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Posted on April 27, 2005 at 1:53 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some 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 “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
Posted on April 26, 2005 at 1:53 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some schoolyard sexual references, references to gay marriage, puberty, child abuse, pregnancy |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
References to drug dealers |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some tense and sad moments in the competition, |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie, references to gay marriage |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“Can I have the gentlemen tuck in their shirts, please?” This is a question politely but firmly addressed to a group of underprivleged 5th graders in New York. And not in the 1950’s. Now. The 10 year old “gentlemen” do tuck in their shirts. And then they take their partners and they do the merengue …
Continue reading “Mad Hot Ballroom”
Posted on April 25, 2005 at 7:38 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language, one f-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Constant action-style violence, shooting, explosions, fighting, many characters killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Can we ever see Ice Cube as a gangsta again after Barbershop and Are We There Yet? Do we want to? Ice Cube is a fine actor who can do a lot with a strong script (Boyz n The Hood and Three Kings). But he seems to be phoning this performance in between development deals. …
Continue reading “XXX: State of the Union”
Posted on April 22, 2005 at 9:54 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
Mild |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, scenes in bar, characters get drunk |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
None |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
When a movie is called “The Game of Their Lives,” you know they’re not going for subtlety.
Posted on April 22, 2005 at 9:50 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief scene with strippers, reference to adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
References to drinking, bars |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Character commits suicide (off-camera) |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong and honorable female characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“Ask why.” That was the question at the end of the television commercials for Enron, five years in a row Fortune magazine’s “most innovative company” for the way it revolutionized the market for natural gas. But, as we all now know too well, its greatest innovation was in the area of financial fraud. It went …
Continue reading “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”
