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Posted on November 20, 2024 at 6:25 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong bloody violence |
| Profanity: |
Fierce language |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended, intense, and graphic violence, swords, animal attacks, characters injured and killed, disturbing images |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
November 22, 2024 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 22, 2025 |
“Gladiator II” looks magnificent. Denzel Washington effortlessly steals every scene he is in and all but winks at us to show how much he is enjoying it. But the script is weak and too repetitive , the movie is too long, and the fight scenes, no matter how staged, just get numbing after a while. …
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Posted on November 19, 2024 at 1:47 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for strong language, violent content, some suggestive references and smoking |
| Profanity: |
Strong language including many uses of the n-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some crude references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense emotional confrontations, recollections of enslavement and abuse, supernatural horror |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie, disabled character |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
November 22, 2024 |
August Wilson wrote a play for each of the decades of the 20th century, all set in Pittsburgh and all exploring themes of race, family, and generational trauma. Denzel Washington, who starred in “Fences” on Broadway and directed and starred in the 2106 film that featured Viola Davis in her Oscar-winning role and produced “Ma …
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Posted on November 14, 2024 at 12:29 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for ction, some violence, and language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended action-style peril and violence, scary monsters |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
November 15, 2024 |
The “Jumanji” team has not managed to match the same mixture of fantasy and heart, but Christmas spirit boosts their latest production to the level of solid family entertainment. Director Jake Kasden and star Dwayne Johnson have managed to turn the saga of the North Pole’s most beloved character into an action film, with Santa …
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Posted on November 12, 2024 at 5:46 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language throughout and some drug use |
| Profanity: |
Constant strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
References to the Holocaust, attempted suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
November 15, 2024 |
Jesse Eisenberg wrote, directed, and stars in “A Real Pain” but gave the showiest role to Kieran Culkin, who gives one of the best performances of the year. Eisenberg, a careful writer with an excellent ear for what people say, and the spaces left by what they don’t say, gives the film a title with …
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Posted on November 11, 2024 at 12:03 am
To honor our veterans, John Holway’s oral history ebook, Bloody Ground: Black Rifles in Korea, is available at no cost from November 11-15. Korea is “the forgotten war.” But to those who fought in it, it was the “unforgettable war.” If the names of all those killed were put on a wall, it would be …
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