Posted on March 20, 2018 at 1:43 pm
The gentle lessons of Mr. Rogers are timeless. I am really looking forward to this documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” It will be in theaters June 8, 2018. And Tom Hanks stars as Fred Rogers in an upcoming feature film.
Posted on March 15, 2018 at 5:15 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual references, language and teen partying |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Theme of a gay teen coming out, kisses, brief crude humorous sexual reference |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Teen drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Tense family situations |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | March 16, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | June 11, 2018 |
If you are scrolling through Netflix you may run across movies like 2000’s The Truth About Jane, where family or friends discover that someone is gay, get upset, try to deny it or force the gay person into therapy, and then learn in time for a big happy ending at a Pride parade that love …
Posted on March 15, 2018 at 5:03 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, and for some language |
| Profanity: | Some strong language (s-words, one mouthed f-word) |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended peril and violence, chases, guns, fights, explosions, many characters injured and killed, some graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | March 16, 2018 |
A video game needs just enough narrative to add some stakes to the challenges. We care more about getting the avatar from A to B if there is a reason — a treasure, escaping the bad guys, revenge. And the action scenes need just enough complexity to hold our interest. The “reason” equivalent is our …
Posted on March 15, 2018 at 2:48 pm
My friend and fellow critic John Hanlon spoke to Catherine Hand, who decided when she read A Wrinkle in Time at age 10 that she wanted to make it into a movie and has devoted her life to that one goal. Perhaps the most remarkable part of the story is that she actually did get …
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Posted on March 15, 2018 at 2:29 pm
“The Death of Stalin,” based on the graphic novel by Fabien Nury, is a scorching satire about the flurry for succession following the unexpected totalitarian leader of the Soviet Union. For rogerebert.com I spoke to co-writer/director Armando Iannuci about the parallels between this film and his HBO series, “Veep,” about the accents of this actors …
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