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Posted on October 11, 2006 at 12:41 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for language including some crude sexual references, drug related material, and brief violence. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some crude sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Character injected with drugs, references to drug abuse, drinking, smoking, references to health impact of smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Scenes of peril, character injured |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000LC5B7O |
So, what if Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert decided to run for President? First of all, didn’t we already see that movie, when it was called Head of State and starred Chris Rock? (Okay, he didn’t play a comedian, but he is a comedian and behaved like one.) The idea of a campaign by an …
Continue reading “Man of the Year”
Posted on October 11, 2006 at 12:38 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for sequences of action violence and some peril. |
| Profanity: |
Some crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
A lot of action violence including guns, characters killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000JBWWPQ |
I never thought I’d miss Cody Banks. But the dull and lifeless Alex Rider brought back surprisingly fond thoughts of the better-than mediocre Agent Cody Banks and the terrific first two Spy Kids. Even the lousy third one was better than this dreary, too-violent, talent-wasting mess, based on the successful series of James Bond-for-kids books. …
Continue reading “Stormbreaker”
Posted on October 7, 2006 at 12:45 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language. |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
References to sad deaths in car crash, hunting, animal carcasses |
| Diversity Issues: |
Class issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B004SIP9B0 |
Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) is feeling more triumphant than nervous as he goes to Buckingham Palace for the queen’s formal invitation to serve. He and his wife all but snicker as they consider the anachronism of royalty in the modern age. And then he goes in to meet her (Helen Mirren) and finds that she …
Continue reading “The Queen”
Posted on October 4, 2006 at 12:50 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content and drug material. |
| Profanity: |
Extremely strong and crude language, including sexual references and racial, ethnic, and homophobic slurs |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references, some very crude, and non-graphic situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, street and pharmaceutical drugs, drug dealing |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme, intense, graphic, and grisly violence, guns, knives, fighting, torture, many characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Many racial and ethnic slurs, tribalism a theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000M341QE |
Brilliantly acted, enthrallingly told, this vast, operatic saga centers on two men, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) and William Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio), both Boston Southies. Both are pretending to be the opposite of what they really are. Both are caught between the fear of having their true selves revealed and the fear of hiding themselves so …
Continue reading “The Departed”
Posted on September 27, 2006 at 12:54 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for language, crude and sexual content, and some violence. |
| Profanity: |
Mild language and insults |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Crude rape jokes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Scenes in bar |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril and violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000MEYKC8 |
This movie asks the age-old question: Do nice guys finish last? Kind of the evil twin of last year’s Will Smith romantic comedy Hitch, this, too, is about a life coach who helps awkward, insecure men who want to attain beautiful women. But where Hitch taught them to listen, to be considerate, and to lean …
Continue reading “School for Scoundrels”
