Posted on August 31, 2024 at 10:59 pm
On Labor Day we pay tribute to workers, especially those who have worked for better conditions for everyone. These movies can help us understand their challenges and their contributions. Last year, the writers and actors in Hollywood were on strike. This year, it’s the video game companies whose performers are striking. Some movies about labor …
Posted on August 22, 2024 at 6:31 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated Rated R for language and some sexual references |
| Profanity: | Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references, some crude and explicit, sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and drunkenness, reference to alcoholism |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 23, 2024 |
We like to pretend otherwise, but humans are very messy. Indeed, that is the reason we love stories; they give us reassurance that in the midst of all the uncertainty, all the mistakes, all the fear, there is some kind of pattern and some kind of meaning. I often quote writer/director Joseph Mankiewicz (“All About …
Posted on August 22, 2024 at 6:01 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for adult themes, as well as strong language including racial slurs |
| Profanity: | Strong and bigoted language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situations, adultery, strip club, abuse, teen pregnancy |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and acoholism |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Peril and violence, characters murdered including a child, very sad deaths, domestic abuse |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 23, 2024 |
Melodrama gets a bad rap. It is often associated with exaggerated characters and situations. But life has a tendency to be melodramatic, and a story like “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can Eat” told in an unabashedly heartfelt fashion with a screenplay by (under a pseudonym) Gina Prince-Bythewood and director Tina Mabry, putting the melodrama in …
Posted on August 22, 2024 at 6:56 am
Many thanks to Rachel for a wonderful conversation!
Posted on August 15, 2024 at 9:56 am
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: | Extensive very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Constant action-style peril and violence, characters injured and killed, some disturbing and graphic images |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 15, 2024 |
My biggest complaint about “Jackpot!” is that there is no possible reason this crazy, don’t- think-just-laugh, essence of summer silliness, action comedy should be straight to streaming. We should be coming from the hot air into the air-conditioned theater, grabbing a bucket of popcorn, and joining an audience that is all there to laugh together. …
