Posted on October 25, 2017 at 9:47 pm
We bid a sad farewell to Robert Guillaume, who has died at age 89. The deep-voiced actor of great presence performed on stage in the Broadway musical “Purlie” and became best known to audiences as Benson, the butler on “Soap,” who became so beloved by audiences and by his peers that he became the first …
Posted on October 25, 2017 at 9:30 pm
A new survey from Cable TV has some surprising (and scary) results. The average age at which our survey respondents said they watched their first horror film was 7.2 years old. If that average held true when expanded to the full population, that would mean that the average American kid has seen a horror movie …
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Posted on October 20, 2017 at 1:08 pm
I loved seeing Herschel Bernardi play Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof” in the 1960’s and it was a great pleasure to speak to his son, Michael, who played the role in the Broadway revival. He also appears in a brief but very compelling role in “Marshall,” the film about one of Thurgood Marshall’s early …
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Posted on October 19, 2017 at 5:50 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material including some bloody medical images |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and drunkenness, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Severe illness, medical situations with some graphic images, issue of assisted death |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 20, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | January 1, 2018 |
“Plucky or pitiful?” a man asks his wife as they drive toward a grand British estate to beg for funding to provide wheelchairs for the severely disabled. They meet with a crusty old aristocrat (Diana Rigg, always a treasure) who says that normally she has no trouble turning people down but she feels she must …
Posted on October 19, 2017 at 5:19 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for thematic content, some sexual references, language and drug material |
| Profanity: | Some strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references, some crude, and non-explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, drugs, substance abuse |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended peril and violence, many characters killed, snake bite |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 20, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | February 5, 2018 |
They literally fight fire with fire. Unlike “structure fires,” burning buildings doused with water, wildfires in non-residential areas are contained by setting a line of fire to stop them from spreading. Sometimes it does not work. “Only the Brave” is the story of the Granite Mountain hotshots, the “alpha” team of 19 Arizona firefighters who …
