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Posted on March 28, 2018 at 4:00 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action violence, bloody images, some suggestive material, partial nudity and language |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language, one f-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief crude humor, some suggestive material, kiss |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended sci-fi/fantasy peril and violence, real and virtual weapons, chases, and explosions, arson, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 30, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
July 23, 2018 |
You know that one perfect high note in the A-Ha song, “Take on Me?” The goosebumpy bliss of it? “Ready Player One,” with endless callbacks to the era of A-Ha, is that note as a movie, set in the future, in love with the past, and uncannily right of this exact moment. There could be …
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Posted on March 26, 2018 at 1:50 pm
Ernest Cline’s book, Ready Player One, takes place in the future but its main character is as enmeshed in the past as he is in the video game puzzle created by the mysterious man who is something between Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and whoever invented Grand Theft Auto. The book and movie are …
Continue reading “The First of What Will Probably Be Many “Ready Player One” Reference Guides”
Posted on March 26, 2018 at 8:20 am
I am honored once again to participate in Rogerebert.com’s annual women writers week, and will post a link when my review of Andie MacDowell’s “Love After Love” is published. Be sure to read the opening comments from Chaz Ebert, explaining the origins of this tradition five years ago and how it seems especially apt and …
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Posted on March 22, 2018 at 5:33 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and some violent images |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
References to dogs mating and having puppies |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Dog and human peril and violence, murder, sad death of parents, child injured badly, medical procedures, starvation and disease, skeletons, some disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Issue of white American as the only one who takes on the villain |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 23, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
July 16, 2018 |
Say the title out loud. “Isle of Dogs” = “I love dogs,” get it? Even a three-word title of a Wes Anderson movie is a bit of a puzzle box. Anderson is the Joseph Cornell of filmmakers, with every item on screen and even those tucked away and not seen by the audience, every note …
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Posted on March 22, 2018 at 5:06 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and some language |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief crude jokes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended peril and violence with disturbing images, giant robots, alien monsters, explosions, mass destruction, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 23, 2018 |
I know you’re all eager to hear whether you will understand this movie if you haven’t seen (or, more likely, saw and forgot) the first one. Here is my answer: you won’t understand this film even if you did see and remember the first one and it just doesn’t matter. The first one was about …
Continue reading “Pacific Rim Uprising”
