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Posted on August 19, 2006 at 4:08 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for language and rude humor. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language for a PG, including the s-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
References to kissing, wanting to jump on someone |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Some social drinking, characters smoke |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Mild peril, references to sad offscreen death and divorce |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000JFY05W |
The problem with a movie about rich people learning about real life that is written by rich people who have no idea about real life is that you end up with something like this — a movie about two rich girls, heirs to a cosmetics fortune, who lose everything, discover what really matters, and end …
Continue reading “Material Girls”
Posted on August 18, 2006 at 4:13 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language, a scene of sexuality and drug use, and intense sequences of terror and violence. |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity, sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme, intense, and graphic peril and violence, many injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000JBXHQY |
If there’s ever an Oscar for truth in titling, it will go to “Snakes on a Plane.” As zillions of internet fans have noted for months, that says it all. This is the snakiest plane movie and the planeiest snake movie ever made. The credits list four screenwriters, and I imagine they divided it up …
Continue reading “Snakes on a Plane”
Posted on August 16, 2006 at 4:21 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and violence. |
| Profanity: |
Mild language and insults |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-explicit sexual situation and some references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Off-screen violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000K7VHQ4 |
This feels like a fairy tale, so I will begin: “Once upon a time…” …there was a princess who loved a commoner but was engaged to a cruel prince. The commoner and the princess played together as children, but when they were discovered, he had to disappear. Many years later, he returns, transformed. Even his …
Continue reading “The Illusionist”
Posted on August 15, 2006 at 12:07 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for sports action and some mild language. |
| Profanity: |
Mild language and insults |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kissing, brief non-explicit bathroom humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, scenes in bar |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sports violence, tense confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000J3OTT6 |
In this movie, a father tells his son that one great touchdown by Steve Van Buren of the Philadelphia Eagles got him through 30 years of factory work. We often identify so completely with the teams and athletes we love that it feels like our hearts are in that ball as it crosses the goal …
Continue reading “Invincible”
Posted on August 15, 2006 at 11:56 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for pervasive crude and sexual content, language, nudity and substance abuse. |
| Profanity: |
Extremely strong and vulgar language with repeated references to masturbation, oral sex and prostitution |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity and sexual situations, repeated crude sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
The setting is a beerfest, constant drinking and jokes about drinking too much |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic violence including several deaths; two implied by gunshot, one drowning and one suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters with a great deal of steretyping of minorities, non-Americans, and women |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000JJ4DNW |
The boys of Broken Lizard have no shame. That’s what their fans like about them. There’s something quant, cute and even endearing (stick with me here) about their more innocent jokes, the ones where the laughs aren’t cheap but are grounded in character and a genuine affinity for the good times. This latest film has …
Continue reading “Beerfest”
