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Posted on October 31, 2018 at 8:04 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some mild peril |
| Profanity: |
Some mild languages |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild double entendres |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some peril and violence, swords, falls, no one hurt, characters grieving sad death of parent |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
November 2, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 28, 2019 |
“The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” is a beautiful empty mess of a movie. The production design by Guy Hendrix Dyas and costumes by Jenny Beavan are genuinely enchanting. Disney is a modern-day Medici, giving work to the world’s top artisans and the look of the film is gorgeously imagined. But boy, it’s like a …
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Posted on October 31, 2018 at 12:44 pm
Rogerebert.com critics list their favorite underrated scary movies for Halloween. Check them out, especially my choice, Coherence.
Posted on October 28, 2018 at 4:27 pm
James R. Hansen wrote the book that inspired “First Man,” the new Ryan Gosling movie about Neil Amstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, and I had the great pleasure of talking to him about the time he spent with Armstrong and his family, what he learned from the biodata NASA kept on …
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Posted on October 25, 2018 at 5:44 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence and some language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief crude reference |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extensive military action, peril, and violence, guns, explosions, many characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 26, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 27, 2019 |
Submarines provide instant drama because they are as closed off from the rest of the world as it is possible to be in the era of instant global communications. The officers have to make life and death decisions not only for themselves but sometimes for the whole world with limited information and ability to get …
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Posted on October 25, 2018 at 5:23 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language including some sexual references, and brief drug use |
| Profanity: |
Pervasive strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and drug abuse |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense emotional confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 26, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
February 18, 2019 |
It is important to note that it is not Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who is asking for forgiveness in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” It is the acerbically witty Dorothy Parker, author of a jaunty poem about the downsides of the various options for committing suicide that ends “You might as well live.” Okay, it …
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