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Posted on May 7, 2015 at 5:41 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some language, drug use and brief sexuality |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and explicit situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, drugs, and drug overdose |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Battle scenes, extended discussion of war dead |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 8, 2015 |
If only salutory intentions and one good performance could save a film so fundamentally wrongly conceived. “Bravetown” starts out as “Footloose,” veers into “Ordinary People,” and ends up as “Swing Kids,” with jaw-dropping shifts in tone and focus and total misreading of the import of its message. It really is a shame, because it has …
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Posted on May 7, 2015 at 5:34 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Adult |
| MPAA Rating: |
Unrated |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very explicit sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some peril |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 8, 2015 |
Comedies, especially dark ones, have a lot of freedom when it comes to narrative logic, but the emotional logic still has to ring true. No matter how crazy the storyline gets, the way the characters respond to it has to make sense, and that is where “The D Train” goes, well, off the rails. Jack …
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Posted on May 7, 2015 at 5:05 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language and some drug use |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Peril |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
May 8, 2015 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
August 17, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B00Y250GE4 |
A surf bum named Ian (Luke Wilson) is explaining the physics of the interaction between surfboard and wave: it’s an inanimate object in an ever-changing environment. One doesn’t move. One never stops moving in powerful and highly unpredictable ways. And that is also the story of the woman who is not quite listening to Ian’s …
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Posted on May 7, 2015 at 3:55 pm
Australian actor Brenton Thwaites (“Maleficent,” “The Giver”) stars in “Ride,” a new film written, directed, and starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt. She plays Jackie, an overprotective mother whose son Angelo (Thwaites) is about to start college and move into a dorm a short walk from their apartment. When he decides to drop out of college and …
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Posted on May 7, 2015 at 12:53 pm
J.K. Rowling’s first book for adults was the dark, sometimes savage story of small town politics, The Casual Vacancy. The title refers to an elected office that is vacated before the term is up, which in this story occurs in Pagford, a small, cozy-looking English village. But its inhabitants are miserable. The town is filled …
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