Posted on December 3, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Amanda (Cameron Diaz) has a successful business cutting up new Hollywood releases into three-minute trailers that make the films look as enticing as possible. Writer-director Nancy Meyers essentially cuts up classic romantic comedies and reassembles them for modern consumption. The result is glossy fluff entertainment like What Women Want and Something’s Got to Give. They’re …
Posted on November 30, 2006 at 4:27 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated G |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some crude humor, mild boy-girl attraction |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Mild peril, theme of protecting the main character from slaughter, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: | 2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000NA6CPE |
E.B. White’s book, Charlotte’s Web, is a genuine classic for readers of any age, a beautifully written literary novel about loyalty and loss, friendship and the importance of a perfectly chosen word. The book began with a little girl named Fern rescuing a runt of a pig her father intended to kill. She names him …
Posted on November 30, 2006 at 4:24 pm
F+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for strong graphic violence and disturbing content, sexuality, nudity, drug use and language. |
| Profanity: | Extremely strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some nudity, implied prostitution |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Fairly heavy drinking, implied marijuana smoking, contains implication that alcoholic beverages have been “drugged†|
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extremely graphic and grisly violence including torture |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie is the way Americans are seen by those outside the US |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: | 2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000N3AW6G |
The growing trend in horror is to be as disgusting as possible — the story need not be involved, as long as it includes some form of stainless-steel torture and preferably five to six young backpackers/tourists/campers/other people away from home. While the formula might have proved innovative with some of the earlier films of the …
Posted on November 28, 2006 at 4:37 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for some violent content. |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | References to virgin birth |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Characters in peril |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: | 2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000MGBM1I |
Jean Kerr once wrote of school Christmas pageant with a moving depiction of the nativity that consisted of two young children crossing a bare stage. They stopped briefly. Joseph said, “Mary, ’tis a cold, cold night.” “‘Tis,” she replied. And they walked on. Anyone who wants to try to tell the story of the birth …
Posted on November 20, 2006 at 3:37 pm
F+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for some crude and suggestive humor, and for language. |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Crude cross-dressing humor, jokes about teenage dating, mild sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Brief meth lab joke, social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Comic violence and peril, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: | Homophobic jokes |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: | 2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000UX798I |
Another year, another cheesy, hypocritical movie about how the true meaning of Christmas gets lost in the madness of Christmas. Except that this movie is, in itself, Exhibit A in the Christmas Madness category. And, to boot, it has unforgiveably crude, ugly and homophobic “humor.” Doesn’t that sound like fun for the whole family! Steve …
