New to Theaters
B +
B +
B +
New on Streaming
B +
B +
B
Posted on October 31, 2017 at 8:33 pm
Thanks to Betsy Bozdech and Jennifer Merin for inviting me to join other members of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists in responding to the Cable.TV report on children’s exposure to horror films. Here’s a slightly expanded version of what I sent them: When I was researching The Movie Mom’s Guide to Family Movies, I …
Continue reading “Women Movie Critics React to the Study About Kids and Horror Movies”
Posted on October 30, 2017 at 4:43 pm
“Wonderstruck,” based on the award-winning book by Brian Selznick, is the story of two deaf children, decades apart, who are both on their own in New York City and both end up hiding out at the Museum of Natural History. Selznick, who also wrote the screenplay, told me: The picture story is set in 1927 …
Continue reading “Millicent Simmonds of “Wonderstruck””
Posted on October 30, 2017 at 3:23 pm
As Ebertfest begins to prepare for its 20th anniversary in 2018, it has released a video from Shatterglass about last spring’s festival. It is always one of the highlights of the year. Roger Ebert’s 19th Annual Film Festival // A Retrospective Documentary from Shatterglass Studios on Vimeo.
Posted on October 26, 2017 at 5:35 pm
B
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, drugs and drug abuse |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and graphic wartime violence, suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 27, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 22, 2018 |
“Thank You for Your Service,” based on the book by David Finkel about returning servicemen and their feelings of dislocation when they try to adjust to civilian life, is so decent, respectful, sincere, and, most of all, so vitally needed that it is difficult to evaluate it as a movie. It follows in the tradition …
Continue reading “Thank You For Your Service”
Posted on October 26, 2017 at 5:30 pm
C
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality |
| Profanity: |
Strong language including racist epithets |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations including one viewed by a child |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and graphic violence including multiple murders, many grisly and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 27, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
February 5, 2018 |
“Suburbicon” is like a beautifully gift-wrapped box that turns out to be empty or a shaggy-dog story that entices you with promising details and then it is supposed to be funny that there’s no ending. A script by the Coen brothers that plays like a correctly discarded early draft of “Fargo” has been tweaked by …
Continue reading “Suburbicon”
