Posted on October 30, 2016 at 10:27 am
Joel Edgerton stars in “Loving,” the true story of the couple whose 1967 Supreme Court case successfully challenged laws prohibiting marriage between people of different races. In an interview, the Australian actor spoke about playing the quiet man from a small town in Virginia who just wanted the Court to know, “I love my wife.” …
Posted on October 27, 2016 at 5:40 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some mild references, fertility issues, out of wedlock pregancy |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and drunkenness, drinking to deal with grief and stress |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Very sad deaths |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 28, 2016 |
“New Life” is a bland but sweet, touching story about an attractive couple, kind-hearted, good people who are very much in love, and learn that happily ever after does not always mean what you think. Ben and Ava meet as children. As they get older (played by Jonathan Patrick Moore and co-screenwriter Erin Bethea), their …
Posted on October 27, 2016 at 5:33 pm
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | NR (some sexuality, drug use, brief violence, and language throughout) |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drugs and drug dealing, alcohol, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Bullies, beating, disturbing images, sad offscreen death |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie, homophobia |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 28, 2016 |
| Date Released to DVD: | February 27, 2017 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B01LTHZVM4 |
In the 2017 Oscar winner for Best Picture, a man tells a young boy a story, and, as with many stories adults tell children, especially in movies, it is a story with a purpose. Juan (Mahershala Ali) tells the boy derisively known as “Little” (Alex Hibbert) that when he was young, a woman saw him …
Posted on October 27, 2016 at 5:10 pm
Dashing, globe-trotting symbology professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) doesn’t work any harder at trying to prevent a global pandemic than Hanks and director Ron Howard work at trying to make the Dan Brown book into a movie. You can guess how Langdon’s effort works out. I’m here to tell you that the movie does not. …
Posted on October 27, 2016 at 3:48 pm
For Halloween, some of my favorite movie witches: Kim Novak is a sexy witch who will lose her powers if she falls in love in “Bell Book and Candle.” The outstanding cast includes Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon, and Elsa Lanchester. Angelica Huston is a very scary witch who can turn humans into mice in Roald …
