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The Lookout

Posted on March 28, 2007 at 2:13 pm

B+
Lowest Recommended Age: High School
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language, some violence and sexual content.
Profanity: Very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Explicit sexual references and situation, nudity
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking, smoking, drug use
Violence/ Scariness: Tense and violent situations, some graphic, many characters injured and killed
Diversity Issues: A theme of the movie
Date Released to Theaters: 2007
Date Released to DVD: 2007
Amazon.com ASIN: B000QFCD8Q

In this tense and twisty thriller, our narrator and central figure is Chris (the stunning Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a one-time high school hockey star and dreamboat who was brain-damaged in a car crash on prom night. Now, he works as the night janitor in a bank and goes to life skills classes to practice “sequencing” and …

Blades of Glory

Posted on March 28, 2007 at 2:08 pm

B
Lowest Recommended Age: High School
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language, a comic violent image and some drug references.
Profanity: Some strong and very crude language
Nudity/ Sex: Very crude humor for a PG-13, sexual references and non-explicit situations
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking, drug references
Violence/ Scariness: Comic peril and violence, including comic decapitation
Diversity Issues: Diverse characters
Date Released to Theaters: 2007
Date Released to DVD: 2007
Amazon.com ASIN: B000R7I3XM

Will Ferrell seems to be working his way through every sport ever covered on ESPN. With figure skating, he has found a target-rich environment for comedy. The collision of sport and showbiz is nowhere more intense than in an Olympic event that features what one of the characters in this movie would call “mind-bottling” feats …

The Hoax

Posted on March 22, 2007 at 2:25 pm

B
Lowest Recommended Age: High School
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language.
Profanity: Very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual references and non-explicit situations, references to adultery, prostitution
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking, smoking
Violence/ Scariness: Tense and emotional scenes, fighting
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: 2007

What is it about liars that makes them the focus of so many movies? In the past few months alone we’ve had Breech (from the same writer/director who gave us another real-life liar story, Shattered Glass) and Colour Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story. And now we have “The Hoax,” based on one of the most …

Meet the Robinsons

Posted on March 22, 2007 at 2:19 pm

B+
Lowest Recommended Age: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
MPAA Rating: Rated G
Profanity: None
Nudity/ Sex: None
Alcohol/ Drugs: None
Violence/ Scariness: Cartoon-style peril, including dinosaur, no one hurt
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: 2007
Date Released to DVD: 2007
Amazon.com ASIN: B000ROAK2W

At times, all of us feel like strangers in the world. In Disney’s bight, colorful, CGI animated film (available in 3D in some locations), Lewis (voice of Daniel Hansen) is left on the steps of an orphanage as a baby and rejected by over 100 prospective parents. He constantly invents machines that will help solve …

The Last Mimzy

Posted on March 21, 2007 at 2:41 pm

B
Lowest Recommended Age: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
MPAA Rating: Rated PG for some thematic elements, mild peril and language.
Profanity: None
Nudity/ Sex: Very mild sexual reference, couple lives together without being married
Alcohol/ Drugs: None
Violence/ Scariness: Peril and confrontations, some tense scenes and possible peril
Diversity Issues: Diverse characters
Date Released to Theaters: 2007
Date Released to DVD: 2007
Amazon.com ASIN: B000Q66FB6

Two children find toys that make them more intelligent and powerful and send them on an adventure in this fine story for 4th-8th graders and their families. After he plays with the toys, Noah (Chris O’Neil) doesn’t need his glasses any more. He can hit a golf ball like Tiger Woods. Instead of struggling in …