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Posted on March 14, 2024 at 5:28 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for disturbing material, violence, some strong sexual content, pervasive language, and drug use |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations, non-sexual rear nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: |
Class issues |
Sometimes an actor seems more interested in the role he wants to play than the movie he wants to make. Peter Dinklage is wonderful to watch as always in “American Dreamer” as an unhappy adjunct professor (meaning no benefits, no tenure, not even a parking spot) who is morose and cynical and yet somehow still …
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Posted on March 11, 2024 at 9:58 pm
It was a lot of fun to talk about last night’s Oscars with radio star Don Rosen!
Posted on March 7, 2024 at 6:33 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for martial arts action/mild violence, scary images and some mild rude humor |
| Profanity: |
Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended action-style peril and martial arts fight scenes |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 8, 2024 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
April 25, 2024 |
Skidoosh! Jack Black returns as Po in the fourth chapter of the saga about the big-hearted panda who has become a kung fu master with the title of Dragon Warrior, and earned the gratitude of his community and the respect of his colleagues, the Furious Five. If you don’t know who they are, don’t worry; …
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Posted on March 5, 2024 at 9:41 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for thematic material, some violence, language and smoking |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
References to prostitution |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and alcoholism, smoking |
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Peril and violence including a fire, reference to suicide, dire poverty, loss of parents, serious illness |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
Frances Xavier Cabrini was an Italian nun who became the first US citizen to be canonized as a saint. Sent to the US by the Pope in 1889, she established an order called the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and, despite poor health, she fought poverty, misogyny, and bigotry against Italian immigrants …
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Posted on February 22, 2024 at 6:39 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for crude sexual content, full nudity, language and some violent content |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references and situations, nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended peril and very intense violence including beheading, guns, fire, torture, some graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 23, 2024 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
April 23, 2024 |
Once there was a vibrant category of trashy, low-budget films for the cheap theaters and drive-ins. Sometimes called grindhouse films or exploitation films because they were designed to be shocking, they are so beloved by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez that they made a tribute film called “Grindhouse” that was a high-budget version of the …
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