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Posted on November 8, 2018 at 5:48 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence, language and some sexual content/nudity |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual situations and some nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended peril and violence, explosions, guns, fights, torture, parent killed in front of child, domestic and child abuse, incest, very graphic and disturbing images, characters injured and killed, suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
November 9, 2018 |
Remember in “League of Their Own” when Tom Hanks said, “There’s no crying in baseball?” Well, there’s no crying in Lisbeth Salander movies, or there should not be. As imagined by the late Swedish journalist and author Steig Larsson, Lisbeth Salander is a pierced, tattooed, bisexual, motorcycle-riding, 21st century Sherlock Holmes, cerebral, relentless, on the …
Continue reading “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”
Posted on November 4, 2018 at 8:00 am
The New York Times asked some of the stars of the big fall movies what movies they like to watch when they’re feeling down. Two of them picked “The Lion King” but for different reasons. Interestingly, most picked movies that meant a lot to them when they were kids, suggesting that it is partly about …
Continue reading “What Movie Makes You Feel Better?”
Posted on November 3, 2018 at 8:18 am
As the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating system celebrates its 50th anniversary, it has revealed some details of its first half-century. The rating system was instituted after three decades of the famous, highly restrictive Hays Code, was no longer workable in the tumultuous 1960’s. Filmmakers and audiences wanted a wider range of material and …
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Posted on November 1, 2018 at 5:30 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, suggestive material, drug content and language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Medical issues, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
November 1, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
February 11, 2019 |
“Bohemian Rhapsody” is a just-good movie with a great performance based on the life of a once-to-a-planet musician of endless talent and magnetism and a four-octave range of unmatched clarity and suppleness. In other words, it is entertaining, if not illuminating. Indeed, it is strange that a movie about fictional rock and pop stars, the …
Continue reading “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Posted on November 1, 2018 at 5:20 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for sexual content including an assault, some language and brief drug use |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and discussion of sexuality, rape, non-explicit sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Brief drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Graphic, disturbing rape scene |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
November 2, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 28, 2019 |
“Boy Erased” is the second major feature film released in 2018 about Christian “gay conversion” facilities (the documentary “Far from the Tree” touched on gay conversion therapy). It is based on the experience of and expose by Garrard Conley, “Boy Erased” might better be called “Boy Ineradicable” because it is the story of a college …
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