Posted on October 14, 2016 at 3:49 pm
Anna Kendrick is one of my favorite performers and she is terrific as always in “The Accountant.” I first saw her singing “Life Upon the Wicked Stage” from “Show Boat” with “Cabaret’s” Kit Kat Girls in “My Favorite Broadway.” She sang another too-old-for-her Broadway classic, “Ladies Who Lunch,” in “Camp,” where she played an “All …
Posted on October 14, 2016 at 3:01 pm
Writer Kara Holden says middle school is when “your eyes are being opened to the world and you’re not as sheltered as you once were able to be. You’re growing up. That’s a part of growing up, being disappointed and coming across difficulties unfortunately. But there’s also the turmoil of hormones and changing and feeling …
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Posted on October 14, 2016 at 8:00 am
I really enjoyed this discussion of Mark Wahlberg’s career on the FiveThirtyEight website. Walt Hickey’s “Hollywood Taxonomy” of the four categories of Mark Wahlberg movies can really be used to categorize pretty much all movies. It’s not just divided into serious action (“Deepwater Horizon”), less serious action (“Transformers: Age of Extinction”), arthouse (“The Fighter,” “I …
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Posted on October 13, 2016 at 5:24 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some drug material, sexuality and language |
| Profanity: | Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Sad offscreen death, |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 14, 2016 |
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” That, of course, is Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s classic of adolescent anguish, …
Posted on October 13, 2016 at 3:17 pm
What happened to Halle Berry’s career? The trailer for “Kidnap” looks awful. The Guardian hilariously takes it apart.
