Trailer: Samuel L. Jackson is the President in “Big Game”
Posted on April 25, 2015 at 8:00 am
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Trailer: Song from the Forest
Posted on April 24, 2015 at 8:00 am
I was delighted to see that there is a documentary about Louis Sarno, whose work I have admired since I saw the wonderful film Oka! directed by Lavinia Currier.
The Age of Adaline
Posted on April 23, 2015 at 5:59 pm
Be careful what you wish for. You think it would be great to stay 29 forever? Adaline (Blake Lively) finds out that it is not great to become unstuck from time, to watch everyone you love grow old and die, to hurt those you care about because you cannot be honest about who you are. …
The Water Diviner
Posted on April 23, 2015 at 5:58 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for war violence including some disturbing images |
| Profanity: | Brief language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Some sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Wartime violence with battles and terrorist attacks, characters injured and killed, graphic and disturbing images, suicide, mercy killing |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | April 24, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B00WFNPPVY |
Before it detours into not one, not two, but at least three preposterous Hollywood twists, “The Water Diviner” is an absorbing drama about Joshua Connor, an Australian farmer (Russell Crowe, making his directing debut as well) who travels to Turkey to find the remains of his three sons, all killed in the battle of Gallipoli, …
Critics Write About Our First Encounters with Star Wars
Posted on April 23, 2015 at 9:22 am
The latest Criticwire survey asks for our first encounters with “Star Wars.” I had a lot of fun writing about mine: A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away, or at least that’s how it seems now, my then boyfriend and I finished the bar exam, following three years of law school and …
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