Some of my All-Time Favorite Classic Christmas Movie Moments
Posted on December 24, 2017 at 8:00 am
For me, Christmas season highlight always include some movie classics like these. How many of these movies can you name?
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The Year in Movies from The Credits
Posted on December 22, 2017 at 6:01 pm
One of my favorite movie sites is MPAA’s The Credits, and I am always honored when they let me write for them. I love their tribute to 2017 in film — take a look!
Wesley Lovell on Women at the Oscars
Posted on December 22, 2017 at 12:52 pm
Critic and @oscarguy Wesley Lovell has a thoughtful assessment of women at the Oscars on CinemaSight. While the most-nominated and most-won individuals include women (costume designers Edith Head, Irene Sharaff, Catherine Martin, and Colleen Atwood, actors Meryl Streep, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn, the overall statistics are grim: In Oscar history, there have been 7,177 …
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Posted on December 21, 2017 at 5:38 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for adventure action, suggestive content and some language |
| Profanity: | Some schoolyard language, b-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Potty humor, references to body parts and functions, kisses |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol, drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended action/fantasy-style peril and violence, characters injured, snakes, guns, fights, some disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 22, 2017 |
There has never been a more charming movie action hero than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, whose easy confidence is highlighted in a scene from the trailer for “Furious 7,” when his character gets out of a hospital bed, flexes his muscle to shatter the cast that covers his entire arm, and says meaningfully, “Daddy’s got …
Pitch Perfect 3
Posted on December 21, 2017 at 5:32 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, language and some action |
| Profanity: | Some strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and crude humor, potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Comic/action violence, peril, explosions, fire |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 22, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | March 19, 2018 |
When a franchise runs out of ideas, it’s time to stop, even if the characters and music are still delightful. When a franchise descends to having its own characters wink at the audience with jokes about how it’s run out of ideas, and resorts to just (literally) setting things on fire, not once but twice …