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Posted on June 13, 2019 at 5:49 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action, some language and suggestive material |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Comic inter-species sexual situations, sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended sci-fi/comic book style peril and violence including weapons and explosions, some graphic images |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 14, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
September 9, 2019 |
So, you watch “Thor Ragnarock” and you say, “Boy, I’d watch Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in anything!” And you watch the original “Men in Black” and you say, “Boy, this is one of the best movies ever, funny, smart, exciting, with wonderfully vivid and engaging human and non-human characters. I’d like to see more …
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Posted on June 13, 2019 at 5:34 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for pervasive language, violence, sexual content, some drug material and brief nudity |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-sexual graphic nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, references to drug abuse |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 14, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
August 26, 2019 |
“The Last Man in San Francisco” is an exquisitely filmed story about love and loss, beauty and pain. The star of the film is a young black man named Jimmie Fails, played by a writer and actor named Jimmie Fails, and the script is based on a story by Fails and director Joe Talbot, friends …
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Posted on June 13, 2019 at 5:25 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for pervasive language, violence, sexual content, some drug material and brief nudity |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language including the n-word and many crude terms |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity, sexual references, extended crude, homophobic, transphobic, and sexist humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drug dealing, drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended and graphic crime-style peril and violence, characters injured and killed, graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 14, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
September 23, 2019 |
Cheerfully retro past the point of winking at us, through the point of smirking at us, up to the point of pushing back in favor of toxic masculinity, the new “Shaft” is an above-average summer chases, wisecracks, and shoot-out movie, thanks to its cast, its heritage, and of course the most memorable movie soundtrack theme …
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Posted on June 13, 2019 at 11:16 am
In honor of Father’s Day, my eBook, 50 Must-See Movies: Fathers is FREE through Father’s Day, this weekend, June 14-17, 2019. What do “Wall Street” and the “Star Wars” saga and, seemingly, about half the movies ever made have in common? They are about fathers. In “Wall Street,” Charlie Sheen plays the ambitious Bud, who respects …
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Posted on June 6, 2019 at 5:15 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some action and rude humor |
| Profanity: |
Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Cat becomes intoxicated on catnip |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended action/cartoon-style peril and violence including whip, gun, taser, and tranquilizer dart used on animals, fistfight played for humor |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 7, 2019 |
Well, what a nice surprise! “The Secret Life of Pets 2” is a vast improvement over the original, which had a promising beginning but ended up with a lackluster imitation of “Toy Story.” This sequel combines three different stories and adds some terrific new characters all in a zippy under 90 minutes. It is colorful, …
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