New on Streaming
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B +
B
Posted on September 6, 2005 at 6:52 pm
D
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language for a PG-13 |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Crude humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic/action violence, including guns |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie, strong minority and female characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
As generic as its title, this drearily predictable and tushie-obsessed buddy cop movie has just one distinction — it wastes more talent in less time than we get to see very often outside of straight-to-video releases. We’ve seen everything here so, so, many times before and done so much better. Take one tough, break-the-rules loner …
Continue reading “The Man”
Posted on September 5, 2005 at 10:08 am
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
Some crude humor |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Grotesque and creepy images, characters in peril, injured, and killed, question of suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
It’s the details that matter in this movie more than the characters, the story, or even the music, all blander than in writer/director Tim Burton’s first claymation movie, Nightmare Before Christmas. Still, there is a goulishly enchanting love triangle and spectacularly spot-on voice talent. And, what really matters, every moment is filled with wonderfully witty …
Continue reading “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
Posted on September 5, 2005 at 9:04 am
A bear is wandering through farms looking for something to eat. An angry and abusive man is following the woman who left him because he wants her to come back, or because he wants to hit her again, or both. Neither appears threatening at the moment, but both can and have inflicted great damage and …
Continue reading “An Unfinished Life”
Posted on September 1, 2005 at 5:04 am
B-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual situation, implied nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Frequent peril and violence, scary creatures, guns, characters killed, suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
The most remarkable special effect in this movie based on Ray Bradbury’s classic science fiction short story is Ben Kingsley’s hair. The usually-bald actor has been given a thick thatch so white it almost glows in the dark. He even has a little white soul patch under his lip. Now that’s scary. It is set …
Continue reading “A Sound of Thunder”
Posted on August 31, 2005 at 3:33 pm
B
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
Brief mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Emotional confrontations, a punch in the nose |
| Diversity Issues: |
Class issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
When you give a movie the title “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” expectations will be pretty high. When it turns out that the game in question is a golf match that occured almost a century ago between two people most people have never heard of, expectations plummet. This movie is somewhere in the middle. Golf …
Continue reading “The Greatest Game Ever Played”
