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Posted on January 10, 2006 at 12:20 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for intense battle sequences and some sexuality. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong medieval language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations, including adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Graphic and gory battle violence, many deaths |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000EPFCPE |
Tristan and Isolde have suffered enough. This movie feels like overkill. Oh, their legend will survive. But this classic comics-style perfume commercial of a re-telling will not. The ampersand is a giveaway. “And” isn’t good enough? An ampersand is, what, edgier? Who needs edgier when you’ve got James Franco? His cheekbones alone could cut glass, …
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Posted on January 7, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Miss Moffat (Bette Davis), an educated and very independent woman, arrives in a small Welsh mining village in 1895 to live in a house she inherited and start a school for the miners’ children. She is told, “Down here, they’re only children until they’re twelve. Then they are sent away to the mine and are …
Continue reading “The Corn is Green”
Posted on January 6, 2006 at 2:52 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some sexuality. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references and situations, including adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Brief graphic violence, characters killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Class issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2006 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000EQHXNW |
In Stardust Memories, Woody Allen’s character refers to his mother’s cooking as putting food through the “deflavorizing machine.” His latest movie feels as though he has taken his complex and powerful Crimes and Misdemeanors abd put it through a deflavorizing machine. It raises many of the same themes, but it is flatter, more superficial, less …
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Posted on December 21, 2005 at 2:56 pm
If you believe the previews or have seen the poster of an aggressively extended and bejeweled ring finger, then you might presume that “The Family Stone” is going to be a light-hearted romp of a comedy. Boy brings home uptight girl to meet his kooky and free-spirited family, amusing and embarrassing behavior follows, family and …
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Posted on December 20, 2005 at 3:42 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content, crude humor and a drug reference. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Frequent sexual references, non-explicit sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, characters get drunk |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Reference to sad death |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000EMGICS |
In the savage satire The Player, actor/screenwriter Buck Henry makes a hilarious pitch for a sequel to The Graduate, something of a savage satire itself, though cloaked in the garb of a romantic fantasy of rebellion and authenticity. The thing about Henry’s pitch is that no one wants to see a squel to The Graduate; …
Continue reading “Rumor Has It”
