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Posted on September 21, 2017 at 9:53 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and partial nudity |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situation, issues of coming out |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, cigarettes |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
None |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 22, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 1, 2018 |
“You’ve come a long way, baby!” was the 1970’s slogan for a cigarette for women. Virginia Slims were marketed as a badge of liberation and sophistication. They had a woman’s slightly naughty-sounding name and a word with a lot of appeal to female consumers (and a suggestion that they would aid in keeping weight down). …
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Posted on September 21, 2017 at 7:15 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some mild action and rude humor |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended fantasy/cartoon peril and violence, mayhem but no one seriously injured or killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 22, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
December 18, 2017 |
It’s colorful and entertaining, but it does not come close to its hilariously meta predecessors, “The LEGO Movie” and “LEGO Batman.” It does not draw from as rich a cultural vein as the first two and we have become accustomed to the once-astonishingly meticulous and mischievous use of the LEGO bricks and people. Some children …
Continue reading “The LEGO Ninjago Movie”
Posted on September 21, 2017 at 5:30 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language throughout, some graphic injury images, and brief sexuality/nudity |
| Profanity: |
Constant very strong language, some crude |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity, sexual references and situation |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Drinking and drunkenness |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 22, 2017 |
“Stronger.” As in the “Boston Strong” motto that the city claimed and earned following the terrible bombing at the finish line of one of the city’s most cherished annual events, the Boston Marathon. And “stronger” as in what that which does not defeat you makes you. “Stronger” is the real-life story of a man who …
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Posted on September 21, 2017 at 2:54 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for sequences of strong violence, drug content, language throughout and some sexual material |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and explicit situations, some crude, some graphic |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness, drugs and drug dealing |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extensive, very graphic peril and violence with many characters injured and killed, sad deaths, disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 22, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
December 11, 2017 |
The ultra-elite and impeccably tailered Kingsmen are back, well, a couple of them, in this stylish and slightly less transgressive sequel from writer/director Matthew Vaughn, based on the graphic novels by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons. A couple of stunning action sequences, a delicious villain named Poppy (Julianne Moore), and Elton John(!) make it a …
Continue reading “Kingsman: The Golden Circle”
Posted on September 21, 2017 at 1:29 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not rated |
| Profanity: |
Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol, drunknenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sad death, family troubles |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 29, 2017 |
Our Souls at Night was the last novel written by best-selling author Kent Haruf, published after his death, and it has an elegiac quality. The film, the fourth pairing of Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and the first in 38 years, has a rare quality in film, quiet grace. Movies love to tell us the …
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