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Posted on October 28, 2005 at 5:34 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Reference to ruined reputation of girl who runs away with an officer without being married |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
None |
| Diversity Issues: |
Class issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the best romantic novel in the English language must perpetually be in need of a remake. And it is equally true that movie adaptations of Pride and Prejudice face an odious dilemma. On the one side, there are the “Janeites,” those passionate Austen-ophiles who would prefer that her …
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Posted on October 25, 2005 at 7:05 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references and situations, including child molestation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, references to drug use by teenager |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Fighting, sad death, arrows |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
In this movie, David Spritz (Nicolas Cage) pays tribute to his father, Robert (an immaculate performance by Michael Caine) by quoting a Bob Seger song. So I’ll begin my review with a quote from a Bob Dylan song: “You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind is blowing.” Spritz is the …
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Posted on October 25, 2005 at 12:54 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief nudity, sexual references and explicit sexual situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, reference to drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense emotional confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: |
All major characters white |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“Shopgirl” is a luminous, if melancholy, modern-day fairy tale about a lost princess named Mirabelle (Claire Danes) whose path to true love is complicated when she meets an evil enchanter. Okay, he’s not evil; he’s Steve Martin, who co-stars as Ray and who wrote the screenplay and the novella that inspired it. And he’s not, …
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Posted on October 19, 2005 at 6:29 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief nudity, reference to "she-boys" |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense, graphic violence, characters wounded, mutilated, killed, and then re-killed, grisly and graphic images, lots of guns and explosions |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
The movie is called “Doom” and it’s based on a video game. So no one is expecting insights into the human condition or subtle performances. We’re here to see stuff get blown up, baby. And that’s what we get — it’s a big, loud explosion movie, the same old bang-bang, boom-boom, yuck-yuck, wham-wham. In an …
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Posted on October 18, 2005 at 8:16 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references and sexual harassment, rape, out of wedlock children |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, reference to marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense, hostile, verbal and physical assaults, domestic abuse, sad illness |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“North Country” was “inspired by a true story,” but instead of sticking to the undeniably moving facts of the sexual harassment suit filed by female mineworkers, this movie veers off into distracting and soapy subplots. It doesn’t trust its story, it doesn’t trust its characters, and it doesn’t trust its audience. It’s an attempt to …
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