Posted on September 20, 2015 at 11:28 pm
Despite Andy Samberg’s subpar hosting (“I didn’t see ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ only half of Kitteridge” — really? The take-off on the “Mad Man” Coke commercial couldn’t come up with anything other than killing someone with an Emmy? Really?) and truly awful scripted banter for the presenters, the Emmy Awards show had some enormously satisfying moments. But …
Posted on September 20, 2015 at 10:52 am
“Walt Before Mickey” is the story of Walt Disney’s earliest years in animation, filled with passion and imagination but also plagued by failures and setbacks. “American Pie’s” Thomas Ian Nicholas and “Napoleon Dynamite’s” Jon Heder play brothers Walt and Roy Disney. The film was made on a micro-budget with a first-time director, Khoa Le. It …
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Posted on September 18, 2015 at 11:41 am
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for thematic elements, brief suggestive images and incidental smoking |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Social drinking, brief smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | None |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 18, 2015 |
The best documentaries — and the best movies and the best stories — are fascinatingly specific but universal as well. When actor/comedian Ravi Patel agreed to let his parents, Vasant and Champa, try to find him a wife according to the established traditions of their Gujarati Indian culture, he and his sister Geeta decided to …
Posted on September 18, 2015 at 8:00 am
I couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to remake “Point Break,” because it is such a perfect combination of silly and awesome, with my all-time favorite movie stunt. What could a remake be but superfluous? But I have to say, this trailer looks pretty cool.
Posted on September 17, 2015 at 8:00 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements involving violence and substance abuse |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drugs and discussions of drug abuse |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Prison escape, violent murders, tense confrontations, hostage situation |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 18, 2015 |
Two desperate people who think they have nothing discover that there is still a lot more to lose in this fact-based story about an escaped prisoner and the woman he held captive. The story made headlines throughout the country. Ashley Smith, a young widow still in her 20’s, was in the early, fragile stages of …
