Posted on September 8, 2016 at 5:23 pm
The animation is quite good in “The Wild Life,” with exceptional use of space designed to make the best use of 3D and cleverly constructed mechanics. But the voice talent is poor, the characters are dull, and the story and script start out badly and go downhill from there. It is inspired by but bears …
Posted on September 8, 2016 at 8:00 am
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Will Smith plays a man struggling with depression in “Collateral Beauty,” co-starring Oscar winners Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet, along with Michael Peña, and Keira Knightley.
Posted on September 7, 2016 at 3:44 pm
Todd Komarnicki is a Hollywood producer (“Elf”) and writer whose screenplay for this week’s Clint Eastwood film, “Sully,” is exceptionally well-crafted. It was a great pleasure to talk to him about telling the story of Sully Sullenberger, the pilot who made an emergency landing on the Hudson River, and about why Tom Hanks keeps making …
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Posted on September 7, 2016 at 2:00 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some peril and brief strong language |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Acohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Intense peril, dire and tense real-life situation, airplane near-crash |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 9, 2016 |
| Date Released to DVD: | December 19, 2016 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B01LBWHQRA |
Pay attention to the numbers in “Sully,” the new movie from director Clint Eastwood, with Tom Hanks as “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who lost both engines and landed his plane safely on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. 208 is the number of seconds that Sully and his co-pilot, Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) had …
