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Posted on March 15, 2007 at 4:29 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for pervasive language and some sexual content. |
| Profanity: |
A lot of very strong language, including the n-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Constant sexual references, implied nudity, skimpy clothes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Punching kicking, shooting |
| Diversity Issues: |
Racial humor, use of n-word (though acknowledged inappropriate for children) |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000R5OFNG |
Chris Rock has often said he admires the work of Woody Allen, and in Rock’s latest film, “I Think I Love My Wife,” the comedian tries to channel a very “Allen” vibe. Like Allen, he writes, directs, and stars. And the story is a classic Allen-esque set-up, as a married man wonders whether he would …
Continue reading “I Think I Love My Wife”
Posted on March 13, 2007 at 10:57 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some violent content, disturbing images, thematic material and brief language. |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual situation, reference to adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Smoking, wine, pharmaceuticals |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense peril, some graphic injuries, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters have a close friendship |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000QGDY0G |
With little style and no substance, this low-wattage forgettable thriller plays like a rejected episode of “The Twilight Zone.” Linda (Sandra Bullock) wakes up every day in a different reality (and a different sleeping outfit — she has quite the collection of nighties and pajamas). One day, she opens the door to a cop who …
Continue reading “Premonition”
Posted on March 1, 2007 at 11:09 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for graphic battle sequences throughout, some sexuality and nudity. |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, including orgy and decadence, sexual predator, same sex kissing, homophobic references, nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, possible drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme, graphic, and intense peril and violence, many characters injured and killed, sexual predator |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie, issue of treatment of women, some homophobic references and implications |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000Q6GX5Y |
“Everyone will kneel to you — if you will kneel to me.” That is the offer made by a gold-dusted, multi-pierced Xerxes of Persia to King Lionidas (Gerard Butler) of Sparta in this visually sumptuous version of the battle of Thermopylae. If Lionidas is tempted it is not by the prospect of ruling over thousands …
Continue reading “300”
Posted on February 28, 2007 at 11:34 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some strong killings, language, drug material and brief sexual images. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Pornography, reference to child molestation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, character abuses alcohol, marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and graphic murders by a serial killer |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B001HUHBAE |
We still don’t know for sure who was — or is — the California serial killer known as the Zodiac, the name he used in a series of letters he sent to San Francisco newspapers in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. This movie is not about some big payoff. There are no “eureka” WHO …
Continue reading “Zodiac”
Posted on February 27, 2007 at 11:55 am
D
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and some violence. |
| Profanity: |
Strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual humor, including homophobic references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, references to drug abuse |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril and violence, fighting |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, some misogynistic and homophobic humor |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000QFCD7W |
It was almost 40 years ago that Easy Rider made a motorcycle road trip the ultimate baby boomer emblem of freedom and adventure. Now John Travolta, William H. Macy, Martin Lawrence and Tim Allen play the uneasiest of riders in this uninspired and uninspiring formula comedy about four middle-aged friends who take their motorcycles on …
Continue reading “Wild Hogs”
