Posted on March 17, 2017 at 3:26 pm
This week’s big release is Disney’s live action remake of “Beauty and the Beast” with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens. The animated Disney version is a classic, but there are some other versions worth watching as well. The classic fairy tale characters have been played by: Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel (French version) Rebecca de …
Posted on March 17, 2017 at 8:00 am
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with movies starring some of the greatest stars in movie history. If you haven’t seen all of these, you deserve a pinch! 1. Maureen O’Hara — her fiery red hair was made for technicolor and she was ideally cast opposite John Wayne in films like “The Quiet Man” and “McLintock.” I …
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Posted on March 16, 2017 at 5:55 pm
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Preschool |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for some action, violence, peril and frightening images |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Kiss |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Fairy tale peril and violence, wolves, mob, guns |
| Diversity Issues: | Very subtle suggestion that a character might be gay, tolerance a metaphorical theme of the film |
| Date Released to Theaters: | March 17, 2017 |
Disney’s live action remake of one of its most beloved animated fairy tales is every bit as enchanting as we could hope, gently updating and expanding the story to give the characters more depth and appeal and filling it with movie magic. In a prologue, we see that the Beast was once a handsome but …
Posted on March 16, 2017 at 3:39 pm
Vanity Fair pays tribute to MAD’s Al Jaffe, creator of the iconic “fold-in” and the snarky “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,” noting that he is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest-running cartoonist. I was happy to see that he told one of my favorite stories, about one of the legendary trips …
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Posted on March 16, 2017 at 3:16 pm
Far from scientific, but still fun to read about: A survey, conducted just after the Oscars, collected responses to a single, fill-in-the-blank question from more than 10,500 movie watchers spanning five different languages in the UK, Europe, Japan, and the U.S., which were then machine translated and analyzed in minutes by OdinText, a text analytics …
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