Aretha Franklin, Reverand James Cleveland, C.L. Franklin

Scores for April 2019 Movies

At Eternity's Gate (2018)  6.25 / 10
Apollo 11 (2019)  9.22 / 10

Films of Merit

• 5 Flights Up (2014)
• After Life (TV series)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Atlantic City (1980)
• Bandits (2001)
• Delhi Crime (TV series)
• Heaven Can Wait (1978)
• Private Life (2018)
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
• The Death of Stalin (2017)
• The Grifters (1990)
• The Highwaymen (2019)
• The Wife (2018)

Movies for April 2019: Apollo 11 and At Eternity's Gate

Bill T is hosting in April and the movies to see are:

At Eternity's Gate (2018)

A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

Director: Julian Schnabel
Writers: Jean-Claude Carrière, Julian Schnabel, Louise Kugelberg
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac

Apollo 11 (2019)

 A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins.

Director: Todd Douglas Miller

Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Joan Ann Archer, Janet Armstrong 

Scores for March 2019 Films

Cold War (2018)  6.75 / 10
Never Look Away (2018)  8.67 / 10

Films of Merit

• Accused (2005)
• Batshit Valley (2019)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) 
• Batshit Valley (2019)
• Endeavour (TV series)
• Free Solo (2018)
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
• Inspector Morse (TV series)
• Leaving Neverland (2019)
• Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
• On the Basis of Sex (2018) 
• Paddleton (2019)
• Russian Doll (TV series)
• Secret City (TV series)
• Shetland (TV series)
• The Big Sick (2017) 
• The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
• Wallander (TV series - Swedish)

Movies for March 2019: Never Look Away and Cold War

Nic is hosting in March and the movies to see are:

Cold War (2018)

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Writers: Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki, Piotr Borkowski

Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc 

Never Look Away (2018)

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Stars: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer

Scores for February 2019 Films

Roma (2018)  8.0 / 10

Shoplifters (2018)  6.5 / 10

Films of Merit

A Private War (2018)

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Eulogy (2004)

Game of Thrones (TV series)

On the Basis of Sex (2018)

Stan & Ollie (2018)

The Favourite (2018)

The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

The Wife (2017)

True Detective (TV series)

Movies for February 2019: Shoplifters and Roma

Dean is hosting in February and the movies to see are:

Shoplifters (2018)

A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writers: Hirokazu Koreeda (original story), Hirokazu Koreeda (screenplay)
Stars: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka

Roma (2018)

A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey

Scores for January 2019 Films

Vice (2018)  5.36 / 10
All the President's Men (1976)  8.73 / 10

Films of Merit

About Time (2013)

Bodyguard (TV series)

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Bosch (TV series)

Burning (2018)

Casablanca (1942)

Get Me Roger Stone (2017)

If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017)

Inside Out (2015)

Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)

Land Girls (TV series)

Mary Poppins (1964)

Patriot (TV series)

The Kominsky Method (TV series)

The Price of Everything (2018)

Trotsky (TV series)