Posted on March 15, 2019 at 8:00 am
I really enjoyed this Entertainment Weekly list of the best songs performed by musical groups on television and in films. Of course it includes the legendary Robin Sparkles “Let’s Go to the Mall” from “How I Met Your Mother” and he title song from “That Thing You Do” — though every song in that film …
Posted on March 14, 2019 at 5:09 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for some mild thematic elements and action |
| Profanity: | Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some boy-girl crush moments and a kiss |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Serious illness of a parent, action/fantasy peril and some violence |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | March 15, 2019 |
| Date Released to DVD: | June 17, 2019 |
I’m pretty sure that the people behind Nickelodeon’s animated feature “Wonder Park” snuck a little love letter to their own childhood selves in this tribute to the power of imagination. They also bring the insight of their adult selves to the film’s most important insight: Not only do imagination and creativity enrich our lives and …
Posted on March 12, 2019 at 8:00 am
On Medium, Shelby Fielding makes a strong case that the greatest filmmaker of the 21st Century is Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige. Feige, 45, and Marvel Studios have taught a moviegoing audience who may have never even thought about picking up and flipping through a comic book before, how to absorb a narrative over the course …
Posted on March 11, 2019 at 3:58 pm
For rogerebert.com’s Women Writer’s Week, I wrote an essay about how two films, both made 25 years ago, transformed the way female sexuality is portrayed on screen. Before these films, female characters either seemed unaware of sex or determined not to have sex until marriage. If they did, the consequences were usually terrible — an …
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Posted on March 10, 2019 at 8:00 am
Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins star in “Tolkien,” about the early years of the author of the Lord of the Rings books.
