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Posted on December 7, 2020 at 12:50 pm
By all means, watch the classics! One of the sweetest family traditions is sharing favorites like “It’s a Wonderful Life,” “White Christmas,” “A Christmas Story,” “Elf,” “Home Alone,” and my favorite, “A Christmas Carol” (I watch the MCM, Alistair Sim, and Mr. Magoo versions every year, usually the Muppets version, too.) And then there are …
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Posted on December 6, 2020 at 10:45 am
Netflix’s entertaining “The Movies that Made Us” series has a new holiday edition called, you guessed it, “The Holiday Movies that Made Us,” with behind-the-scenes episodes about two beloved classics, Elf and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Both movies had the most improbable, even daunting production histories, with inexperienced filmmakers and skeptical studios. Indeed, the stories …
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Posted on December 3, 2020 at 5:26 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some crude material and strong language |
| Profanity: |
Some crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some sexual humor, character is a stripper |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril and violence, references to mob killings |
| Diversity Issues: |
Insensitive portrayal of disability and gender non-conformity |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
December 4, 2020 |
Fifty years ago a movie named “Lovers and Other Strangers” was released. Now best remembered, if at all, for the Carpenters song “For all We Know,” it was a collection of funny, poignant, romantic, hopeless, and hopeful love stories centered around the wedding of a young couple. While it is dated (one storyline is about …
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Posted on December 3, 2020 at 12:24 pm
I’ve been a fan of Rotten Tomatoes since it started in 1998 and began adding my reviews to it shortly after. I check it several times every day. So it is one of the greatest honors of my life that I have been designated a “top critic!” That means my reviews will be highlighted on …
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Posted on December 2, 2020 at 12:00 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some language |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol abuse and alcoholism |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
None |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
December 4, 2020 |
“Mank” is a big, breathtakingly ambitious, multii-layered story of Herman Mankiewicz, the man who wrote the original screenplay for what many people consider the greatest film ever made, “Citizen Kane.” This was a passion project for one of the most passionate and meticulous, film-loving directors in Hollywood, David Fincher, partly because the original script for …
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