Can the Naughtiest Kids Put on the Best Christmas Pageant Ever?
Posted on December 25, 2019 at 10:00 am
Loretta Swit (“M*A*S*H”) stars in this classic about a teacher who puts the “worst” kids in the Christmas pageant.
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The Nativity Play from The Bells of St. Mary’s
Posted on December 25, 2019 at 7:48 am
One of the sweetest Nativity plays of all time, from Bing Crosby’s “Bells of St. Mary’s” with Ingrid Bergman. You can tell that the children improvised much of it themselves — and that Bing knows and is charmed by it. Merry Christmas!
Spies in Disguise
Posted on December 24, 2019 at 5:05 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for action, violence, and rude humor |
| Profanity: | Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Potty humor, brief gender humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Transformation potion |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Action/cartoon-style violence, consequences of violence an issue in the film |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters and issues of diversity but includes the "bad buy with disabilities" cliche |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 25, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: | March 9, 2020 |
Will Smith is one of the most charismatic performers in movie history, and his confident physical grace and handsome face are movie magic. But it just might be that his highest and best use is as the voice of an animated character, For “Spies in Disguise” he plays super-spy Lance Sterling, as cool and crisp …
Little Women
Posted on December 24, 2019 at 5:00 pm
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | 4th - 6th Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for thematic elements and brief smoking |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Kisses |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Social drinking, brief smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Very sad death, references to other deaths including death of a baby |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 25, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: | April 6, 2020 |
You need to know where I’m coming from on this one. There is no book more central to my life than Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. My mother, Josephine Baskin Minow, has been Jo since she first read Little Women when she was a child, And now our children call her Marmee. I loved it …
Interview: Anthony McCarten, Screenwriter of The Two Popes
Posted on December 20, 2019 at 7:22 am
My interview with screenwriter Anthony McCarten (“Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Theory of Everything”) about “The Two Popes” has been published by the Association of Women Film Journalists. An excerpt: Sometimes history is made by groups of people in labs or courtrooms or legislative bodies or battlefields. Sometimes history is made by two people talking to each …
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