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Posted on November 8, 2005 at 11:00 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Extremely strong language, including n-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, sexual and non-sexual nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters use and deal in drugs, drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
A lot of violence, including fights, stabbing, shooting, reference to rape, many characters injured and killed, reference to suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
It begins with a burst of energy and charisma as Marcus (rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) and his friends break into a store so they can rob it. They don’t break in so much as explode in. Director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In America) creates an electric sense of high testosterone and tension. And …
Continue reading “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”
Posted on November 4, 2005 at 1:39 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
Very crude language for a PG |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
References to "hooking up," brief and mild but unsavory reference |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Constant action-style violence and peril, no one hurt except for some aliens |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
There’s a lot to look at in this movie, but unpleasant characters keep getting in the way. And I don’t mean the bad guys. In this follow-on to Jumanji, like this movie, based on a book by Chris Van Allsburg, children once again come upon an old board game that turns out to be real. …
Continue reading “Zathura”
Posted on November 1, 2005 at 8:42 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
Brief crude humor |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kiss |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Mild peril, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
You know that nightmare of appearing at school in your underwear? That happens to poor Chicken Little (voice of Zach Braff of TV’s “Scrubs”), a tiny little chick with big glasses perched uncertainly on his beak, but he has the heart of a lion. And Disney’s first-ever fully computer-animated movie movie has a wonderfully fresh …
Continue reading “Chicken Little”
Posted on November 1, 2005 at 5:29 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Constant extremely strong and vulgar language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Extremely explict sexual references and situations, nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, including drunkenness, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Battle violence, guns, charred bodies, fighting |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters are brave and loyal |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Estragon and Vladimir wait for someone (God?) who never arrives, evoking the absurdity and powerlessness of the modern condition. In “Jarhead,” based on the memoirs of Persian Gulf veteran Anthony Swofford, Marine recruits wait for something (war) that never arrives. The absurdity and powerlessness of their condition is evoked …
Continue reading “Jarhead”
Posted on November 1, 2005 at 1:58 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief explicit sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense emotional scenes, mental illness |
| Diversity Issues: |
Religious differences a theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
A little girl who thought she was the ordinary member of the family discovers a talent for spelling, in this thoughtful movie based on the best-seller by Myla Goldberg. But this is not a fictionalized version of the superb documentary Spellbound. It is a story about breaking apart, from the letters in a word to …
Continue reading “Bee Season”
