New on Streaming
B +
B +
B
Posted on August 26, 2005 at 5:26 am
C
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Not the usual bad words but some ugly exorcism-related dialogue |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters drink, including drinking to respond to stress |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Scary, instense peril, graphic disturbing images, subjects of demonic possesion and homicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
Different beliefs a theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
This muddled mess wants to be three things at once and fails at all of them. It wants to be a horror movie, a courtroom drama, and and inspiring spiritual statement, but each element detracts from the others and the end result is both overheated and cheesy, narratively weak and theologically suspect. The framework of …
Continue reading “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”
Posted on August 25, 2005 at 5:18 am
A
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some crude language, ethnic insults |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references, some crude |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Suicide, references to genocide and war |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
If a movie has two guys who could not be more different going on a difficult journey and one of them has a funny accent, a quirky dog, and a grumpy grandfather, you might expect slapstick and confrontations and misunderstandings and maybe some redemption, and you’d be right. But the last thing you might expect …
Continue reading “Everything Is Illuminated”
Posted on August 24, 2005 at 7:03 pm
C+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense peril and violence, characters killed, grisly images, scary surprises |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong and loyal diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
This movie unfolds as though the scenes were assembled in random order. At least I think that’s what it looks like; it is hard to say because it was so dark and murky looking. It appears to be some sort of story about a cave. These hotshot cave divers are called in to do some …
Continue reading “The Cave”
Posted on August 23, 2005 at 2:29 pm
B-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Scenes in a bar, drug reference, but main characters do not smoke or drink |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Brief scuffles, emotional scenes |
| Diversity Issues: |
All major characters white |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
It starts promisingly. Just as he is leaving New York for Los Angeles, aspiring musician Luke (Steven Strait) sees a beautiful girl on the subway. As her train is about to pull away, she tells him he has dropped his glove. Instead of taking it, he tosses her the other one, so she will have …
Continue reading “Undiscovered”
Posted on August 22, 2005 at 5:20 pm
B-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Brief crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kisses |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Creepy, scary peril, some grotesque and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong female character |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Too scary for kids and too thin for anyone else, Terry Gilliam’s latest movie, like his heroes’ tricks, has a lot of visual flair, but no substance. Gilliam’s version of the story about the folklorist Grimm brothers, Jacob (Heath Ledger) and Wilhelm (Matt Damon) has them as fakers and con men. They create illusions to …
Continue reading “The Brothers Grimm”
