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Quiz Lady

Posted on November 2, 2023 at 5:26 pm

B +
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
Profanity: Very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual humor
Alcohol/ Drugs: Alcohol and drugs
Violence/ Scariness: Comic peril and violence, some injuries
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: November 3, 2023

Sandra Oh and Awkwafina playing sisters in a comedy? Sign me up!  They’re two of my favorites. There’s one wild sister with blue hair extensions, big earrings, and no impulse control and one shy, serious sister who dresses in drab monotone and watches her favorite game show with her 20-year-old dog every night? Sounds like …

The Holdovers

The Holdovers

Posted on November 2, 2023 at 5:25 pm

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Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language, some drug use and brief sexual material
Profanity: Very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Brief sexual references
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking, smoking, marijuana
Violence/ Scariness: Some peril, teen scuffles, references to wartime death, grief, and loss
Diversity Issues: Economic and racial diversity a theme of the movie, mental illness
Date Released to Theaters: November 3, 2023

Barton is one of those posh boarding schools weighted with the history of generations of highly privileged, casually arrogant, hormonally charged teenager boys. “The Holdovers” takes place there over the Christmas holidays of 1969-70. Barton has buildings with just the slightest touch of casusually arrogant shabbiness found only where there are multiple generations of wealth …

Family Movies for Halloween 2023!

Family Movies for Halloween 2023!

Posted on October 24, 2023 at 8:06 am

Happy Halloween! Halloween gives kids a thrilling opportunity to act out their dreams and pretend to be characters with great power. But it can also be scary and even overwhelming for the littlest trick-or-treaters. An introduction to the holiday with videos from trusted friends can help make them feel comfortable and excited about even the …

Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon

Posted on October 19, 2023 at 5:34 pm

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Lowest Recommended Age: High School
MPAA Rating: Rated R for violence, some grisly images, and language
Profanity: Strong and racist language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual references
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking and drunkenness
Violence/ Scariness: Extended peril and violence including murder, guns, explosions
Diversity Issues: A theme of the movie
Date Released to Theaters: October 20, 2023

Martin Scorsese brings everything he knows to the fact-based epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” everything he knows about filmmaking and everything he knows about the conflicts and betrayals in American history, despite all efforts to remove them from curricula and libraries, continue to pulsate through our culture. The film is based on the prize-winning …