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Posted on March 5, 2020 at 10:33 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for thematic material |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kisses |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Terminal illness |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 13, 2020 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
May 4, 2020 |
If a movie is called “I Still Believe,” you can be pretty sure it is aimed at those who already believe. Based on the real-life love story of Christian musician Jeremy Camp, it is set in a world of believers and very much in the tradition of Christian testimony, where tragedy is overcome or at …
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Posted on March 4, 2020 at 5:19 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for action/peril and some mild thematic elements |
| Profanity: |
Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Fantasy/cartoon-style peril and violence, theme of loss |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 6, 2020 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
May 18, 2020 |
Arthur C. Clarke, the sci-fi author who wrote 2001, famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” At the beginning of Pixar’s new animated fantasy, “Onward” we see what happens when a world of wizards, elves, incantations, and — in both senses of the word — charms changes when technology takes over. It …
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Posted on March 1, 2020 at 11:59 am
A new version of Noel Coward’s ghost comedy “Blithe Spirit” is coming! This one stars Dan Stevens, Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, and Dame Judi Dench. I am fond of the original film version with Rex Harrison and an unforgettable Margaret Rutherford as the dotty ghost whisperer Madame Arcati.
Posted on February 24, 2020 at 4:00 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for brief partial nudity |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief rear nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Wine |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
None |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 21, 2020 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
May 18, 2020 |
Jane Austen described the eponymous central figure of her 1815 novel as “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” The opening sentence of the book almost challenges us to like her: “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings …
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Posted on February 21, 2020 at 5:30 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some violence, peril, thematic elements and mild language |
| Profanity: |
Some mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Referene to hybrid puppies |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Peril and violence, human and animal characters injured and killed, animal abuse, guns |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 22, 2020 |
My review of “Call of the Wild” is on rogerebert.com. An excerpt: Harrison Ford made me believe he was talking to Greedo and Jabba the Hutt in the early “Star Wars” films and those characters were as low-tech as Gumby and Pokey compared to the technology used to create Ford’s canine co-star in “The Call …
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