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Posted on October 15, 2005 at 7:10 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
Brief crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kisses |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking, character gets tipsy |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Constant action violence, characters wounded and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Great stunts, glamorous stars, and our affection for the characters make this sequel watchable, even with a disappointing script. The original was pure popcorn pleasure, with Anthony Hopkins as the original Zorro, the dashing masked swashbuckler who appeared wherever justice was threatened to right wrongs and of course leave the “Z.” He trained impetuous but …
Continue reading “The Legend of Zorro”
Posted on October 15, 2005 at 1:27 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some tense moments |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
There is one thoroughbred on the screen in this film and her name is Dakota Fanning. Ever since her breakthrough performance at the age of six in I am Sam, when she more than held her own with Sean Penn and Michele Pfeiffer, through her appearances with heavyweights from Robert de Niro (Hide and Seek) …
Continue reading “Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story”
Posted on October 13, 2005 at 8:47 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language for a PG-13 |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references for a PG-13, sexual situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
None |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Writer-director Ben Younger, who perflectly nailed the high-testosterone world of pump-and-dump stock scams in Boiler Room, is a bit more uneven with a switch over to the estrogen side of things with “Prime.” It is the story of an unusual love triangle: Rafi, a vulnerable recent divorcee (Uma Thurman), David, her passionate, much-younger lover (Bryan …
Continue reading “Prime”
Posted on October 12, 2005 at 12:52 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references and situations including adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense and sad scenes, character appears to be seriously ill |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
A hyper-verbal, deeply wounded man who is almost as clever (but not nearly as brilliant) as he thinks he is has an ego that has been triply hit. His unfaithful wife wants a divorce, his writing career, once called promising, now feels like the promise was broken, and the onset of middle age has left …
Continue reading “The Squid and the Whale”
Posted on October 11, 2005 at 6:27 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense and sad scenes, attempted suicide, characters coping with loss |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
I’ve always suspected that a failed Cameron Crowe movie would be more entertaining than a successful movie by most Hollywood screenwriters, and this shows I was right. Okay, Vanilla Sky was not exactly entertaining, but it wasn’t exactly a CC movie, either. In this movie, Crowe returns to what he does best, quirky, hyper-verbal characters …
Continue reading “Elizabethtown”
