Posted on December 3, 2015 at 5:46 pm
Mother Teresa, the Albanian nun who devoted her life to “the poorest of the poor” in India, is one of the foremost figures of the 20th century, and on the way to being recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. Some people are disturbed by discovering through her published letters that at times she …
Posted on December 3, 2015 at 3:37 pm
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue, nudity, language, some violence and drug use |
| Profanity: | Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Explicit sexual references and situations, nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | A theme of the film is gang-related violence, guns, shooting, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | Race and gender issues are the theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 4, 2015 |
| Date Released to DVD: | January 25, 2016 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B017W1P79I |
“WAKE UP!” Laurence Fishburne pleads at the end of Spike Lee’s incendiary movie, “School Daze,” not just one of Lee’s best films but one of the most important films of the 1980’s. He was not talking to his fellow students. He was not talking to the camera. He was talking to us in the audience. …
Posted on December 3, 2015 at 1:01 pm
“Chi-Raq” is one of the best films of the year and one of the most important films of many years. It is a searing wail of love, grief, and fury inspired by “Lysistrata,” a play written in 411 BC. A small group of reporters spoke to star Teyonah Parris and co-writer/director Spike Lee. Parris told …
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Posted on December 3, 2015 at 10:07 am
I look forward to this every year and it is always better than I hoped — this compilation of the year in movies is simply spectacular. Here’s the list of films in order.
Posted on December 2, 2015 at 3:32 pm
Roque Baños composed the haunting score for Ron Howard’s new film, “In the Heart of the Sea,” based on the real-life whaling expedition that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. “I got involved at the very beginning of the shooting,” he told me in an interview. “My first conversation with Ron was before he started to …
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