Posted on September 1, 2025 at 7:23 am
Back to work, back to school, back to sweaters, raking leaves, Halloween, and Thanksgiving! And it’s time to go back to one of the best times of the year for movies. Here’s what I’m looking forward to this fall, including two highly anticipated sequels arriving for Thanksgiving. (As usual, release dates may change.) SEPTEMBER Downton …
Posted on August 28, 2025 at 12:08 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language, sexual content, and graphic nudity |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Full frontal male nudity, sexual reference and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Comic scuffles |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 29, 2025 |
Writer-director-star Michael Angelo Covino and his co-screenwriter and co-star Kyle Marvin have now made a second movie about a man who has sex with his friend’s romantic partner. In their last film, “The Climb,” a character confesses he has slept with his friend’s fiancée. In “Splitsville,” Carey (Covino) confesses he has slept with his friend’s …
Posted on August 25, 2025 at 5:57 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language throughout, sexual content, and drug content |
| Profanity: | Constant very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Explicit sexual references, some crude, non-explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, drugs, drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Comic, cartoon-style peril, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 28, 2025 |
There’s a reason romantic fairy tales end with the wedding, assuring us that the couple lived happily ever after but not taking on the difficult task of showing us what that looks like. Very few movies attempt to show what happens after love is declared and the wedding cake has been served to the guests, …
Posted on August 21, 2025 at 6:43 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, some strong violence, and language |
| Profanity: | Strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Nudity and very explicit sexual situations including a threesome and bondage |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Peril and violence, many characters injured and killed, very graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 22, 2025 |
I liked “Drive Away Dolls,” Ethan Coen’s previous film starring Margaret Qualley as a free-spirited queer woman who has a series of crazy adventures involving gangsters and a mysterious suitcase many people are interested in. “Honey Don’t!” is not a sequel, more an offshoot that aims for the same sort of vibe, this time with …
Posted on August 21, 2025 at 5:26 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | 4th - 6th Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Not rated |
| Profanity: | Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some gross-out body humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Characters take magic pills |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended peril and violence, sad deaths of parents and brother, images of a destroyed village with charred remains, scary monsters |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 15, 2025 |
I’m not going to spend much time on the storyline of “Ne Zha !!” because it is extremely convoluted and because it is not really that important. “Ne Zha II” is a sequel, continuing the saga based on the Investiture of the Gods book written during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), itself based on folklore, myth, …
