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Halloween Movies for Families 2024!

Halloween Movies for Families 2024!

Posted on October 28, 2024 at 9:27 pm

Happy Halloween! Halloween gives kids a thrilling opportunity to act out their dreams and pretend to be characters with great power. But it can also be scary and even overwhelming for the littlest trick-or-treaters. An introduction to the holiday with videos from trusted friends can help make them feel comfortable and excited about even the …

Juror #2

Juror #2

Posted on October 25, 2024 at 5:46 pm

B-
Lowest Recommended Age: High School
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for PG-13 for some violent images and strong language
Profanity: Some strong language
Nudity/ Sex: None
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking, drunkenness, and alcoholism
Violence/ Scariness: Murder trial, graphic and disturbing descriptions and images of dead body
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: November 1, 2024

“Juror #2,” directed by Clint Eastwood, has a preposterous premise and a first-rate cast valiantly trying to make it seem less preposterous. Nicholas Hoult plays Justin, a teacher whose wife Allison (Zoey Deutch) is nearing the end of a high-risk pregnancy. Justin has just been called for jury duty. He tries to get out of …

Venom: The Last Dance

Venom: The Last Dance

Posted on October 24, 2024 at 2:00 pm

B-
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 intense sequences of violence and action, bloody images and strong language
Profanity: Very strong language for a PG-13
Nudity/ Sex: None
Violence/ Scariness: Extended comic-book action-style peril and violence, characters injured and killed, some disturbing and graphic images, sad death
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: October 25, 2024

Now that Tom Hardy has taken over Venom the way the comic-book outer-space symbiote took over journalist Eddie Brock, the one-time Spider-Man universe super-villain is now…the good guy? Hardy co-wrote and co-produced this final (maybe final-ish?) chapter, its foundation is still comic-book, but its heart is a goofy buddy-movie, with Eddie (Hardy) happy to call …

We Live in Time

We Live in Time

Posted on October 17, 2024 at 5:28 pm

B
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
Profanity: Rated R for language, sexuality, and nudity
Nudity/ Sex: Nudity, explicit sexual references and situations
Alcohol/ Drugs: Alcohol
Violence/ Scariness: Cancer and cancer treatment, sad death of a parent, car accident with injuries
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: October 18, 2024

“We Live in Time” tries so hard to be a better movie that it seems churlish to point out that it just isn’t. The movie goes back and forth between three different time periods in the relationship of guy with soulful eyes and a boring job with a cereal company Tobias (Andrew Garfield) and successful …

The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot

Posted on September 25, 2024 at 5:31 pm

B +
Lowest Recommended Age: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
MPAA Rating: Rated PG for thematic elements, action, and peril
Profanity: Some schoolyard language
Nudity/ Sex: None
Alcohol/ Drugs: None
Violence/ Scariness: Sci-ff/cartoon style violence, shooting, off-screen deaths including death of a parent and a mentor
Diversity Issues: A theme of the movie
Date Released to Theaters: September 26, 2024

A plane delivering high-tech equipment flies into a storm and a crate falls out, landing on an island inhabited only by animals. Inside the crate is a super-intelligent, ultra-capable robot programmed to complete any task a human might require. The contrast between the natural world of the plants and animals and the metal and programming …