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Posted on October 18, 2006 at 12:25 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for violence and disturbing images. |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-explicit references to adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Character abuses alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Multiple deaths including suicide, hanging and drowning. Many startling and horrific moments, one involving gunshot. Characters sustain significant bodily harm |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000LC55F2 |
As if we should believe him, Hugh Jackman’s character proclaims in “The Prestige” that magicians have a “circle of trust.” “The Prestige” takes that circle of trust and twists it into a Russian roulette, with Jackman betting on black and Bale on red, and both magicians playing the odds despite risk or consequence. The film …
Continue reading “The Prestige”
Posted on October 18, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Clint Eastwood’s first of two films about the WWII battle at Iwo Jima is sincere, competent, and respectful. He powerfully conveys the madness and brutality of battle and the conflicting feelings of thosw who fight — dedication, loyalty, patriotism, fear, courage, compassion, callousness, sacrifice, self-preservation. If these issues are not as well-presented as in other …
Continue reading “Flags of Our Fathers”
Posted on October 15, 2006 at 12:31 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, partial nudity and innuendo. |
| Profanity: |
Some crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-sexual nudity, brief explicit, but not graphic sexual situations, references to impotence, adultery, homosexuality |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, snuff |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Peril, offscreen violence, offscreen deaths, including a child |
| Diversity Issues: |
Class issues a theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000M06KJ8 |
With this third film, we can begin to see the themes emerging in the work of writer/director Sofia Coppola. Again, she has given us the story of a sensitive, vulnerable young woman trying to find a place and some meaning in an incomprehensible environment. In her last film, Lost in Translation, Scarlett Johansson was a …
Continue reading “Marie Antoinette”
Posted on October 15, 2006 at 12:29 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some mild language. |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Peril, characters injured, horse attacked by mountain lion, graphic bruise, question of humane killing, tense emotional confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000LV63MW |
“No one’s riding that loco thing!” Well, of course as soon as we hear that line we know someone’s going to have to ride it. And in this very fine family film, the rider will be Katy (Alison Lohman), just home from boarding school to her family’s ranch “on the top of the world in …
Continue reading “Flicka”
Posted on October 13, 2006 at 12:35 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, disturbing images/terror/violence, and some sensuality. |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Scene in a locker room with girls in underwear, young man in shower from waist up |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Many scary images and startling flashes. Some instances of violence such as pouring hot grease on a character’s head and snapping a character’s neck. Multiple deaths, including drowning and falling from the top of a building |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong female characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000LRZHQY |
There are two types of people who awake with an uneasy feeling on Friday the 13th: the superstitious, and those who just can’t stomach the release of another horror sequel, remake, or (in this case), sequel to a remake. But for fans of The Grudge, the day will be a lucky one. “The Grudge 2,” …
Continue reading “The Grudge 2”
