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Posted on December 20, 2006 at 11:43 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some violence, sexuality and language. |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and explicit situations including infidelity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Peril and violence, characters killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000MXPE7O |
You can see what drew director Robert DeNiro and co-producer Francis Ford Coppola to this film about the beginnings of the CIA. It resonates with many of the same themes as their great triumph Godfather II. In both stories, men make brutal choices, chosing expedience over process, secrecy over fairness, while anxious and bitter wives …
Continue reading “The Good Shepherd”
Posted on December 18, 2006 at 11:53 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for boxing violence and some language. |
| Profanity: |
Some mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters drink and smoke, character abuses alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense fight scenes, characters injured, references to sad death |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000N4SHPS |
“You throw a big shadow,” someone tells Sylvester Stallone in his sixth appearance as heavyweight Rocky Balboa, the character he created for the Oscar-winning Rocky). And those five previous films throw a big shadow, indeed, making this slight coda seem quite small. That’s not always a bad thing, given the elephantiasis and overkill of the …
Continue reading “Rocky Balboa”
Posted on December 13, 2006 at 11:56 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG brief mild language |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kiss, very mild references to propriety and appearances |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Mild reference to abusing alcohol, social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sad death, emotional confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: |
Class and gender equality is a theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000N4SHOE |
As delicate as the title character’s watercolors, this gentle story about the author and illustrator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit very winning. Renee Zellwegger plays the quiet daughter of conventional parents who don’t quite know how to respond to a young woman who calls the animals in her paintings her friends. These friends help …
Continue reading “Miss Potter”
Posted on December 12, 2006 at 12:07 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for fantasy violence, intense battle sequences and some frightening images. |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Fanstasy-style peril and violence, bows and arrows, spears, swords, fire, torture, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong minority and female characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000NA28I4 |
The fact that the CGI dragon gives the best performance in this film is not going to impede the enjoyment of its intended audience, which is 9-12 year olds. It may, however, make it a bit of a long haul for accompanying family members. This story has all the strengths and weaknesses of its origin …
Continue reading “Eragon”
Posted on December 11, 2006 at 12:20 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some language. |
| Profanity: |
Some mild language, f-word visible in graffiti |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sad and disturbing situations, character hit by car |
| Diversity Issues: |
An unstated theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
May 27, 2013 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000N6U0E2 |
This week’s release of “After Earth,” starring Will Smith and his son Jaden, is a good time to take another look at their first co-starring film, based on a real-life father and son: If a man goes from homeless single dad to multi-millionaire stockbroker, you know there has to be a movie. This one has …
Continue reading “The Pursuit of Happyness”
