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Posted on June 26, 2006 at 12:05 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some sensuality. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, poor decision-making about a sexual situation when tipsy |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense and upsetting verbal confrontations, break-ups |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000J103PC |
It is just too bad Meryl Streep is so good at drama and suffering and accents and stuff like that because that means we don’t get enough of a chance to see how brilliantly funny she is. Her under-appreciated work in Death Becomes Her, Defending Your Life, and She-Devil is fearless, ego-less, and apparently effortless, …
Continue reading “The Devil Wears Prada”
Posted on June 21, 2006 at 12:16 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for language, crude and sex-related humor, and some drug references. |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language for a PG-13 including profanity used by children, f-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit (comic) sex for a PG-13 |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Cigar smoking, drug jokes |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril, serious illness, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000HT386M |
Like Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler has based his career on playing shallow, callow boy-men who learn painful for him/humorous for us lessons about the importance of growing up. Those stories have enduring appeal on two levels. First, we get the pleasure of seeing someone who can be irresponsible and child-like, acting out a fantasy of …
Continue reading “Click”
Posted on June 20, 2006 at 12:23 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong violence and pervasive language. |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language including many uses of the n-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kissing, non-explicit sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drug use, characters deal drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Graphic violence, characters shot and many injured and killed, child in peril, man's hand sliced off, punching |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000HDZKLO |
A standard gangsta bang-bang movie with a script like a rap song benefits from charismatic performers and smooth writing and direction by Vondie Curtis Hall, who plays it like an urban western — a strong, quiet loner takes on a corrupt man who runs the town with the help of a girl gone wrong with …
Continue reading “Waist Deep”
Posted on June 19, 2006 at 8:00 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some language and a disturbing image. |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kissing |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, scenes in bar |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Non-graphic injuries, deaths, scenes in hospital |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000HEWEE4 |
In honor of Sandra Bullock’s best all-time movie opening with “The Proposal,” this week’s DVD pick is another Bullock favorite. Movie romances must have two things: an obstacle to keep the apart and a reason to root for them to get together. This has both. Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock have so much chemistry (perhaps …
Continue reading “The Lake House”
Posted on June 11, 2006 at 12:36 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sensuality, sex references and accident scenes. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, references to promiscuity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Scary accident with serious injuries |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000QEIOSU |
