Posted on October 17, 2022 at 1:47 pm
Happy Halloween! Halloween gives kids a thrilling opportunity to act out their dreams and pretend to be characters with great power. But it can also be scary and even overwhelming for the littlest trick-or-treaters. An introduction to the holiday with videos from trusted friends can help make them feel comfortable and excited about even the …
Posted on October 13, 2022 at 5:58 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for some language and brief nudity |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Brief non-sexual nudity, themes of sexual predation, #metoo |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol and medication |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Tense emotional confrontations, accident with bloody injury |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 14, 2022 |
| Date Released to DVD: | December 19, 2022 |
Author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik (playing himself) introduces us to “Tár‘s” subject, Maestro Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) at one of those events that certify the highest levels of achievement, an interview before an appreciative audience of highly cultured Manhattanites. As he reads out her almost preposterously accomplished resume, her beleaguered assistant mouths silently …
Posted on October 13, 2022 at 5:18 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for thematic content involving racism, strong disturbing images and racial slurs |
| Profanity: | Racist epithets |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 28, 2022 |
| Date Released to DVD: | January 16, 2023 |
In March of 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime. It only took 67 years. It was in 1955 that a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. “Till” is his story, but it …
Posted on October 12, 2022 at 9:52 am
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some suggestive material and brief strong language |
| Profanity: | Strong language (s-words, one f-word) |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Mild references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Some alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Some swordplay and fight scenes |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 14, 2022 |
Most people do not remember that before he met Juliet at the masked ball and instantly fell in love with her as they communicated not just by iambic pentameter but by sonnet, Romeo was in love with Juliet’s cousin Rosaline. She was also a Capulet and a part of the family of his family’s sworn …
Posted on October 6, 2022 at 5:20 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for brief violence and bloody images |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol and drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Very graphic bloody images, wartime violence |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | October 7, 2022 |
| Date Released to DVD: | December 5, 2022 |
David O. Russell’s film, “Amsterdam” has a powerhouse cast, a wisp of a true story and a wildly uneven and overly complicated script. The results are, therefore, messy and mixed. As a fellow movie-goer told me, watching the movie was like bobbing for apples. Much of the time we felt like we were under water …
