Posted on June 25, 2020 at 8:00 am
This week’s new comedy release on Netflix: “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” faces a real challenge: it is near-impossible to be wilder, more improbable, or downright crazier than the real thing. Eurovision is like what we call soccer and the rest of the world calls football, Eurovision is a competition that Americans …
Posted on June 23, 2020 at 9:07 am
It is fun to look for early appearances of some of today’s biggest stars, including four Avengers. Here are some great films with the added pleasure of seeing favorite performers before they were famous. American Graffiti; This classic film about one night in the lives of a group of California teenagers features future stars Richard …
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Posted on June 18, 2020 at 3:47 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Not rated |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and non-explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drug references, alcoholism |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Criminal activity |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 12, 2020 |
Nichole Beharie is incandescent as a former beauty queen determined to create a different outcome for her daughter in “Miss Juneteenth,” inspired by the Texas holiday commemorating the date more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation when word came through that slavery was no longer legal. The Miss Juneteenth pageant is central to the …
Posted on June 18, 2020 at 8:00 am
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | TV-14 |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Family issues |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 19, 2020 |
Bryce Dallas Howard’s loving tribute to the men in our families is personal. It features her father, actor/director Ron Howard, his father, the late actor Rance Howard, who tells a beautiful and very meaningful story about then-Ronny Howard’s first day of filming on “The Andy Griffith Show,” and her brother, a soon-to-be father as the …
Posted on June 17, 2020 at 5:00 am
In honor of Father’s Day, my eBook, 50 Must-See Movies: Fathers is FREE today through Father’s Day, this weekend, June 17-21, 2020. What do “Wall Street” and the “Star Wars” saga and, seemingly, about half the movies ever made have in common? They are about fathers. In “Wall Street,” Charlie Sheen plays the ambitious Bud, who …
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