Posted on September 22, 2022 at 10:53 am
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science has published an excellent list of “Must-Read Books About Modern Cinema, Movies and the People Who Make Them.” Some of my favorites from the list: Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Slate movie critic Dana Stevens is …
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Posted on September 21, 2022 at 7:59 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | NR |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, scenes in bar, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Comic violence, attempted suicide and suicidal ideation |
| Diversity Issues: | BIPOC characters used solely as guides for white characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 21, 2022 |
As anyone who has seen “The Holiday” knows, movies love the “meet cute.” In “The Holiday,” Eli Wallach plays a screenwriter from the 1940s who tells Kate Winslet that a “meet cute” is where there is something awwww-some about the way the couple we’ll be rooting for first see each other. The example he gives …
Posted on September 15, 2022 at 5:23 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language, some sexual content and drug use |
| Profanity: | Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol and drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Violence, murder, scufffles |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 9, 2022 |
“Confess, Fletch” is a reboot of the affectionately remembered Chevy Chase films based on the series of books by Gregory MacDonald. The post for the new film, with Jon Hamm as the title character, is charmingly retro, evoking the style and font of the 70s. The film, from writer/director Greg Motolla, is not as effective …
Posted on September 13, 2022 at 6:47 pm
If you’re in the Washington DC area, you can join me for a free screening of the family film “The Railway Children,” loosely based on the classic book by beloved children’s author E. Nesbit. Three evacuee children are sent by their mother to the rural English countryside to escape the bombings during WWII. A dangerous …
Posted on September 4, 2022 at 8:00 am
The movies of fall 2022 include top actors and directors (one returning after 16 years) and some promising newcomers. Armageddon Time stars Oscar winners Sir Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway plus “Succession” star Jeremy Strong in a 1980s-set story of a white boy from a Jewish family in New York who is befriended by a …
