Posted on October 25, 2018 at 8:00 am
Halloween gives kids a thrilling opportunity to act out their dreams and pretend to be characters with great power. But it can also be scary and even overwhelming for the littlest trick-or-treaters. An introduction to the holiday with videos from trusted friends can help make them feel comfortable and excited about even the spookier aspects …
Posted on October 23, 2018 at 7:35 am
My friends at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists share their thoughts on making sure that children see movies that are fun-scary, not scary-scary at Halloween — and how to help them if they do get too scared. Here’s what I wrote: I’m always sorry when kids are upset by what they see, especially when …
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Posted on October 18, 2018 at 5:18 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for drug content throughout, language, and brief sexual material |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual situation and nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Extended and explicit substance abuse |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Tense family confrontations, peril, serious medical issues |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 19, 2018 |
Timothee Chalamet gives one of the most sensitive and compelling performances of the year in “Beautiful Boy,” based on the books by journalist David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction) and his son Nic Sheff (Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines). The story is a conventional tale of a prodigal son almost …
Posted on October 18, 2018 at 1:31 pm
Michael Cavna, who covers comics and animation for the Washington Post, has a lovely essay about a television classic, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” He writes about “Linus’s bewitchingly liquid-violet skies and Snoopy’s clouds of fantastical peril, as autumnal tints pop from the trees and leaves” and the use of camera movement to give …
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Posted on October 15, 2018 at 8:00 am
Common is a successful musician and won an Oscar for the song he co-wrote with John Legend for “Selma.” But we are seeing him more often on screen as an actor, most recently in four movies out this fall that could not be more different. In The Hate U Give Common plays the uncle of …
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