Posted on August 4, 2017 at 8:00 am
Rifftrax will be in theaters on August 24, 2017 to present five Doctor Whos! The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000®, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, are back on the big screen for a legendary riffing of the 1983 Doctor Who film “The Five Doctors.” Someone is taking the Doctor’s past selves out …
Posted on August 3, 2017 at 7:06 pm
CBS executives were questioned about the lack of diversity in their fall programs, with one black male lead and the rest all white males. Programming head Thom Sherman said that the network did develop shows with female leads, but none of them turned out as well as the shows starring men. Reporters noted that the …
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Posted on August 3, 2017 at 5:02 pm
D| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for violence and peril |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended peril and violence including children in peril, guns, chases, crashes, many characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 4, 2017 |
Maybe Halle Berry, who produced and stars in “Kidnap,” thought this would be her “Taken,” a big prestige star in an all-out action movie. Not so much. Instead, this is one of those movies where if anyone made a single rational decision it would be over in eight minutes, instead of the 80-some minutes that …
Posted on August 3, 2017 at 2:10 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for strong violence and pervasive language |
| Profanity: | Very strong language including racist epithets |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and brief nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Very intense and graphic violence including murder and brutal beatings, disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 4, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | December 11, 2017 |
If a newspaper is the first draft of history, perhaps it is art that conveys the truth of the past with context, nuance, and power. And so “Detroit,” Kathryn Bigelow’s story of a horrifying, tragic murder of three black men during the Detroit riots of 1967, meaningfully begins with the paintings of Jacob Lawrence documenting …
Posted on August 1, 2017 at 4:55 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and action, suggestive material and brief language |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some suggestive references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended sci-fi/action violence, guns, chases, characters injured and killed including genocide |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | July 21, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | November 21, 2017 |
Yes, the visuals and special effects in Luc Besson’s “Valerian and the City of the Thousand Planets” are next-level, dazzling, stunning, and themselves worth the price of a ticket (3D please). But let’s be honest. The best special effect in the movie is the lovely real face of Rihanna as Bubble, a shape-shifting alien our …
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