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Posted on May 6, 2019 at 7:00 am
In honor of Mother’s Day, my ebook 50 Must-See Movies: Mothers will be free on Amazon from Monday, May 6 to Friday, May 10, 2019. No relationship is more primal, more fraught, more influential, more worried over, more nourishing when good and more devastating when bad that our connection to our mothers. Mom inspires …
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Posted on May 2, 2019 at 5:50 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong sexual content, language throughout and some drug use |
| Profanity: |
Constant very strong and vulgar langauge |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references and graphic situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, including drinking to deal with stress, drunkenness, drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril and violence, some wartime violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 3, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
July 22, 2019 |
Remember in “Say Anything” when high school valedictorian who had done everything right and won every prize Diane Cort was described as a brain “trapped in the body of a game show hostess?” Well, imagine her character grown up and in Washington. In “Long Shot,” Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) is Secretary of State for a …
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Posted on May 2, 2019 at 2:04 pm
I love summer movies! And this summer is filled with long-anticipated blockbusters and under-the-radar indies. Some I’m especially looking forward to: Superheroes Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, currently featured in “Avengers: Endgame,” will be back for “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” X-Men’s Jean Grey gets her own cosmic ray transformation in “Dark Phoenix.” Want more from the X-Men universe? …
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Posted on April 24, 2019 at 10:42 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and some language |
| Profanity: |
A handful of swear words including one said by a child |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended sci-fi/fantasy/comic book action, peril, and violence, battle scenes, characters injured and killed, very sad deaths |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
April 25, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
August 12, 2019 |
Marvel Studios sticks the landing with “Avengers: Endgame,” a completely satisfying conclusion to the nearly two dozen films, bringing together the stories of a wide range of characters with complex, varied mythologies extending back over decades of stories in comics and other media. We need to all take a moment to pay tribute to Kevin …
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Posted on April 23, 2019 at 6:00 am
