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Posted on November 22, 2005 at 4:12 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence and language. |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense peril and violence including torture, suicide, terrorism, and assassination |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000F7CMRM |
Most movies tell us everything and then they tell it to us again, just to make sure. Some movies, like this one, tell us too little, making us work at it, making us lean forward in our seats, fill in the blanks ourselves and then talk to each other about it on the way home. …
Continue reading “Syriana”
Posted on November 22, 2005 at 10:40 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some sexual content |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Frequent sexual situations and references including promescuity and prostitution |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Action peril and violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
2006 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B000EDWKXI |
Mistake number one may be the title. There may be times in history when it is possible to have an appealing lead character whose primary interest in life is women, but this doesn’t seem to be it. For centuries, people have been fascinated by Casanova, an 18th century adventurer who made and lost fortunes, escaped …
Continue reading “Casanova”
Posted on November 20, 2005 at 10:45 am
When thinking about a Tony- and Pulitzer-prize winning musical based on an opera, an almost-entirely-sung story about homeless artists, some of them drug addicts, some infected with the AIDS virus, the director of Mrs. Doubtfire is not the first thought that comes to mind, but he turns out to be a wise choice. Director Chris …
Continue reading “Rent”
Posted on November 20, 2005 at 5:31 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Constant extremely strong and vulgar language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references and situations, including strippers and pornography |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters drink and get drunk, drive while drinking, and mix pills and alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Frequent explicit violence, including guns and knives, characters injured, tortured, and murdered |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
This is a rancid lump of coal in the toe of the Christmas stocking of the holiday movie season. Perhaps inspired by the unexpected success of last year’s anti-feel-good Bad Santa, this has that movie’s star, Billy Bob Thornton, as a pornographer named Vic who conspires with Charlie (John Cusack), a mob lawyer, to steal …
Continue reading “Ice Harvest”
Posted on November 16, 2005 at 8:26 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Many sexual references and some sexual situations, references to prostitution, sale of virginity, sexual assault |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, including drunkenness, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense and scary emotional scenes, child beaten, wartime violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Movies can show us visions of other worlds, exotic vistas, customs, fashions, rules. And they can show us visions of ourselves, with our longings, our fears, our dreams, the and the way love can include them all. “Memoirs of a Geisha” does both. It’s a story of a time and place whose mysteries have kept …
Continue reading “Memoirs of a Geisha”
