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Posted on December 6, 2017 at 4:28 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Preschool |
I am very proud to be a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, which today announced our nominees for the Critics Choice Awards. I’ll be there on January 11 when we announce them — please be sure to watch the show on the CW! FILM NOMINATIONS FOR THE 23rd ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS BEST …
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Posted on December 2, 2017 at 6:33 pm
What a treat to see a tribute to Alice Faye’s classic “You’ll Never Know” in Guillermo del Toro’s new film, “The Shape of Water.” The song was introduced by Faye in “Hello, Frisco, Hello.” The lyrics were based on a poem by a WWII war bride. It not only won the Oscar for best song …
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Posted on November 30, 2017 at 5:36 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for thematic content including some sexuality, language and smoking |
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Strong language |
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Sexual references and near-R-rated situations, adultery |
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Smoking, drinking, references to alcoholism |
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Peril and off-screen violence, references to mob killings |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
December 1, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
March 3, 2018 |
Writer/director Woody Allen continues to explore questions of fate, chance, and choice he has addressed with much more art and understanding before in “Wonder Wheel,” a dreary, dull story set in 1950’s Coney Island. Unlike the character who talks about responsibility, Allen tries to duck his own failures by having his stand-in narrator tell us …
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Posted on November 30, 2017 at 5:13 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not rated |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity, explicit sexual references and situations |
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Alcohol |
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Fictional depiction of suicide and violence, some scuffles |
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None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
December 1, 2017 |
Let’s face it. Failure is more fascinating than success. There are innumerable movies based on true stories about real people who overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles with determination, vision, and talent to accomplish extraordinary achievements in sports, the arts, and shaping public policy. Movies like “Schindler’s List” and “The Big Short” help us to understand huge, …
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Posted on November 29, 2017 at 4:06 pm
It was a great pleasure to interview actor Dan Stevens, who plays Charles Dickens in “The Man Who Invented Christmas” and the director, Bharat Nalluri. Dan Stevens shared his thoughts about A Christmas Carol: It has a lot to say about those in positions of power and wealth and influence and how they wield that …
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