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Posted on October 27, 2022 at 5:49 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 by the MPAA for some thematic material, violence, substance use and brief strong language. |
| Profanity: |
Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Fantasy substance use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Creepy horror-style violence, sad death of parents, zombies, demons, underworld, some grisly images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Race, gender, trans, and disability inclusion, negative portrayal of religious figures |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 28, 2022 |
Henry Selick, master of the macabre and of stop motion animation (“Coraline,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “James and the Giant Peach”) has produced another Halloween-ish delight. The movie is as visually stunning and deliciously creepy as we have come to hope for from Selick but the story is not as strong as his Neil Gaiman/Roald …
Continue reading “Wendell & Wild”
Posted on October 27, 2022 at 5:30 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for brief sexual material and some language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references, teen kissing |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness |
| Diversity Issues: |
Alcohol, scenes in bar |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 28, 2022 |
Two universal truths are devastatingly sad, even for those lucky enough to have stable, happy families. First, we spend our lives trying to find the sense of complete comfort and security we had in the arms of our parents, or wish we did. Second, except in the most tragic circumstances, we leave our children too …
Continue reading “Aftersun”
Posted on October 20, 2022 at 5:12 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some strong language and brief suggestive material |
| Profanity: |
A few strong words |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some mild references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness portrayed as humorous |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril, animal bites |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 21, 2022 |
Director/co-writer Ol Parker has taken most of the ingredients from the hit “Mamma Mia” and remixed them, as he did with his sequel, “Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!” Oscar-winning actors of vast charm and charisma. Screensaver-pretty settings on the shore. Wedding plans for a young couple that the older folks think may be too …
Continue reading “Ticket to Paradise”
Posted on October 20, 2022 at 5:04 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sequences of strong violence, intense action and some language |
| Profanity: |
A few strong words |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended comic book/supehero peril and violence, many characters injured and killed including family members and a child held and gunpoint and another one murdered, |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 21, 2022 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 3, 2023 |
In the mid-credit scene in “The League of Super-Pets,” Dwayne Johnson (as Black Adam) explains to Krypto the super-dog (also Johnson) what it means to be an anti-hero. “It’s basically the same thing as being a hero but way cooler. You make your own rules and then you break them. Also you can ignore most …
Continue reading “Black Adam”
Posted on October 19, 2022 at 10:30 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Adult |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language throughout, some violent content and brief graphic nudity |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief male nudity, reference to child sexual abuse |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Domestic abuse including sexual abuse, suicide, graphic and disturbing self-mutilation, arson |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 7, 2022 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
December 19, 2022 |
As The Banshees of Inisherin, the new film from Martin McDonagh, the writer/director of “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” begins, Pádraic (Colin Farrell) looks like a man who understands his life and is content with it. He nods companionably at people he passes, as he walks along the spectacularly beautiful path of …
Continue reading “The Banshees of Inisherin”
