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Posted on August 30, 2005 at 7:02 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual situation and references, brief nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Cocaine dealers |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Near-constant peril, fighting, shooting, car chases, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Silly but stylish, this sequel to The Transporter is, like the original, all about the chases and fight scenes. It’s about the usual for a sequel — 2/3 of the quality of the original, but like its title character, it still delivers. Jason Statham returns as Frank, the unflappable former special services guy who is …
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Posted on August 30, 2005 at 3:21 pm
Audacious, ambitious, and provocative but uneven and ultimately unsatisfying, this long-delayed film adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel of class, love, and power, The Great Gatsby, to the present. Instead of Jay Gatsby, the gangster who can’t forget the girl he lost, we have Summer G, the gangsta, the head of a successful hip-hop recording …
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Posted on August 30, 2005 at 2:45 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references and situations, nudity, adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, drug use and drug dealing, character becomes addicted to cocaine |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
A theme of the movie -- a great deal of brutal and graphic gun and other weapons-related violence and peril, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Characters of different races and cultures |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
It’s a classic American success story. An immigrant with a dream and a vision works hard and becomes wealthy and successful. He marries the girl he fell in love with at age 10 and they and their son live in a beautiful apartment in New York, on top of the world. Unfortunately, all of this …
Continue reading “Lord of War”
Posted on August 26, 2005 at 3:11 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Some strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Bathroom humor, some crude language and insults |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Teen drinking, illegal drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Action violence and peril, some graphic injuries, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Apparently, when Nick Cannon was growing up, he dreamed of being Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop. It seems he also wanted to be Jon Cryer in Hiding Out. So, when he got a chance to produce a feature film for himself, he combined the two and came up with “The Underclassman.” From Beverly Hills …
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Posted on August 26, 2005 at 6:29 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Strong language, casual use of graphic expletives |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-sexual male and female nudity, an extremely rapid relationship consummation, naked pregnant woman, breastfeeding, references to AIDS, adultery, homosexuality, sex for gain |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking and smoking, references to cigarette-related cancer, deaths from pharmaceutical testing |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Brutality, torture, murder, dead bodies including burn victims, references to mental illness, rape and suicide, children killed and kidnapped, pillagers raze town, mature themes including altruism, disregard for life, a stillborn child |
| Diversity Issues: |
Extremely brave and strong female, minority and homosexual characters, severe poverty portrayed with depth and respect |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) turns his Brazilian –cinematic—jujitsu on an emotionally gnarled book by England’s spy king, John LeCarré, with an equatorial glare that dares the audience to keep up with characters bathed in every shade of black, white and gray. A movie this ambitious will win over some audiences, attracted by fine …
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