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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Posted on December 16, 2015 at 3:01 am

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Lowest Recommended Age: Middle School
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence
Profanity: Mild language
Nudity/ Sex: None
Alcohol/ Drugs: Scene in a bar
Violence/ Scariness: Extensive sci-fi action-style violence with guns and explosions and many characters injured and killed, sad death
Diversity Issues: Diverse characters
Date Released to Theaters: December 16, 2015
Date Released to DVD: March 27, 2016
Amazon.com ASIN: B018FK66TU

The force is strong in this thrilling new chapter in the story set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Fans will get goosebumps right from the start as the familiar logo and musical theme are followed by a scrolling summary to bring us up to date — without a single mention …

Interview: Kent Jones on the Documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut”

Interview: Kent Jones on the Documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut”

Posted on December 15, 2015 at 3:36 pm

If you are very lucky, some day a book will change your life. And no book changed my life more profoundly than Hitchcock/Truffaut, a book-length interview of one of the world’s greatest movie directors by another who happened to be a former film critic and scholar. I was a movie-mad teenager when someone suggested this …

This Christmas: Line Dance

This Christmas: Line Dance

Posted on December 15, 2015 at 8:00 am

I’m going to post clips from ten of my favorite holiday films, starting with one I recommend every year, This Christmas. This delightful line dance scene comes at the very end and it is especially fun because it is the actors having fun on screen, not their characters. Watch for Delroy Lindo (“Blood & Oil”), …