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Posted on June 29, 2023 at 5:24 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, language and smoking |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
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Extended peril and action-violence, characters injured and killed, some disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 30, 2023 |
It’s been a long time since the archeology students of Dr. Henry (Indiana) Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) gazed longingly at him in the lecture hall. In the first movie of this now-five chapter series, one of them even wrote: “love you” on her eyelids. That was in the 1940s, and we get a flashback to …
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Posted on June 16, 2023 at 3:03 pm
Once you’ve watched the feature films with the most memorable fathers, take a look at these documentaries from a small but impressive sub-genre, movies made by directors about their own real-life fathers, mostly famous, some contentious or sorrowful, all thoughtful and illuminating, reflecting one of what can be life’s most complicated and freighted relationships. Tell …
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Posted on June 16, 2023 at 12:01 am
In honor of Father’s Day, my eBook, 50 Must-See Movies: Fathers is FREE today through Father’s Day, this weekend, June 16-19, 2023. What do “Wall Street” and the “Star Wars” saga and, seemingly, about half the movies ever made have in common? They are about fathers. In “Wall Street,” Charlie Sheen plays the ambitious Bud, who …
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Posted on June 15, 2023 at 5:16 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, some strong language and partial nudity |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language, several s-words, one f-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief male non-sexual nudity, bare tush |
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None |
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Extended comic-book action peril and violence, injuries and sad deaths |
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None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 15, 2023 |
“The Flash” is centered in the sweet spot between action, comedy, and heart because is is grounded in a deep affection for the source material but is not afraid to play with some of its absurdities. I’m going to tread very carefully to avoid spoilers (and alert you to what I hope will be just …
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Posted on May 27, 2023 at 12:33 am
To honor our veterans this weekend, John Holway’s oral history ebook, Bloody Ground: Black Rifles in Korea, is available at no cost through May 31, 2023. Korea is “the forgotten war.” But to those who fought in it, it was the “unforgettable war.” If the names of all those killed were put on a wall, …
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