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Posted on August 8, 2024 at 5:30 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for domestic violence, sexual content and some strong language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, attempted sexual assault, suggested sexual assault |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Domestic violence is frankly but discreetly portrayed, some serious injuries |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 9, 2024 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
December 3, 2024 |
For the handful of people who do not know this, It Ends With Us is a wildly popular book by Colleen Hoover, a social worker who began her career as an author by self-publishing. She was one of the early BookTok success stories, and has now published more than 20 books (plus a jewelry collection, …
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Posted on August 1, 2024 at 6:20 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language, n-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
References to drug dealing |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
References to armed robbery and murder, fights, sad deaths of human and pet |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 2, 2024 |
Actors playing kings are wearing robes of velvet, encrusted with jewels. They take their bows to enthusiastic applause. Then they go back to the dressing room, remove their costumes, and put on the clothes they wear all day, every day, their prison uniforms. These men are incarcerated in the famously bleak maximum security prison in …
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Posted on July 30, 2024 at 6:48 pm
Go Team USA! Go all the athletes who have reached the pinnacle. These are some great family movies about the Olympic Games. The First Olympics: Athens 1896, one of my very favorite sports movies ever, is a made-for-TV miniseries about the first modern-day Olympics. We take the Olympics as a given now, but there were …
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Posted on July 23, 2024 at 6:15 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong bloody violence and language throughout, gore and sexual references |
| Profanity: |
Extended very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Crude sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and alcohol abuse, references to cocaine |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended and sometimes very graphic comic book violence with many characters injured and killed and many disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
July 26, 2024 |
This one is for the fans. I say that with love because this movie loves the fans. I’m sure there are newcomers out there who are not deeply enmeshed in the comic book history of Marvel characters Deadpool and Wolverine, or even the canon of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There may even be a ticket-buyer …
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Posted on July 20, 2024 at 8:00 am
Maika Monroe stars in one of the highest-profile horror films of 2024, “Longlegs,” following her role in a thriller, “The Watcher.” And Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White is now one of television’s biggest stars, with the third season of “The Bear.” (Also in the film is Sasha Lane, who appears in this week’s blockbuster, “Twisters.”) …
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