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Posted on April 25, 2024 at 5:07 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some sexual content, language throughout, and graphic nudity |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Male frontal nudity (locker room), explicit sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Character is injured |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
April 26, 2024 |
“Challengers” is about a love triangle set in the world of professional tennis. We follow the configurations of the various romantic and sexual encounters like we follow the ball being hurled over the net left to right, right to left. It is beautiful to watch, with cinematography by Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, but more perfume commercial than …
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Posted on April 24, 2024 at 5:31 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not rated |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Discussion of abortion |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
News images of violence including January 6, 2021 |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
April 26, 2024 |
This is a very scary movie, and the scariest part is that the people it is about will never see themselves in it. At less than 90 minutes, it can only touch the surface of some of the issues behind the undermining of democracy by a toxic stew of billionaires seeking less regulation and more …
Continue reading “Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy”
Posted on April 21, 2024 at 9:08 pm
Have a blessed Passover! Whether you’re on Zoom or socially distant in person, enjoy the holiday devoted to family, freedom, and courage. Dayanu! The story of the exodus to freedom is for all ages. Alex Edelman has thoughts. (If you have not watched his special , “Just for Us” on HBO, please check it out.) …
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Posted on April 17, 2024 at 8:08 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
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Rated R for some language and strong violence throughout |
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Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Prostitutes, implied sexual abuse |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extensive wartime violence with guns, knives, arrows, explosions, many characters killed, many graphic and disturbing sounds and images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
April 19, 2024 |
It is a perfect match of story and director. Guy Ritchie is at his best in high-energy stories of very attractive men with mad fighting skills and no hesitation in using them. In between shoot-outs, explosions, and high crimes, casually toss off understated quips and references to the playing fields of Eton. This is a …
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Posted on April 9, 2024 at 8:07 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong violent content, bloody/disturbing images, and language |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extensive very intense and graphic wartime violence, characters injured, tortured, killed, and executed, mass grave, disturbing and gory images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
April 12, 2024 |
Writer/director Alex Garland likes to present audiences with extinction level disaster, from the zombie apocalypse “28 Days Later” to the investigate-the-anomaly “Annihilation” and the AI-can- outsmart-us “Ex Machina.” In all of them, though, the story is not the causes or consequences of the unconquerable threats; it is us, and the way we respond to them. …
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