Posted on June 11, 2017 at 1:56 pm
New York Times critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott have listed their favorite films of the 21st century so far, with some help from filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow, Guillermo del Toro, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins, Richard Linklater, Robert Pattinson and Michelle Williams. Like any such list/ranking, it is best seen as a conversation-starter and Netflix-queue refresher rather than …
Posted on June 9, 2017 at 4:03 pm
My review of “The Hunter’s Prayer” is at rogerebert.com. I gave it one and a half stars.
Posted on June 9, 2017 at 10:41 am
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for violence, action and scary images, and for some suggestive content and partial nudity |
| Profanity: | Some mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual humor, sexual references, some nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended wartime and fantasy violence, chases, explosions, attacks, guns, knives, murder of parent and child, plane crash, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 9, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | September 18, 2017 |
Disney has almost all of the Marvel superheroes. Warner Brothers has DC superheroes. 20th Century Fox has the Fantastic Four and perhaps someday will make a movie worthy of them. And so Universal wanted its own universe of supernatural characters. It does not have the rights to any superheroes, but it does have the monsters, …
Posted on June 9, 2017 at 10:26 am
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for war violence, language, suggestive material, and thematic elements |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and non-explicit situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and drunkenness, drug references |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Wartime violence |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 9, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | September 11, 2017 |
Devastated by the loss of a close friend, fired from a dead-end job, without any sense of worth or meaning, a young rural New Yorker enlists in the Marines and learns about honor, loyalty, and purpose, and finds unconditional love, too. What makes that familiar story less familiar in this fact-based retelling is that the …
Posted on May 19, 2017 at 7:19 pm
I got a chance to preview the new American Writers Museum in Chicago before it opened on May 16, 2017. It is enchanting, inspiring, genuinely magical. There is a special room about children’s literature, with a glorious full-wall mural by my friend, Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky. There are some artifacts, including the legendary …
