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Posted on February 18, 2024 at 5:33 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for strong violence and action and some strong language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended action-style peril, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
Review by guest critic Danielle Mathias with many thanks. Matthew Vaughn has a knack for cheeky yet surprising action movies. If we didn’t find that out from the Kingsman franchise, his new movie Argylle is surely one for the books. This time around, his quintessential and clueless leading character who is dropped into a world …
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Posted on February 14, 2024 at 9:23 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for marijuana use and smoking throughout, some violence and brief strong language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references including adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Extended marijuana use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Perll and violence including guns, fire, fights |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
“One Love” does a better job of conveying the love reggae superstar Bob Marley’s family has for him than in showing us why we should love him, too. This movie, produced with the involvement of Marley’s widow and some of his reportedly 11 children, is a love letter to the international star, who died of …
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Posted on February 13, 2024 at 7:06 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for violence/action and language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situations, labor and childbirth (non-explicit) |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Some social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended comic book/action style peril and violence, crashes, explosions, poison, guns, fire, some disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
When EMT Cassie Webb (Dakota Johnson) introduces her colleague as Ben Parker (Adam Scott) as Ben Parker, your spidey sense better be tingling or this movie is going to be a slog. Not that this origin story of Marvel superhero Madame Web is just another Spider-Man variation. It’s way different. Peter Parker was bitten by …
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Posted on February 8, 2024 at 12:43 pm
B-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for violent content, sexual assault|, language, bloody Images, sexual material, teen drinking, and drug content |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations and sexual assault |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Teen drinking and drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended peril and violence, characters brutally killed, character sees her mother killed by an ax murderer, re-animated corpse, mutilation, murder |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
An uneven mash-up of 80s teen comedy and horror wisely relies on the terrific Kathryn Newton as the title character, a high school girl whose mother was hacked to death by an ax murderer. Her father quickly remarried and they have moved in with her new stepmother, Janet (Carla Gugino), and step-sister, Taffy (Liza Soberano), …
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Posted on February 5, 2024 at 10:45 pm
Get ready for the Super Bowl with some of my favorite football movies: Burt Reynolds, who played college football, stars in The Longest Yard as former pro player who puts together a team in prison. (Ignore the Adam Sandler remake, please.) North Dallas Forty is a darkly comic look at the game with Nick Nolte …
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