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Posted on May 20, 2021 at 5:00 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not rated |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
References in lyrics |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Wine |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Brief scene of accident |
| Diversity Issues: |
Acceptance of diversity a theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 21, 2021 |
As I watched “P!nk: All I Know So Far,” I thought tof what W.H. Auden wrote in a poem called “Tonight at Seven-Thirty:” “The funniest mortals and the kindest are those who are most aware of the baffle of being, don’t kid themselves our care is consolable but believe a laugh is less heartless than …
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Posted on May 20, 2021 at 12:00 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for language and thematic elements |
| Profanity: |
Some mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, scenes in pub, alcoholic portrayed as cute and funny |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sad death of a parent, off-screen serious injury of a horse |
| Diversity Issues: |
Class issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 21, 2021 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
July 5, 2021 |
“Dream Horse” is a fact-based underdog, or maybe under-horse story about an improbable equine champion. But the real thoroughbred in the movie is the endlessly talented Toni Collette, who plays Jan Vokes, a cashier at a big box store in Wales, who dreams of breeding a racehorse. This is a solidly constructed feel good movie, …
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Posted on May 9, 2021 at 10:17 am
On May 9, 1961, my father, Newton Minow, delivered a speech that continues to inspire the conversation about media and has even been an answer on Jeopardy! I interviewed him about the speech for Emmy Magazine. LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik interviewed him about media and the news. He appeared on his favorite news program, …
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Posted on May 9, 2021 at 7:00 am
The movies have given us warm, loving, mothers, evil, abusive mothers, even alien mothers. Some of my favorites are featured in my book, 50 Must-See Movies: Mothers, including these. Claudia Before they went on to co-star in the luminous romance, “The Enchanted Cottage,” Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young played a young married couple in this sweet …
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Posted on May 6, 2021 at 5:38 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for thematic content, scary images, peril and some language |
| Profanity: |
Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some peril, references to child abuse and neglect, critical illness of a parent |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 8, 2021 |
“The Water Man” is a rare film that exquisitely captures the liminal moment at the end of childhood when we are old enough to begin to understand some of the complications and unsolvable problems of life but still young enough to believe in magic. Lonnie Chavis (“Magic Camp,” “This is Us”) plays 11-year-old Gunner, who …
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