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Posted on May 8, 2025 at 5:23 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some violence, bloody images and suggestive material |
| Profanity: |
Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references, kissing, sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sword fight, attempted suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 9, 2025 |
As he did with “Spinning Gold,” based on his father’s career in music, writer/director Timothy Scott Bogart has Temu-ed a great story and it is barely watchable. This time, it is Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” which he has renamed “Juliet & Romeo,” made some changes to the characters and storyline, reworked the dialogue so instead …
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Posted on May 3, 2025 at 12:07 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not rated |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol, drug references |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sad deaths |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 3, 2025 |
Swamp Dogg is not the typical musician and this is not the typical documentary about a musician. The movie, directed by three people: Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson, and David McMurry, and written by four: Andrew Broder, Isaac Gale, Paul Lovelace, and Ryan Olson. The mosaic quality of film, messy, imaginative, zig-zaggy, fits the subject. The off-beat title …
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Posted on May 1, 2025 at 2:06 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for strong violence, language, thematic elements, and some suggestive and drug references |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drug references |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Non-stop action-style peril and violence, child is killed, automatic weapons, military weapons, chases, explosions, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, mental illness sympathetically portrayed |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 2, 2025 |
I liked “Thunderbolts* (note the asterisk) a lot, but it will be divisive. Some people don’t want to delve into the mental health struggles of anyone, including a superhero or supervillain. They’re just there for the punches, powers, explosions, and special effects. But as I watched the film, I thought about how many superheroes experienced …
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Posted on April 17, 2025 at 5:16 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language, some sexual material, and nudity |
| Profanity: |
Constant f-words, strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-explicit sexual situation, brief nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Family issues |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
April 18, 2025 |
“The Wedding Banquet,” more an adaptation than a direct remake of the Ang Lee film of the same name, may appear from the marketing to be a comedy, even an outright farce. But it is a bittersweet, tender-hearted story about the families we are born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Of course, …
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Posted on April 10, 2025 at 5:58 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not rated |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references, infidelity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
A scuffle, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
April 11, 2025 |
“The Italians” is a messy movie about a messy family. It begins as farce and ends as, well, no spoilers but it ends as something more serious. Director Michelle Danner stars as Angelina, a middle-aged mother of Nico (Matthew Daddario) and wife of Vincenzo (Rob Estes). She is very Italian. Exaggeratedly Italian. Meaning that she …
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