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Posted on February 9, 2020 at 8:52 am
I live near some of the most iconic locations in the movies (though of course many movie versions of the White House and monuments are re-created in Hollywood). Tourists love to visit the Exorcist steps. And they there’s this scene at the Lincoln Memorial in “Forrest Gump.” Harry Medved has a great book about movie …
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Posted on February 6, 2020 at 5:20 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong violence and language throughout, and some sexual and drug material |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nude images in artwork, some crude humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Brief drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended and very graphic peril and violence, characters injured and killed, disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 7, 2020 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
May 11, 2020 |
At last, the sisters are doing it for themselves, on screen and off. “Birds of Prey (and The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” directed by Cathy Yan and written by Christina Hodson (“Bumblebee”), it has the ladies of the DC universe band together when the guys (Batman and Joker) are (literally) out of the …
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Posted on February 4, 2020 at 3:49 pm
My choice for the best Animated Short Oscar is Hair Love. There’s a great story about how this film got made in today’s Washington Post. The story behind the scenes deserves an award and maybe a movie of its own. An excerpt: In 2017, Matthew A. Cherry created a Kickstarter campaign in the hopes of …
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Posted on January 30, 2020 at 5:39 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence, sexual content, language throughout, and some drug use |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations, prostitution |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended very graphic and intense peril and violence, characters injured and killed, terrorism, suicide bomber, guns, knives, chases, explosions, disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
January 31, 2020 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
April 27, 2020 |
What is this weird fascination with stories of men taking lost, pathetic, but lissome young women and turning them into spies and assassins? A century ago, we had Henry Higgins teaching a flower girl to speak like a duchess. Now, we have “La Femme Nikita” and its American remake “Point of No Return,” its Hong …
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Posted on January 29, 2020 at 11:11 am
Ready Steady Cut has a great list of podcasts about movies, including my pals at The Next Best Picture. I found some to add to my own list and their terrific descriptions made me want to subscribe to all of them.
