Posted on August 18, 2016 at 1:21 pm
It takes a lot of courage to re-make a film that holds the record (tied with “Titanic” and “Lord of the Rings”) for the most Oscars, but producer Roma Downey has more than updated movie-making technology to bring to “Ben-Hur.” After the success of their previous Biblical epics “The Bible” and “A.D.” they wanted to …
Posted on August 18, 2016 at 8:00 am
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, action and peril |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Brief potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Monsters, peril, sad offscreen deaths |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 19, 2016 |
| Date Released to DVD: | November 20, 2016 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B01KMKM4TW |
LAIKA Studios’ fourth film, “Kubo and the Two Strings,” is a fable of exquisite beauty and meaning, gorgeously produced in the most painstaking of all forms of filmmaking, stop-motion animation. They are the modern-day equivalent of the monks who labored for years on each page of illuminated manuscripts. Every detail in every frame and every …
Posted on August 17, 2016 at 3:18 pm
The 5-disc set Pioneers of African-American Cinema, funded via Kickstarter, is a treasure of rarely-seen films from pioneering filmmakers like Oscar Micheaux. The New York Times wrote, “From the perspective of cinema history — and American history, for that matter — there has never been a more significant video release.” These were known as “race …
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Posted on August 17, 2016 at 11:18 am
The bestseller Same Kind of Different As Me is the true story of a sophisticated art dealer whose life was changed by his friendship with a homeless man. We are pleased to premiere the trailer for the film based on the book, starring Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou, and Renee Zellweger. The movie will be in …
Posted on August 17, 2016 at 8:00 am
The classic Katherine Paterson novel, The Great Gilly Hopkins, the story of an angry foster child who dreams of being reunited with her mother, is now a movie starring Oscar-winner Kathy Bates as a kind-hearted foster mother.
