New on Streaming
B +
B +
B
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Eddie and Sarah have (off-screen) sex; implication that Bert and Sarah have sex, a factor in her suicide |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
A lot of drinking, much of it to excess; smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Eddie beat up (in shadows); Sarah commits suicide (off-screen) |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
1962 |
Plot: “Fast” Eddie Felsen (Paul Newman) is a pool hustler. He and his partner, Charlie, go into pool halls and set the local players up. Eddie pretends to be a pool player who likes to make big bets. When he beats them and takes their money, he makes it look like luck, so they can’t …
Continue reading “The Hustler”
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
D
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Many sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
A lot of drinking, scenes in bar |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril |
| Diversity Issues: |
The Ladies Man is an equal opportunity seducer |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2000 |
First, the good news. (1) It isn’t very long. If you are going to waste time at a movie, you won’t waste more than 85 minutes on this one. (2) It isn’t as bad as some of the other SNL movies, like “Superstar” and “It’s Pat.” It’s more of the caliber of “Stuart Saves His …
Continue reading “The Ladies Man”
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
C+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| Profanity: |
One mild profanity |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Teenage girl says "Talk dirty to me," and boy reads Playboy, Alex's girlfriend clearly expects to engage in necking with him, and gets offended by the Simuloid because he blows a circuit every time she nibbles his ear. |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sci-fi shootouts |
| Diversity Issues: |
People of different races (species?) work together. |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
1984 |
Plot: This adventure saga mixes an update of the old system of “recruiting” sailors by shanghai with the fantasy of saving the universe by being a star at computer games. It turns out that one particular arcade game is really a test, put on earth by very advanced beings from another planet, to find someone …
Continue reading “The Last Starfighter”
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Brief mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations including a proposal to trade sex for a favor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Character abuses alcohol, drinking and smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tension, brief but brutal battle scenes in WWI flashback, off-camera suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
Black character treated very respectfully, if anachronistically |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2000 |
There is a golden boy, young, handsome, a champion golfer, and he wins the heart of Adele (Charlize Theron), the most beautiful debutante in Georgia. His roots in Savannah are so deep that even his name seems spelled with a Southern accent — Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon). Then he goes off to fight in World …
Continue reading “The Legend of Bagger Vance”
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
C+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Several four-letter words |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild reference to pregnancy |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Comic drunkenness, character has hangover |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Lots of acrobatic fights and cartoon-style violence--some bloody but not too scary |
| Diversity Issues: |
Heroes are Chinese, bad guys are English and Chinese, some sexism |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2000 |
One of Jackie Chan’s best Chinese films is being re-released in a dubbed version with a new score. It is a sequel to the movie that made him an international star. Though it was made 15 years later than the first, it takes place immediately after the first, set in turn-of-the-century China. Wong Fei-Hong (Chan) …
Continue reading “The Legend of Drunken Master”
