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Posted on November 8, 2006 at 12:02 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong violence, language and drug use. |
| Profanity: |
Constant extremely strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit and crude sexual references, sexual situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, drunk driving, drug use, drug dealing, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme, graphic, and intense peril and violence, many characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000KX0IM2 |
If David Ayer the director paid David Ayer the screenwriter for this script, he should ask himself for some of his money back. The screenplay is awfully close to Ayer’s own Training Day, the film that won Denzel Washington his Oscar. Both movies take place mostly in a car, with one character a sociopath and …
Continue reading “Harsh Times”
Posted on November 8, 2006 at 11:59 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for language and some sexual content. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse cultures |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000LXHK2C |
Plonk is a Britishism for cheap, low-quality wine — not undrinkable, by any means, just nothing special. As much could be said for this film, lightly based on the helium-weight plonk of a best-seller by Peter Mayle. Some movies begin as a dream, some as a story, some as a business deal. And occasionally, there …
Continue reading “A Good Year”
Posted on November 8, 2006 at 11:56 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use. |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity, sexual references (some crude) and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Violence, including gun, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000MCH5P4 |
In the Bible, the story of Babel is a cautionary tale of hubris. The whole world had a common language until God, seeing that the people were building a huge tower together, “confused their speech.” They could no longer understand each other, and so they scattered all over the world, each with the people who …
Continue reading “Babel”
Posted on November 7, 2006 at 12:05 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity. |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations, partial nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking (chracter chain-smokes) |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril and violence, characters injured, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B001GF8WPI |
Who among us has not leaned into the bathroom mirror as we brushed our teeth, thinking about what a narrator might be saying about us if we were in a story? “Our hero prepared for battle as though he was going on a date. He always said he found unbrushed teeth a distraction in a …
Continue reading “Stranger Than Fiction”
Posted on November 4, 2006 at 2:07 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sexual references and brief language. |
| Profanity: |
Some crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some crude humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters drink |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000M341Q4 |
This is the time of year when ads, CDs, and DVDs marked “for your consideration” are sent out to members of the movie industry and to critics, in the hopes that those behind and in front of the camera will be considered favorably for some of the dozens of awards that are issued each year.
