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Posted on May 8, 2005 at 12:24 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic, cartoon-style violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Jane Fonda is having such a blast being back on screen in a pull-out-all-the-stops performance that it seems a little stingy not to enjoy it more. But this latest variation on Meet the Parents and Cinderella is always a little less charming, a little less funny, and a lot less entertaining than it thinks it …
Continue reading “Monster-in-Law”
Posted on May 7, 2005 at 6:47 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-explicit sexual situation, adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Wine |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme, intense, graphic, and constant violence and peril, grisly images |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
This huge, clanging epic about the 12th century Crusades is too beautiful to be bad, too clumsy to be good, too long to be comfortable, too uneven to be powerful, and has a leading character too lightweight to be compelling. “Kingdom of Heaven” has the scope but lacks the power and resonance of the same …
Continue reading “Kingdom of Heaven”
Posted on May 6, 2005 at 9:23 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit references to sex, jokes about sexual acts and homosexual overtones, non-explicit striptease between a couple, references to unintended pregnancy |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Slasher-movie violence including decapitation, impaling, torture, explicit deaths of characters |
| Diversity Issues: |
Stereotypes; the two-dimensional characters include a minority and a "strong" woman |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Just when it seemed that Hollywood was running out of paint-by-numbers horror movie remakes, along oozes the half-baked “House of Wax” to leave its greasy smear on movie non-history. If the project was an independent label’s small budget scream-fest, with unknown actors and a rougher feel, then there might have been something gutsy to redeem …
Continue reading “House of Wax”
Posted on April 29, 2005 at 4:32 pm
Everyone is angry. Everyone is scared. They all feel that something that belongs to them has been taken away and they don’t know how to get it back. And in this movie, they say so. “Crash,” the winner of the 2006 Best Picture Oscar, is an ensemble film with several intersecting stories, all of them …
Continue reading “Crash”
Posted on April 28, 2005 at 9:26 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kissing |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking in pub |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic, cartoon-style violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
Very diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman of “The Office”) is in his bathrobe one Thursday morning, bumping his head, burning his toast, and engaging in a completely ineffectual protest of the new highway by-pass that has a flank of bulldozers ready to mow down his house. It is ineffectual first because the bulldozer operators seem perfectly willing …
Continue reading “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
