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Posted on September 1, 2006 at 2:49 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexuality, nudity and drug use. |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity and explicit sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, street and pharmaceutical drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme, intense, graphic, and grisly violence, guns, knives, fighting, torture, many characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000K7UBSO |
Crank — as in the highly potent and highly agitating street drug, as in cranked up, as in dizzying cuts and swoops with the camera to replicate a disorienting strung-out high followed by an even more disorienting and strung-out crash. Actually, it begins with the crash. Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) wakes up feeling like death, …
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Posted on August 31, 2006 at 3:00 pm
C
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sexual content and some language. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language, including the n-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situtations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, references to drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Car accident, character injured, punch in the nose |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000LRZHR8 |
This is one air ball of a movie, a talented cast and an appealing idea stranded by a clunky script. It shoots. And it shoots and shoots and shoots, but it never scores. Tech (Anthony Mackie) works in the mall, studies for his G.E.D., hustles money at the basketball court, and plays “street basketball” under …
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Posted on August 25, 2006 at 3:04 pm
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language, some sex and drug content. |
| Profanity: |
Extremely strong and crude language, including bad language used in front of a child |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references, pornography |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, references to drug abuse |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense and sad situations, suicide attempt (off-screen), sad death |
| Diversity Issues: |
A strength of the movie is its portrayal of a gay character |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000K7VHQE |
When the family in this movie learns that their van cannot be repaired in time for them to get to the Little Miss Sunshine competition, they decide to drive it as is. And that means that in order to get it to start, they all have to get out and push, then chase after it …
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Posted on August 24, 2006 at 3:07 pm
B
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence, sexuality, nudity and language. |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language including the n-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references and situations, prostitution, adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, scenes in speakeasy, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Graphic violence, characters shot, injured, killed, scenes in mortuary with many dead bodies |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong, independent minority and female characters in an era when that was rare |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000JJSL1W |
Percival, a mortician by day/speakeasy piano player by night, sleeps under an assortment of singing cuckoo clocks and serenades a lovely corpse dressed as a bride. The engraved rooster on a silver liquor flask talks to its owner, also named Rooster. This stylized and stylish love and bullets prohibition-era story from Outkast is more of …
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Posted on August 20, 2006 at 4:00 pm
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for mild bullying and some crude humor. |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Funny but gross-out worm-eating humor |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000J10FLY |
This is a delightfully snips and snails and puppy-dog tails-style movie, with kids who look and act refreshingly like real kids. It’s based on the book by Thomas Rockwell that has delighted and happily grossed out kids since 1973. A cute credit-sequence cartoon introduces us to Billy (Luke Benward), who has a sensitive stomach, and …
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