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Posted on June 23, 2004 at 6:45 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief shots of revealing native attire |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Characters in peril, hunting, most violence off-screen |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, colonialism issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
This is the story of magnificent creatures gorgeously photographed in a story that is quietly told and genuinely touching. Two tigers meet in the jungle of Southeast Asia and are drawn to one another. Soon they have twins, shy Sangha and adventurous Kumal. They frolic, explore, and tease each other in the huge, vine-covered ruins …
Continue reading “Two Brothers”
Posted on June 23, 2004 at 5:14 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Brief reference to marijuana, brief alcohol references |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
War violence, including very explicit footage of wounded soldiers and civilians |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
This is the movie that won the movie world’s highest accolade — a sort of international Oscar — the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme D’Or. And it is the movie that columnist Christopher Hitchens attacked as “a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject …
Continue reading “Fahrenheit 9/11”
Posted on June 23, 2004 at 4:58 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and some drug content |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language for a PG-13 |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very vulgar references for a PG-13 |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drug humor, drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic violence including guns, characters shot but no one badly hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 23, 2004 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
October 26, 2004 |
Appealing performers and a couple of very funny moments don’t make up for a lazy and generic script in this predictable farce about two black male FBI agents who go undercover as spoiled rich white girls. I knew we were in trouble when there was a “Hammer Time” joke in the first few minutes, a …
Continue reading “White Chicks”
Posted on June 18, 2004 at 5:49 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Graphic war footage including serious wounds |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
Truth is a mosaic. Facts are the tiles that have to be pieced together, and it is only in standing back and looking at the whole that one can see the patterns. This documentary by Jehane Noujaim tries to provide some of that perspective by letting us look at the Arab news network Al-Jazeera and …
Continue reading “Control Room”
Posted on June 15, 2004 at 7:22 pm
Think Bad News Bears crossed with Happy Gilmore. Except with dodgeball, which means many, many opportunities for humorous slams to the head, chest, and crotch. That pretty much sums it up. Pete (Vince Vaughn) is about to lose his gym, the comfy hang-out “Average Joe’s,” to White (Ben Stiller), the owner of the uber-exercise facility …
Continue reading “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”
