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Contest: Win The Queen of Katwe

Contest: Win The Queen of Katwe

Posted on February 17, 2017 at 9:15 am

  You can win a DVD/Blu-Ray of one of the best family movies of 2016, “The Queen of Katwe,” based on the true story of a girl from the poorest part of Uganda who became an international chess champion. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo. Send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with Queen in …

A Cure for Wellness

A Cure for Wellness

Posted on February 16, 2017 at 5:54 pm

B-
Lowest Recommended Age: Preschool
MPAA Rating: Rate R for disturbing violent content and images, sexual content including an assault, graphic nudity, and language
Profanity: Very strong and crude language
Nudity/ Sex: Nudity, sexual assault, incest
Alcohol/ Drugs: Alcohol
Violence/ Scariness: Intense, graphic, and extensive peril and violence with many disturbing and graphic images, sexual assault, torture

There’s jump out at you scary. And there’s something’s coming at me scary. And then there’s the slow, inexorable dread that builds inside you, and that is what director/co-writer Gore Verbinski is going for with “A Cure for Wellness.” The unsettling through-the-looking-glass idea starts with the title itself. Isn’t wellness what a cure is supposed …

Fist Fight

Fist Fight

Posted on February 16, 2017 at 5:40 pm

C
Lowest Recommended Age: Preschool
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language throughout, sexual content/nudity and drug material
Profanity: Extremely strong and crude language used by adults, teens, and a child
Nudity/ Sex: Explicit sexual references, including references to teacher-student sex
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drugs and drug dealing by teenager
Violence/ Scariness: Extended comic peril and violence
Diversity Issues: Diverse characters
Date Released to Theaters: February 17, 2017

Maybe it’s just here in Washington D.C., but when I saw “Fist Fight,” the biggest laugh from the audience was seeing the name of the executive producer, Steve Mnuchin, who had just been sworn in as the Trump administration’s Secretary of the Treasury. The timing of the movie, with its comic portrayal of an underfunded …