Posted on June 18, 2017 at 4:51 pm
Happy Father’s Day! And extra Father’s Day love to the two great dads in my life, my father and my husband. These are some of my favorite movie dads. Give the dad in your life an extra hug and ask who his favorite movie father is! And don’t forget to get a FREE copy of …
Posted on June 18, 2017 at 3:45 pm
Emily V. Gordon wants you to know that her father did not cheat on her mother. You might think that he did because in the movie Gordon wrote with her husband, Kumail Nanjiani, about their romance, movie Emily’s father, played by Ray Romano, confesses that he had an affair. But Gordon and Nanjiani explained in …
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Posted on June 17, 2017 at 6:00 am
In honor of Father’s Day, my eBook, 50 Must-See Movies: Fathers is FREE through Father’s Day, June 19, 2016. What do “Wall Street” and the “Star Wars” saga and, seemingly, about half the movies ever made have in common? They are about fathers. In “Wall Street,” Charlie Sheen plays the ambitious Bud, who respects the integrity …
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Posted on June 16, 2017 at 2:56 am
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for thematic elements including violent images and language |
| Profanity: | Some strong and bigoted language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | References to and depictions of historical civil unrest, violence, and murder |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 17, 2017 |
First thing, I’m going to ask you to overlook two obvious problems with this film. The first is the awful title, pretentious and overused. The second is the film’s complete distortion of the real-life facts and details in favor of a condensed and heightened portrayal that puts decades of delicate negotiations into one car ride. …
Posted on June 15, 2017 at 5:37 pm
D| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and brief strong language |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and drunkenness, drug reference |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Theme of child sexual abuse, attempted murder, suicide, medical issues, sad death, peril |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 17, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | October 2, 2017 |
I’ve got a pretty high tolerance for movies, even syrupy ones, about super-gifted kids and am generally willing to give them some leeway as metaphor or fairy tale. So I’m okay with “August Rush,” “Pay it Forward,” “A Monster Calls,” etc. But “The Book of Henry” crosses the line from syrupy to smarmy, and where …
