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Posted on December 11, 2005 at 12:57 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some sexual reference. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Crude sexual humor for a PG-13 |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril, theme of fatal illness |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000ERVJJK |
Every night, Georgia Bird (Queen Latifah) cooks a spectacular meal, arranges everything perfectly, takes a picture of it for her “possibilities” scrapbook and then feeds it to the boy who lives next door while she microwaves a frozen diet dinner for herself. She works at a store where she meekly goes along with whatever her …
Continue reading “Last Holiday”
Posted on December 9, 2005 at 3:21 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong graphic violence, some sexual content, nudity and language. |
| Profanity: |
Mild language for an R-rated film |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual situations, some nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extremely intense and graphic peril and violence, many characters killed, child in peril |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000F1IQN2 |
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meier said, “I can forgive them for killing my children. I cannot forgive them for forcing my children to kill theirs.” At the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, there was very little security because the Germans were hoping to counter memories of the Nazi-run 1936 Olympics in Berlin. In what later …
Continue reading “Munich”
Posted on December 7, 2005 at 3:25 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for battle sequences and frightening moments. |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Very intense battle violence with graphic injuries and sad deaths |
| Diversity Issues: |
A metaphorical theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000E8M0VA |
The perennial children’s classic by C. S. Lewis has been lovingly, thrillingly, enchantingly, brilliantly brought to screen in this flawless adaptation of the first of the “Narnia” series. (Note for purists — yes, it is chronologically the second in the order of the story, but it was the first Lewis wrote.) It is one of …
Continue reading “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”
Posted on December 4, 2005 at 3:31 pm
Maybe it’s just that my expectations were so low because it was not screened for critics (meaning the studios did not think they would get even one good review), but “Aeon Flux” was not so bad. A little boring, yes, especially in the middle section, a little silly and pretentious, yes, we could have done …
Continue reading “Aeon Flux”
Posted on December 4, 2005 at 3:29 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and a momentary drug reference. |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language for a PG-13 |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking, video tape of drunken behavior, references to drug use, discussion of marijuana use while in competition |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Peril, accidents that clearly cause pain, stunt attempts gone awry |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong, competitive female snowboarder |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000E0WJKK |
When the helicopter takes you to the snowy peaks at the end of the paved road, where “backcountry” describes a style and a philosophy as oppose to a location, you know you are about to see something beautiful. As if snowboarding was not amazing enough in its gravity-defying freestyle and its seemingly-unstoppable downhill speed, this …
Continue reading “First Descent”
