Posted on May 16, 2015 at 8:00 am
The new “Supergirl” series on CBS stars Melissa Benoist (“Glee,” “Whiplash,” “Danny Collins”) as Superman’s Kryptonian cousin, with Calista Flockhart as her “Devil Wears Prada”-style boss. Former Superman (“Clark and Lois” Dean Cain and former Supergirl Helen Slater play her adoptive parents. It looks great! Coming this fall on CBS.
Posted on May 15, 2015 at 3:06 pm
Dude Perfect is the second largest sports channel on YouTube, with over 4.5 million subscribers and more than 556 million views. (2021 update: over 56 million subscribers!) They are a group of five best friends (plus a panda) from Texas who love sports, comedy and living a positive and faith-based life. Their channel is best …
Posted on May 15, 2015 at 8:00 am
This looks a bit too much like “Bruce Almighty,” but with the Monty Python guys playing aliens, I can’t help but be intrigued.
Posted on May 14, 2015 at 6:00 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for intense sequences of violence throughout, and for disturbing images |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some nudity, references to sexual abuse |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Constant, intense, and graphic violence, guns, explosions, crashes, some disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | May 15, 2015 |
Mad Max (Tom Hardy, taking over from Mel Gibson) stamps on a two-headed lizard and then chews its head off. And that’s just in the first minute. That master of apocalyptic junkyard anarchy, George Miller, is back, bigger, wilder, madder than ever with this fourth of the Mad Max movies, all set in a post-apocalyptic …
Posted on May 14, 2015 at 5:48 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for innuendo and language |
| Profanity: | Some strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Crude sexual humor and some potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Comic peril and violence, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | May 15, 2015 |
| Date Released to DVD: | September 21, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B00NYC3SG4 |
“Pitch Perfect 2” is — bear with me — the musical comedy variation on the “Furious 7” recipe for success. The sequel jettisons any pretense of seriousness of purpose, structural logic, or psychological authenticity, joyfully tosses off any pretense of taking itself, its heartwarmingly diverse characters, or its storyline seriously. And both, unexpectedly but utterly …
