Posted on May 1, 2015 at 8:00 am
Fasten your seatbelts! Summer movies are here. Tonight “Avengers: Age of Ultron” will explode into theaters. It’s already a blockbuster overseas. And for those of you who are looking for something more literary, “Far from the Madding Crowd” opens today as well, with Carey Mulligan as Thomas Hardy’s headstrong heroine wooed by three suitors. Blockbusters …
Posted on April 30, 2015 at 5:45 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and violence |
| Profanity: | Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Some violence including gun, character killed |
| Diversity Issues: | Class issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: | May 1, 2015 |
| Date Released to DVD: | August 3, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B00ZRBQTXO |
It may be a British costume drama based on a classic novel, but Thomas Hardy’s saga of a headstrong woman and the three marriage proposals from very different men is not the usual corsets and teacups. Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of Bathsheba Everdene (a radiant Carey Mulligan), an orphan who inherits …
Posted on April 30, 2015 at 5:17 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action, violence and destruction, and for some suggestive comments |
| Profanity: | Some strong language and jokes about swear words |
| Nudity/ Sex: | A couple of crude jokes |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extensive and intense sci-fi/comic book violence, some disturbing images, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | May 1, 2015 |
| Date Released to DVD: | September 28, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B00WAJ8QXC |
Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) sums it up best. Speaking pretty much to himself but also to us in the audience, he notes that he is on a floating city trying to fight off a robot army with arrows. “It doesn’t make sense,” he concedes. And yet, that is where we are, and we’re okay with it. …
Posted on April 30, 2015 at 5:15 pm
C| Lowest Recommended Age: | Adult |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for sexual content, some graphic nudity, language and brief drug use |
| Profanity: | Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Crude sexual references and explicit situations, nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Tense confrontations, brief violence |
| Diversity Issues: | Treatment of people with mental illness |
| Date Released to Theaters: | May 1, 2015 |
In “Welcome to Me,” Kristen Wiig plays Alice, a depressed woman diagnosed with borderline personality disorder who wins $86 million in the lottery. She uses much of it to create a one-woman television series that feature monologues about her life and re-enactments of some of her most traumatic moments. This is the most recent in …
Posted on April 30, 2015 at 5:15 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some strong language |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | None |
| Diversity Issues: | Issues of aging |
| Date Released to Theaters: | May 1, 2015 |
| Date Released to DVD: | August 23, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B00YIZWGKA |
Fashion icon nonagenarian Iris Apfel is renowned for her taste and style. But people who see this movie, the last from documentary legend Albert Maysles, will remember her for her fearlessness and life force. Along with the signature big, round, black-rimmed glasses, her attire on any given day could include a hand-painted leather Valentino jacket …
