Posted on June 17, 2016 at 3:34 pm
James Patterson’s rollicking best-seller Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, about kids who decide to break every rule in their school’s oppressive Code of Conduct, is now a film starring “Gilmore Girls’” Lauren Graham. Here’s the trailer:
Posted on June 16, 2016 at 5:42 pm
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for mild thematic elements |
| Profanity: | Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Peril, separation from parents |
| Diversity Issues: | Sensitive treatment of disabilites |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 24, 2016 |
| Date Released to DVD: | November 14, 2016 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B01FJ4UGF0 |
Pixar’s first feature film was “Toy Story” because their then-groundbreaking computer animation technology could only create characters who were stiff and smooth. Plastic toys were ideal characters. Each film since has shown exponential technological progress — the furry creatures of “Monsters Inc,” the balloons in “Up,” Merida’s curly red hair in “Brave.” With “Finding Dory,” …
Posted on June 16, 2016 at 5:22 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for crude and suggestive humor, some nudity, action violence and brief strong language |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Comic nudity, some potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, scenes in bar |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended action-style violence, characters injured and killed, some disturbing images and sounds and torture |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | June 17, 2016 |
| Date Released to DVD: | September 26, 2016 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B01H4FJQ2G |
There’s not much intelligence of any kind, central or otherwise, in this silly spy comedy, but what did you expect from a movie based on the sight gag of pairing man mountain former WWE star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson with pocket-sized pepperpot comic Kevin Hart? But its good-natured script by Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen, and …
Posted on June 16, 2016 at 8:00 am
CNET has a great segment on Pixar’s remarkable new character, “Finding Dory’s” Hank, voiced by Ed O’Neill.
Posted on June 16, 2016 at 8:00 am
Tim Tebow takes over hosting duties on the second season of “Home Free,” a reality show that invites contestants to build homes for their heroes. The season premiere is tonight, June 16, 2016, at 9:00 on Fox. In a roundtable interview with journalists, Tebow talked about why he loves doing the show: “Everybody walks away …
