Posted on April 25, 2017 at 3:02 pm
Tina Fey and Robert Carlock are the producers of “Great News,” from their “30 Rock” colleague Tracey Wigfield. It’s the story of a television news producer and her mother, who becomes an intern on her show. And it’s adorable. Here Wigfield and her real mother talk to Briga Heelan and Andrea Martin, who play versions …
Posted on April 25, 2017 at 10:01 am
Disney’s “The Descendants” was an immediate smash, with one of the biggest audiences ever for a cable movie on its premiere and over 100 million viewers since then. “High School Musical’s” Kenny Ortega was behind the smart and engaging story of the children of some of Disney’s most popular characters, including good guys like Belle …
Posted on April 23, 2017 at 9:48 pm
Here’s the Ebertfest panel on “The Handmaiden” that I moderated. (Sorry there’s a problem with the sound at first — skip ahead about five minutes and it should be all right.
Posted on April 20, 2017 at 5:45 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for thematic material including war atrocities, violence and disturbing images, and some sexuality |
| Profanity: | Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Non-explicit sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Intense and prolonged peril and violence including war and genocide, some graphic and disturbing images, characters injured and killed, suicide, execution |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | April 21, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | July 17, 2017 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B0719XBL75 |
The massacre was so monumental, the attempt to wipe out an entire culture and ethnicity so savage, that a new word had to be invented to describe it. The word was “genocide,” and while it would be applied many times over the course of the 20th century, it was created to describe the murder of …
Posted on April 20, 2017 at 5:34 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, brief strong language and some nudity |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some native nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Peril and violence including WWI battles and attacks by indigenous people |
| Diversity Issues: | Class, race, and culture issues a theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | April 21, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: | July 10, 2017 |
From the early 19th to the early 20th century, the British Empire exemplified a spirit of adventure, devotion to duty, and confidence bordering on hubris that led to extraordinary achievements like the Oxford English Dictionary and the arrogant imposition of colonialism around the world. All of that is in this true story of Percy Fawcett, …
