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Posted on September 26, 2005 at 5:31 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Extremely strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Extremely explicit sexual references, explicit sexual situation, some nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, drug use by adults and underage teens, including huffing |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Disgusting behavior |
| Diversity Issues: |
Homophobic humor |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
I’ve said it before, but apparently some out there were not listening, so here I go again. Disgusting is not the same as funny. Now, please, pay attention this time, because I do not want to have to sit through another endlessly tediously mind-meltingly worthless and utterly predictable movie that is so hopeless it appears …
Continue reading “Waiting”
Posted on September 25, 2005 at 2:36 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sci-fi action violence, creatures that torture and eat humans, characters (including children) injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, strong women and minorities |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Creator of Buffy the the Vampire Slayer Joss Whedon has populated another world with tough, smart-talking characters fighting the darkest evil. And once again the heart of the force for good is a not entirely unconflicted or uncomplicated adolescent girl. Buffy was a teenager whose high school happened to be located on the Hellmouth. Her …
Continue reading “Serenity”
Posted on September 22, 2005 at 7:44 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references and situations, nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, teens smoke marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Very intense and graphic violence, characters injured and killed, grisly images of wounded and murdered characters |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong woman character |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Flies buzz and bump against a window as a woman looks out helplessly at a scene of terrible violence on her once-placid front lawn, in her once-peaceful community. A little girl wakes up from a dream of monsters and is comforted by her loving family at the same time that another little girl walks into …
Continue reading “A History of Violence”
Posted on September 19, 2005 at 8:13 pm
It’s always a bad sign in a thriller when the big reveal is greeted by hoots of derisive laughter, and that’s what happened at this movie. It’s an even worse sign when two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster is out-acted by a child who is missing or unconscious for most of the movie, but that happened, …
Continue reading “Flightplan”
Posted on September 18, 2005 at 2:21 pm
A curiously distant story is surrounded by enchanting visuals and special effects in this Alice in Wonderland-style tale of a young girl who has to solve a puzzle in a magical land in order to get back home and help her mother get well. Helena (Stephanie Leonidas) has, as her mother points out, a life …
Continue reading “MirrorMask”
