191. Blindspotting
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Carlos López Estrada
Actors: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin
Plot: Three days before his probation officially ends, Oakland native Collin, doing everything he can to keep clean (curfew, avoiding drugs and holding down a job), witnesses a police officer gunning down a defenseless man. This throws his world off balance as he contends with his hot-headed friend Miles and tries to reconcile with his girlfriend, Val.
192. Paddington 2
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Paul King
Actors: Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Julie Walters
Plot: Paddington has found a happy home with the Brown family, as well as becoming a popular figure in the local community. With his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday coming up, he finds himself picking up odd jobs in order to save away for the perfect present. Disaster strikes, however, when he finds the gift only to have it stolen away shortly after.
193. Jodorowsky's Dune
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Frank Pavich
Actors: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger, Chris Foss, Brontis Jodorowsky, Devin Faraci
Plot: Alejandro Jodorowsky is a cult filmmaker best known for his surrealistic tales El Topo, The Holy Mountain and Santa Sangre. Yet in the mid 1970s, he attempted to create his masterpiece - adapting Frank Herbert's 1965 novel, Dune, to the big screen. Spending $2 million to convince the likes of artist H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali, actor Orson Welles and musician Mick Jagger and to help in creating his epic, he failed to convince investors (and a purported hours long running time didn't help) and in the end was a failed vision. But the director still has his Dune bible - and we get a glimpse of what could have been.
194. Inside Llewyn Davis
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Garrett Hedlund, John Goodman, Jeanine Serralles
Plot: A trip through New York's folk music scene in the 1960s as a singer-songwriter does his best to make it through these times.
195. Call Me by Your Name
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Actors: Amira Casar, Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois
Plot: In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio Perlman lives a life of sophistication and comfort in Northern Italy. While an old soul in a young man's body, Elio is still innocent, especially when it comes to matters of love. A visiting college graduate student working with his father forms an immediate bond and it will awaken something in him.
196. Boy and the Beast, The ( Bakemono no ko )
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Actors: Shôta Sometani, Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Suzu Hirose, Sumire Morohoshi, Mamoru Miyano
197. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly, Benedict Cumberbatch
Plot: Bilbo Baggins, with Thorin and company, have successfully navigated the Misty Mountains. Now they face the new danger of the Mirkwood Forest - and Gandalf has left them to themselves. If they can make it to the human settlement of Lake-town, Biblo will have to live up to his "burglar" contract and use the secret door of Lonely Mountain and confront the dragon Smaug.
198. Mud
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jeff Nichols
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Michael Shannon, Matthew McConaughey, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon
Plot: A fugitive looking to reunite with the love of his life happens across two
teenage boys and the three form a pact to help him evade his pursuers and
complete his quest.
199. John Wick: Chapter Two
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chad Stahelski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Common, Ruby Rose, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne
Plot: John Wick wants nothing more than to leave his former life behind but an associate, one he is tied to by blood oath, calls on his help when he puts a plan in motion to take over an international assassins' guild. The call leads him to Rome, where he will square off against some of the world's deadliest assassins and hitmen.
200. The Theory of Everything
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Marsh
Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Harry Lloyd, Maxine Peake
Plot: The life of one of the world's most brilliant physicists, Stephen Hawking, with emphasis on the relationship he shares with his wife, Jane.
