Posted on May 24, 2024 at 7:19 am
To honor our veterans this weekend, John Holway’s oral history ebook, Bloody Ground: Black Rifles in Korea, is available at no cost May 24-28, 2024. Korea is “the forgotten war.” But to those who fought in it, it was the “unforgettable war.” If the names of all those killed were put on a wall, it …
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Posted on May 23, 2024 at 7:14 am
Memorial Day is more than the beginning of summer; it is a day to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. I hope you can take some time over the weekend to think of those we have lost. Some movies to pay your respects: The Outpost was on my top ten list for 2020, a …
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Posted on May 22, 2024 at 5:51 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for sequences of strong violence, and grisly images |
| Profanity: | Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual predators |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Some substance use |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Constant peril and violence, torture, guns, knives, fire, characters injured and killed, disturbing, graphic, and grisly images |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | May 24, 2024 |
It is always a thrill to enter George Miller’s dystopian vision, now approaching the half century mark of eye-popping design and heart-in-the-throat action. The first “Mad Max” film premiered in 1979, and it was like nothing we had seen before. Mel Gibson had the title role as a cop turned warrior in a post-apocalyptic world …
Posted on May 17, 2024 at 5:15 pm
Big stars, big budgets, big crashes and explosions, and big sequels! Summer movies 2024 are going to make audiences very happy. And, as always, what I look forward to most is the ones we don’t even know about yet, the ones that will surprise us, the stars we don’t know about yet. Here are some …
Posted on May 15, 2024 at 2:50 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rate PG for thematic elements and mild language |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Sad death and illness of parents, injured child |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | May 17, 2024 |
Classic movie fans will immediately recognize a brief clip watched by one of the characters in “IF.” It is James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd in “Harvey,” a gentle fantasy about a man who is the only one who can see a tall invisible rabbit-looking creature called a pooka, named Harvey. Later in that film, …
