New to Theaters
B +
B +
B +
New on Streaming
B +
B +
B
Posted on October 6, 2016 at 5:53 pm
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for rude humor throughout, language and thematic elements |
| Profanity: |
Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking (adult) |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some peril, sad off-screen death of a child, parental abandonment and marital break-up, cartoonishly exaggerated adult villains, some misbehavior including vandalism and mayhem |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 7, 2016 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 2, 2017 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B01LTHWXX4 |
This just might be the most accurate movie title of all time. Middle school is pretty much the worst years of everyone’s life. Terrible stress and tragedy happens at all ages, but it is the years from 12 to 14 where the internal turmoil and agonizing uncertainty are so acute that we still wince remembering …
Continue reading “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life”
Posted on October 6, 2016 at 5:52 pm
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for disturbing violent content, and some brief nudity |
| Profanity: |
Racist epithets |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity, non-explicit sexual situation, rapes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense, brutal, and graphic violence, rape, murder, hanging, lynching |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 7, 2016 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 9, 2017 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B01LTHN5TU |
Nat Turner was an enslaved man in early 19th century Virginia who led other enslaved people in an armed rebellion against slaveholders thirty years before the Civil War. They killed more than 50 white people and more than 200 black people. For actor Nate Parker, Turner’s story has been a long-time passion project, and he …
Continue reading “The Birth of a Nation”
Posted on October 6, 2016 at 5:50 pm
You can refuse. You can disagree. You can object. You can argue. But none of those words is as charged as “denial,” with its multiple uses all implying injustice, unfairness, even bullying. The title of this film establishes immediately that the courtroom and media battle it depicts is not one of popularity, reputation, or consensus. …
Continue reading “Denial”
Posted on October 5, 2016 at 3:46 pm
“Father Joseph” is an inspiring new documentary from Floating World Pictures about a priest in Haiti who has helped Fondwa, one of the poorest communities in the world, to develop schools, a radio station, and a bank and to build homes to make micro-loans to support the local economy. Almost all of it was wiped …
Continue reading “Interview: Father Joseph of Haiti on His New Documentary”
Posted on October 4, 2016 at 3:58 pm
Bring LEGO Scooby-Doo home for Halloween! Scooby-Doo Haunted Hollywood is set in a LEGO world. the Scooby gang try to rescue an old movie studio, which is not only threatened by developers who want to tear it down, but by a series of movie monsters, which are suddenly haunting the place. I have a copy …
Continue reading “Contest: Win LEGO Scooby-Doo Haunted Hollywood for Halloween!”
