Clip: Dan Stevens Plays Charles Dickens “The Man Who Invented Christmas”
Posted on November 10, 2017 at 6:00 am
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Last Flag Flying
Posted on November 9, 2017 at 9:28 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language throughout including some sexual references |
| Profanity: | Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references, some crude, including prostitution |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and alcohol abuse, smoking, references to drug abuse |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Themes of military service in wartime, sad deaths offscreen |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | November 10, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | January 29, 2018 |
Three of the best actors in the world give immense depth and humanity to characters who might so easily have been caricatures in “Last Flag Flying,” about three veterans on a sad personal mission. It’s got a backstory that might be worth a movie of its own. “The Last Detail,” based on the book by …
Murder on the Orient Express
Posted on November 9, 2017 at 5:54 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for violence and thematic elements |
| Profanity: | Some mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Mild |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Plot concerns a murder, references to kidnapping and murder of a child, suicide, miscarriage, gun, knife, scuffle |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters, racism is raised as an issue |
| Date Released to Theaters: | November 10, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | February 27, 2018 |
One of Agatha Christie’s most beloved mysteries has returned to the screen with another all-star remake of “Murder on the Orient Express,” this time starring Sir Kenneth Branagh, who also directed, as the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It does not have the lush glamour of the 1974 original, directed by Sidney Lumet, and the …
Martha Raddatz on National Geographic’s “The Long Road Home”
Posted on November 9, 2017 at 4:58 pm
National Geographic’s new series “The Long Road Home” is based on the best-selling book by journalist Martha Raddatz about soldiers sent to Iraq on a peacekeeping mission in 2004 who were ambushed on a day that came to be known as “Black Sunday.” The series is powerful, inspiring, and deeply moving as it lets us …
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11/8/16 — A Documentary About Election Day 2016
Posted on November 8, 2017 at 8:47 pm
A year ago today, film crews across the country followed Americans as they voted and worked to get others to vote, as they wrote the news and watched the news, as they explained what issues mattered most to them and why, and as they participated in our quadrennial, Constitutionally-mandated Presidential election process. Pretty much everyone, …
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