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Posted on April 21, 2005 at 7:10 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some crude and strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Raunchy humor, sexual references and non-explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic violence, including punch in the crotch |
| Diversity Issues: |
Most characters African-American, makes fun of religious character |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
At times, during this movie, I looked up at the ceiling, not so much casting my eyes heavenward for assistance as trying to find something more interesting to look at than what was on the screen. The ceiling won, hands down. Then there were other moments when I watched the movie trying to imagine how …
Continue reading “King’s Ransom”
Posted on April 19, 2005 at 8:07 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tension and violence, including shooting, characters in peril and some killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“The Interpreter” is a watchable, if not always absorbing thriller, thanks to sheer star power and top directing talent. Nicole Kidman is Silvia, an American raised in Africa, who works as an interpreter at the United Nations. One night she overhears an assassination plot that appears to be about a controversial head of state who …
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Posted on April 15, 2005 at 5:26 pm
Going over the same ground as the original 1975 cult classic and its many derivative offspring, this “Amityville Horror” provides enough of a shiver for novice horror fans to guarantee an opening-weekend audience but, for more well-versed fans of the genre, will feel like a redundant round of recycling. The script here differs slightly from …
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Posted on April 7, 2005 at 12:01 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Strong language for a PG-13 |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Borderline-R sexual references and situations, non-explicit nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
A lot of drinking and smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense scenes |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Somebody decided to remake When Harry Met Sally but they left out the charm, the wit, the detail, the sincerity, the endearing characters, the romance, the scene in the deli, and the great soundtrack. Unsurprisingly, it does not work. This movie is not “A Lot Like Love.” It should be called “Nothing Whatsoever Like Love …
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Posted on April 4, 2005 at 2:16 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations, brief crude humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, brief smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense scenes |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
The only thing surprising about this completely conventional big studio date movie is that it comes from the joyfully outrageous Farrelly brothers (There’s Something About Mary, Shallow Hal) and the literary but widely-read Nick Hornby. The Hollywood studio de-flavorizing machine has toned them down and flattened them out and the result is perfectly enjoyable but …
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