Trailer: Disenchantment
Posted on July 24, 2018 at 3:37 pm
I had a lot of fun at the Disenchantment booth at San Diego Comic-Con. It’s a new animated comedy from the people behind “The Simpsons.” Here’s the trailer:
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New from Raffi: Dog on the Floor
Posted on July 24, 2018 at 8:00 am
It’s always great news when there’s a new CD from Raffi, the beloved troubadour whose music has delighted families for decades, making him the perennial best-selling children’s entertainer. On July 27, 2018, Raffi’s 25th album will be released, with 15 new songs. Raffi, who turns 70 this summer, recorded the music in his home, inspired …
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Posted on July 19, 2018 at 5:40 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some suggestive material |
| Profanity: | Some mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and crude humor, question of paternity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: | None |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | July 20, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | October 22, 2018 |
Pretty music, pretty scenery, pretty people – here they go again, my my, and how can we resist them? Lesser songs, better singers, higher platform shoes, more romance, a horse, a goat, a boat, a romantic last-minute wedding interruption, returning cast members and a whole new group to play younger versions of the older characters. …
Blindspotting
Posted on July 19, 2018 at 5:31 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | R for language throughout, some brutal violence, sexual references and drug use |
| Profanity: | Very strong, crude, and racist language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references, some crude |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and drunkenness, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Peril and violence including policeman shooting an unarmed man |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | July 20, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | November 19, 2018 |
More than ten years ago, longtime best friends Daveed Diggs (“black-ish,” “Wonder,” Tony-winner for “Hamilton”) and spoken word poet/academic Rafael Casal began working on “Blindspotting,” inspired by their experience growing up in the uneasily gentrifying Oakland, California area long before either became successful. It took about ten years before they got the financing, and when …
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casel on “Blindspotting”
Posted on July 18, 2018 at 8:00 am
Sometimes it takes forever to get a movie made and then it arrives at exactly the right moment. Longtime best friends Daveed Diggs (“black-ish,” “Wonder,” Tony-winner for “Hamilton”) and spoken word poet/academic Rafael Casal began working on their extraordinary film, “Blindspotting,” inspired by their experience growing up in the uneasily gentrifying Oakland, California area long …
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