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Posted on September 18, 2006 at 3:11 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for war action violence and some sexual content. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situation, prostitutes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and graphic battle violence, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000LAZE8C |
Has this script been in a drawer somewhere since 1942? It sure seems like it. It’s “inspired” by the absorbing true story of Americans who enlisted with the French armed forces in World War I, flying aircraft that were more like orange crates than planes, in a style of combat that was being invented moment …
Continue reading “Flyboys”
Posted on September 18, 2006 at 3:00 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some rude humor, mild action and brief language. |
| Profanity: |
Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some crude humor and potty jokes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril and violence, tranquilizer gun, hunters are the bad guys, no one badly hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
A metaphorical theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000L22SG6 |
I love CGI. I love the textures, the way every single hair and feather, every leaf and raindrop, every shiny, fuzzy, smooth, rough, soft, hard surface is perfectly perfect. But I realized, as I watched this movie, that one of the things I’ve missed in CGI is the elasticity and bounce, the freedom of hand-drawn …
Continue reading “Open Season”
Posted on September 18, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Huey Long was man of gigantic proportions, an epic, almost operatic figure who rose to power as the greatest of populists, succumbed to corruption, and was murdered at age 42. His story inspired a Pulitzer Prize-winning book and an Oscar-winning film. That has now been remade with Sean Penn as Willie Stark, the man who …
Continue reading “All the King’s Men”
Posted on September 13, 2006 at 3:14 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some startling scenes of violence, mature thematic material and language. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language including racial epithets |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some sexual references, teenaged parents |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drug references |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Violence and peril, sports violence, characters injured and killed, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000KHYN9C |
The biggest shock in this film comes at the very end. It is not a spoiler to say that there’s the usual “here’s what happened to the characters” round-up. The shocker is the reminder that the murderers and drug dealers who left the detention facility and continued to play football did so not in the …
Continue reading “Gridiron Gang”
Posted on September 12, 2006 at 3:18 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for sexuality, nudity and language. |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references and situations, nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, sometimes to excess |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Emotional confrontations, punch, slapping |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000JLTRK4 |
A man tells his pregnant girlfriend he will marry her when she can name three couples who have been happy together for more than five years. She offers her parents and “that cute couple from the pond.” He reminds her that ducks don’t count. Fans of Zach Braff may be disconcerted to see him as …
Continue reading “The Last Kiss”
