Posted on October 26, 2019 at 8:00 am
Halloween gives kids a thrilling opportunity to act out their dreams and pretend to be characters with great power. But it can also be scary and even overwhelming for the littlest trick-or-treaters. An introduction to the holiday with videos from trusted friends can help make them feel comfortable and excited about even the spookier aspects …
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Posted on October 24, 2019 at 5:46 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for mature thematic content, some disturbing images, violence, and language |
| Profanity: | Strong and offensive language including anti-Semitic insults |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Kisses |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Intense and disturbing peril and violence including a child injured in an explosion, wartime violence, bombs. guns, tragic deaths |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 25, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: | February 17, 2020 |
The first thing you need to know is that writer/director Taika Waititi does not play HItler in “JoJo Rabbit,” and it does not portray the real Adolf Hitler as a comic figure. Waititi plays a child’s imaginary version of Hitler. He has more in common with Chris O’Dowd’s imaginary friend character in his very funny …
Posted on October 24, 2019 at 5:35 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some violent content and thematic elements |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Flashback to Civil War scene with guns, animals and humans electrocuted, discussion of "humane" executions, sad death of wife and mother, tense confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: | Anti-immigrant prejudice |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 25, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: | March 30, 2020 |
There’a a saying usually attributed to Balzac: “Behind every fortune is a crime.” There is a fairy tale quality to stories of people who have exciting new ideas that change our lives and are rewarded with unimaginable fortunes, from the grad students who created Google to the garage tinkerers who founded Hewlett-Packard and the college …
Posted on October 23, 2019 at 5:28 pm
Many many thanks to Tony Panaccio and Bleeding Cool for this delightful interview about my fangirl side. Excerpts: Q: Let’s start at the beginning. What do you remember as your first experience with fandom? I think my gateway drug, around the time I was nine, was MAD Magazine. As soon as I saw my first …
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Posted on October 23, 2019 at 11:01 am
Retro Report makes sense of the present by revealing the past. Join journalists Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and varied stories, and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz adds his signature wit.
