Posted on August 21, 2005 at 5:13 am
We start out on the side of the four adopted brothers who reunite to find the people who murdered their mother, but they lose us in this over-violent and under-sincere story that strays from justice past revenge and into mindless vigilantism. Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan) is a tough but warm-hearted woman who spent her life …
Posted on August 20, 2005 at 9:47 am
A| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual situation and references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Teen drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Tense emotional confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 1989 |
Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) is an engagingly aimless high school graduate who likes junk food and kickboxing. Courageously, he sets his heart on Diane Court (Ione Skye), the most beautiful and brilliant girl in school, described as a brain “trapped inside the body of a game show hostess.” Lloyd has no conventional “smooth” talk but …
Posted on August 17, 2005 at 2:21 pm
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language including racial epithets |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sweet kisses |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Adult social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Some tense moments, references to sad loss, brief violence (no one hurt) |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie, diverse characters, racial epithets |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2005 |
In Undercover Brother, director Malcolm Lee’s shrewd but affectionate appreciation of the 1970’s was played for satire. In “Roll Bounce,” he brings that same evocative skill to a coming of age story that is sweet, funny, touching, and completely genuine. Lee creates not just the era some of us remember but also the moment all …
Posted on August 16, 2005 at 6:45 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: | Brief profanity |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Brief sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, scene in a bar |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Intense peril and violence, brief graphic images, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | Strong female character |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2005 |
Master of horror Wes Craven moves into the thriller genre, showing us that scary is scary, with or without grotesque killers (A Nightmare on Elm Street) or grotesque killings (the Scream trilogy). Craven’s sure sense of pace and ability to make the characters real enough to pull us in without becoming distracting makes this tense …
Posted on August 15, 2005 at 3:25 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | 4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: | Brief profanity |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Mild sexual situation, some sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, reference to drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Intense action scenes, some crashes and injuries |
| Diversity Issues: | Strong female characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2005 |
I’ve got to give this movie some credit for its lack of pretense and the modesty of its goals. The title says it all. This movie is called “Supercross” and that’s exactly what it is. It’s pretty much just supercross racing — motorcycle cross-country racing on off-road tracks with added extreme man-made obstacles. That’s all …
