Posted on September 5, 2020 at 8:00 am
Alfred Hitchcock fans loved to spot his cameos, which added a touch of whimsy to his thrillers. As time went on, he made sure they occurred early in the films to avoid distracting the audience. The biggest challenge he faced was in the movie “Lifeboat.” Unless he was going to play one of the characters …
Posted on September 4, 2020 at 12:05 pm
CMP has announced its inaugural Doc5 Film Festival will take place at the Middleburg Community Center (200 W. Washington St., Middleburg, Virginia 20117) from Tuesday, September 22 through Saturday, September 26, 2020. Doc5 is the traveling “little sister” to CMP’s flagship Doc10 Film Festival, which launched in Chicago in 2015 and has continued its reign …
Posted on September 3, 2020 at 1:08 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Implied non-sexual nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended battle sequences, fights, swords, explosions, falling |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 4, 2020 |
| Date Released to DVD: | November 9, 2020 |
Disney’s live-action remake of “Mulan” is closer to director Niki Caro’s touching, both mythic and intimate “Whale Rider” than it is to the animated musical with Eddie Murphy as a quippy little dragon and Donny Osmond as a Chinese warrior. Coming to us on DisneyPLus (for an extra $30) due to the pandemic, it gives …
Posted on September 2, 2020 at 10:04 am
Playwright Matt Crowley responded to critics of “The Boys in the Band” who said his award-winning play unfairly depicted gay men as miserable and self-loathing by saying that there were plenty of happy gay people; they just weren’t at this party. “The Boys in the Band” was ground-breaking in 1968 for its frank depiction of …
Posted on August 31, 2020 at 8:00 am
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for violence and intense action |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended, intense peril and violence, characters injured and killed, guns, chases, explosions, weapons of mass and total destruction, torture |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 4, 2020 |
Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” is like a three-dimensional chess game. The storyline is mind-bendingly intricate, with thought-provoking fantasy and juicy twists. But the characters are never more than one-dimensional, like the pawns, rooks, and bishops on the chess board, their sole defining characteristics are the way they look and move. The brilliantly-staged action sequences punctuate a …
