Posted on June 29, 2018 at 11:17 am
Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, and Bill Nighy star in “The Bookshop,” based on the best-seller by Penelope Fitzgerald. The movie comes to US theaters August 24, 2018.
Posted on June 28, 2018 at 5:58 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for suggestive material, language and brief nudity |
| Profanity: | Some strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Brief comic nudity (bare butt), sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Theme of aging, medical issues |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 29, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | September 24, 2018 |
There are a lot of movies based on books and plays, and many movies based on songs and video games. And now, apparently, we’ve got a movie based on a television commercial. “Uncle Drew” is inspired by a 2012 series of Pepsi ads written and directed by and featuring real-life NBA player and science skeptic …
Posted on June 28, 2018 at 5:54 pm
C| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for strong violence, bloody images, and language |
| Profanity: | Constant very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drug dealing |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extensive and intense peril and violence involving children, teens, and adults, terrorism, guns, chases, explosions, grisly and disturbing images, many characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 29, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | October 1, 2018 |
The first Sicario movie had stunning cinematography by Roger Deakins, a character with integrity and courage, in a performance of equal integrity and courage from Emily Blunt, to bring us into the complex, layered story of moral quagmires around drug smuggling. This sequel, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” has none of that. While the first …
Posted on June 28, 2018 at 5:20 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for thematic material throughout |
| Profanity: | Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Pharmaceuticals |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Peril, injury, some disturbing images, family issues, military-related PTSD |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 29, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | October 1, 2018 |
Author Peter Rock’s novel My Abandonment was inspired by a news story reporting that a father and daughter were living off the grid but in plain sight, camping out in a Portland, Oregon public park. Writer/director Debra Granik (“Winter’s Bone”) has now adapted the story in a quiet wonder of a film called “Leave No …
Posted on June 28, 2018 at 7:03 am
Steve Carell stars in “Welcome to Marwen,” based on the true story of an artist who was severely disabled after being beaten by American Nazis. He created a world in his back yard to help him heal. The extraordinary true story is told in the documentary Marwencol. There is also a book, Welcome to Marwencol.
