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Posted on December 14, 2023 at 12:34 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some violence, mild language and thematic elements |
| Profanity: |
Some mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Candy with magical properties |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Fantasy peril and violence, character bullied and beat up, sad offscreen death of a parent |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
December 15, 2023 |
“Wonka” is the origin story of everyone’s favorite fictional chocolatier, the central figure in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Anyone who ever wondered how Willy Wonka got started, how he developed his incomparably delicious and deliciously magical candies, built a factory, and met the Oompa-Loompas, will …
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Posted on December 13, 2023 at 10:47 pm
Hallmark has justifiably been criticized for its all-white, all-Christmas winter holiday movies, and then it was justifiably criticized for its first attempts at a Hanukkah movies, with problems that ranged from insensitivity and ignorance to outright failures (captioning describing a Hebrew prayer as Yiddish, for example). But “Round and Round,” written by Tamar Laddy of …
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Posted on December 13, 2023 at 5:09 pm
We all love the sweet holiday movies with snowflakes gently falling on the upturned faces of happy families, where any conflict is minor enough to be resolved in 90 minutes and there are lots of hugs and cookies. But there are also a lot of holiday movies about dysfunctional families, some comic, some darkly comic, …
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Posted on December 12, 2023 at 2:50 pm
I love the Christmas classic movies and watch as many as I can every year. But there are many great Christmas films that don’t get mentioned as often and I like to remind families that these are worth making time for as well. 1. The Nativity Story This sincere and respectful story is a good …
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Posted on December 5, 2023 at 11:55 am
The Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced this morning with American Fiction, May/December, and Past Lives among the top nominees. In order to qualify, the budget for the film has to be at least 70 minutes long and with a budget under $30 million (raised last year from $22.5 million), or, in the television categories, …
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