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Posted on October 10, 2019 at 5:16 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for macabre and suggestive humor, and some action |
| Profanity: |
Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic/action peril and violence, car accident, explosions, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 11, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 20, 2020 |
My full review of this film is at rogerebert.com. An excerpt: There are about half a dozen bright spots in the new animated feature “The Addams Family,” but in between them is the unbright and unoriginal storyline about how the real monsters are the ordinary people, not the weird people. Parents should know that this …
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Posted on October 10, 2019 at 3:32 pm
Zoe Krianik from the wonderful Hollywood Genes blog was kind enough to interview me. An excerpt: What is your earliest memory of watching a classic film? What did it do for you? Why do you remember it? My dad says the first movie I ever saw in a theater was the Disney film Westward Ho …
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Posted on October 9, 2019 at 4:08 pm
Variety notes the significant and unprecedented progress made by women directors this year. The #metoo and #timesup initiatives have made a difference, for the first time resulting in systemic changes. In January, Stacy L. Smith — the founder of USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which tracks representation in front of and behind the camera — published …
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Posted on October 3, 2019 at 12:42 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, language and brief sexual images |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief sexual images |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Prescription drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Graphic bloody violence, murders, stabbing, guns, assaults |
| Diversity Issues: |
Some insults |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 4, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 6, 2020 |
“Joker” tries hard to be dark, disturbing, and meaningful. It is dark, but it is sour, superficial and gross, the darkness not especially significant and therefore not especially meaningful. Its call-outs to past and current real-life events and other movies are not illuminating in any way; they just seem like training wheels borrowed to keep …
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Posted on October 3, 2019 at 12:34 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language and some sexual content |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some peril and threats of violence, gun |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 4, 2019 |
In 2007 a female astronaut furiously jealous because the male astronaut she was sleeping with was also sleeping with someone else, drove from Texas to Florida with the intention of attacking the other woman. “Lucy in the Sky” tells us it is inspired by a true story, and while it draws some of its details …
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