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Posted on June 14, 2018 at 5:49 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for action sequences and some brief mild language |
| Profanity: |
Schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended action/superhero peril and violence, gun, sad (offscreen) murder of parent |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 15, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
November 5, 2018 |
Brad Bird knows that all families are pretty incredible, and his movies about the family of superheroes reminds us that we know it, too. The writer/director of “The Incredibles” and this sequel, “Incredibles 2” (there’s a lot going on, so this title is streamlined and has no room for an extraneous “the”) took 14 years …
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Posted on June 14, 2018 at 5:46 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language throughout, crude sexual content, drug use and brief nudity |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Crude sexual humor, sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended comic peril and violence, medical issues |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 15, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
August 27, 2018 |
One of the most reliably funny situations in literature is adults taking on with utmost seriousness the kinds of concerns generally left to children. The bigger the gap between the actual and perceived stakes, the funnier it gets. One of my favorite P.G. Wodehouse stories, “The Purity of the Turf,” is a classic example. “Tag” …
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Posted on June 14, 2018 at 8:00 am
It was truly an honor to get a chance to interview Jules Feiffer, who wrote the critically acclaimed “Carnal Knowledge,” a movie that was the subject of a Supreme Court case about whether it was obscene (they ruled that it was not). He also illustrated one of my favorite books, The Phantom Tollbooth, wrote a …
Continue reading “Interview: Jules Feiffer on “Bernard and Huey.””
Posted on June 14, 2018 at 7:55 am
From space to skates. From doctors in a remote New Mexico town to toddlers competing in a beauty contest in Brazil to Brooklyn teenagers trying to get into college and queer and trans athletes trying to get a chance to compete and politicians trying to fight the forces undermining democracy. There is no superhero blockbuster, …
Continue reading “AFI Docs 2018 — You Can’t Make This Stuff Up”
Posted on June 13, 2018 at 6:20 pm
Many thanks to the always-great Kristen Lopez for inviting me on her classic films podcast to talk about “Gilda” and the star who made her iconic, Rita Hayworth.
