Posted on February 6, 2021 at 8:00 am
Get ready for the Super Bowl with some of my favorite football movies: Burt Reynolds, who played college football, stars in The Longest Yard as former pro player who puts together a team in prison. (Ignore the Adam Sandler remake, please.) North Dallas Forty is a darkly comic look at the game with Nick Nolte …
Posted on February 4, 2021 at 5:50 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for drug content, language, some sexual material and violence |
| Profanity: | Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some sexual material |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Peril and some violence including an accidental homicide |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | February 5, 2021 |
If you could, if it was possible, would you smooth all of life’s rough spots? Would you remove all worry, all fear, all sadness, all pain? Would you want to live in a world of perpetual bliss? That is the question raised provocatively but very imperfectly in “Bliss,” with Owen Wilson as greg, a gray-spirited …
Posted on February 4, 2021 at 5:38 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language and sexual references |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Crude humor, sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol, drugs and drug dealing |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Reference to tragic death of a child, child abuse, mental illness |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | February 5, 2021 |
A short story by Kurt Vonnegut was turned into a television film for PBS starring Christopher Walken as a shy man who only came alive when he was assigned a part in a play. Susan Sarandon played a woman who fell in love with him and they ended up happily inhabiting roles that kept their …
Posted on February 4, 2021 at 5:14 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for pervasive language and sexual content |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Explicit sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Struggles, arguments |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | February 5, 2021 |
When I interviewed John David Washington about “BlackKklansman,” he told me his dream was a film of “The Taming of the Shrew.” His new film, “Malcolm and Marie” could be an audition for that project and based on the results, someone should cast him and his co-star Zendaya right this minute and start filming it …
Posted on February 4, 2021 at 8:40 am
The Golden GLobes get a lot of attention because they have a big, glittery award show, but their nominations are not always consistent with the choices of critics and industry groups. They are decided by a small group of international journalists living in Los Angeles. This year’s nominees reflect our pandemic viewing, with streaming services …
