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Posted on April 11, 2018 at 4:00 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, action and destruction, brief language, and crude gestures |
| Profanity: |
About a dozen bad words |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief crude humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended peril and action-style violence with chases, explosions, guns, bombs, monsters, many human and animal characters injured and killed, some graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
April 13, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
July 16, 2018 |
Pay attention, my friends, this one is a little bit tricky. In his last movie, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson played an avatar in a movie about a video game. In Rampage, he plays a human in a movie based on a video game, though in the video game, big in arcades in the 1980’s, it …
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Posted on April 11, 2018 at 8:22 am
Two April movies feature ASL (American Sign Language), the beautiful, complex language based on hands, gestures, and facial expressions that is used by Deaf and non-speaking people in America and English-speaking Canada. “A Quiet Place” is about a family trying to survive in a world overrun with vicious blind animals who attack by using their …
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Posted on April 10, 2018 at 3:22 pm
We’ve seen so many awful stories about the way that female characters are described in movie scripts that it was a real relief and pleasure to read Vulture’s list of the way that fifty great characters were first imagined and described by their screenwriters. There’s a whole extra level of delight in getting to see …
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Posted on April 9, 2018 at 9:08 am
I love movie musicals and I especially love the movie musicals of the studio era, with stars like Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Rita Hayworth, Debbie Reynolds, and Bob Fosse. Samantha Ladwig has put together a terrific list of 25 of the all-time best movie musicals, all highly recommended. I’d also add: “Bells …
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Posted on April 9, 2018 at 8:04 am
Coming April 20, 2018 in theaters and on Netflix: “Kodachrome” An estranged father and son make a pilgrimage to the last place that can develop rolls of Kodachrome film on this movie starring Ed Harris, Elizabeth Olson, and Jason Sudeikis, inspired by a true story.
