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Posted on April 6, 2007 at 12:34 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for sexual content, nudity, some disturbing violent images and language. |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references and situations, online sex, references to abuse |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, references to getting drunk as a way to celebrate |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and graphic peril and violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000RO9Q7W |
Was Ashley Judd at the hairdresser the day this script came in? She’s usually the star of movies like this — the low-level potboiler with the plucky girl in jeopardy, and Morgan Freeman around somewhere to give some sage advice. But in the Ashley Judd role this time we have Oscar-winner Halle Berry, whose post-Oscar …
Continue reading “Perfect Stranger”
Posted on April 5, 2007 at 12:38 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence, disturbing images and some sexuality. |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol, implied date rape drug |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Explicit and graphic peril and violence, including rape, decomposing dead body, child in peril, graphic suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong female and minority characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000U7169M |
Ancient scrolls foretell the birth of an evil child begat of an unholy union between an episode of “The X-Files” and Nicolas Cage’s The Wicker Man, from the branch of the family that produced Children of the Corn. Okay, so scrolls didn’t really warn us about “The Reaping.” But someone should have. The action begins …
Continue reading “The Reaping”
Posted on April 4, 2007 at 12:43 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong graphic bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use. |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language, including racial epithets |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity and explicit sexual references and situations, same-sex kiss |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme, intense, graphic, and grisly violence, guns, knives, fighting, torture, many characters injured and killed, attempted rape |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B003VMFWYI |
NOTE: This movie has extremely graphic, grisly, violent, and disgusting images, situations, and characters. It is not appropriate for anyone under 18 or for many adults. The positive rating is only for its intended audience, fans of this genre. Famously violent but critically acclaimed film-makers Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are fans of “grindhouse” movies. …
Continue reading “Grindhouse”
Posted on April 3, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Ths story about a mega-movie star dog who gets lost and finds a home with the son of a fire chief is an uncomfortable blending of three different stories that neglects the one thing we want to see — the relationship between the boy and the dog. Instead, we get pieces of three other movies, …
Continue reading “Firehouse Dog”
Posted on April 1, 2007 at 12:50 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some innuendos and brief language. |
| Profanity: |
Some crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, scene in bar, drinking in response to stress |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril and violence, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters but some stereotyping and disabilities played for humor |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000RBA6C4 |
Is it over yet? Please? Ice Cube’s Are We There Yet? was tough enough to sit through, though unaccountably successful. Thus, we have this doubly unnecessary sequel. It is so creatively bankrupt that it has to teeter not just on the original, which was bad enough, but it has the temerity to call itself in …
Continue reading “Are We Done Yet?”
