Posted on April 15, 2016 at 3:46 pm
“The Dark Horse” is based on the true story of Maori speed chess champion Genesis Potini, who struggled with bipolar disorder but taught underprivileged children to play chess. Here is the real Genesis, who died in 2011.
Posted on April 15, 2016 at 8:00 am
Scarlett Johansson plays Kaa the snake in this clip from the new live-action “Jungle Book.” Sterling Holloway, who also played Winnie the Pooh, provided the mesmerizing voice in the animated original.
Posted on April 14, 2016 at 5:32 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | 4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for some sequences of scary action and peril |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended peril and violence including bees, a tiger, a snake, and fire |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the film |
| Date Released to Theaters: | April 15, 2016 |
| Date Released to DVD: | August 29, 2016 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B01CTNDO58 |
The camera swoops behind the familiar Disney castle logo to take us to that magical place — you know, like the one that is found second star to the right and straight on ’til morning or through the wardrobe in the attic, down a rabbit hole, or via a house swept up in a Kansas …
Posted on April 14, 2016 at 5:27 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| Profanity: | Strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Gang related violence, domestic violence |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | April 15, 2016 |
It would be so easy — and so wrong — to make this true story of a Maori chess champion who struggles with mental illness as he teaches underprivileged kids into a safe, simple, saccharine, uplifting story. But writer/director James Napier Robertson, who himself played hundreds of chess games with real-life speed chess champion Genesis …
Posted on April 14, 2016 at 5:13 pm
In 1991, Ice Cube was barely into his 20’s when he starred in Boyz N The Hood, one of the most powerful American films of the 20th century, a searing indictment of gang violence and a tribute to one of the truly great fathers in movie history. Fifteen years later, in the third of his …
