Posted on August 14, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Bartleby (Justin Long) has been turned down at every single college he applied to. His friends’ college plans have also turned out badly. No problem. Bartleby is a can-do Ferris Bueller type — without “Twist and Shout,” a red Ferrari, a wealthy family, or a clever script. He makes up a college, the South Harmon …
Posted on August 9, 2006 at 12:17 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, brief violence and innuendo. |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Kissing, some bragging about conquests |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Character is shot and killed, some additional peril and violence |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters have strong, loyal relationships |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: | 2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000J3OTSM |
A ballet dancer needs a partner for the biggest show of the year. She sees a boy working off his community service time at her school showing some of his dance moves off to a friend. Could he do? Will he do it? Will they learn a great deal from each other and about themselves …
Posted on August 7, 2006 at 1:16 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for intense and emotional content, some disturbing images and language. |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extreme, intense, and graphic peril and violence, terrorist attacks, suicide, many deaths |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: | 2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000JLTRKE |
September 11, 2001 was one of those days that cleave history in two, forever separating the Before and the After as irrecovably as it separated those who were lost from those who survived. As we watched it over and over on television, trying to make some sense of the senseless, people said the same thing, …
Posted on August 2, 2006 at 3:48 pm
C-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for some mild peril and rude humor. |
| Profanity: | Some crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some potty humor, pregnant character gives birth (offscreen) |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Characters get drunk on milk, character drinks beer |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Peril and some scary moments, character is mauled, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters, some stereotyping of female characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: | 2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000ION726 |
In this movie, the cows are boys. They have big pink udders and manly male voices. In fact, head cow Ben has the manliest, malest, deepest voice imaginable, that of quintessential cowpoke Sam Elliott. Our hero, Otis has the voice of Kevin James. But there are some girl cows, too, Daisy (Courtney Cox), who is …
Posted on August 2, 2006 at 3:06 pm
C| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language and some disquieting sexual content. |
| Profanity: | Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | References to abuse, pornography |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol, drug reference |
| Violence/ Scariness: | References to abuse, tense confrontations, peril |
| Diversity Issues: | A strength of the movie is positive portrayal of gay characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: | 2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000J3FBDO |
Armistad Maupin (Tales of the City) didn’t trust his own story in his adaptation of his novel inspired by something that happened to him. But what could have been a thoughtful psychological drama raising issues of identity and trust and the meaning of the stories we tell deteriorates into distracting melodrama. We spend too much …
