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Posted on March 26, 2015 at 9:48 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for language, thematic elements and smoking images |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some sad stories |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 27. 2015 |
Maybe you like Frank Sinatra and your friend likes the Mamas and Papas. Maybe you’ve argued about who is better, the Beach Boys or Simon and Garfunkel, or maybe you prefer Elvis. Each of those monumentally talented performers had a highly distinctive sound but each of them was backed by the same group of astonishingly …
Continue reading “The Wrecking Crew”
Posted on March 26, 2015 at 5:59 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for mild action and some rude humor |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Potty humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic/cartoon-style/sci-fi peril and violence, no one badly hurt but some mildly scary images |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 27, 2015 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
July 27, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B00XRDYK1C |
“Home” is a cute and colorful movie about an alien invasion with an important safety tip concerning one of the most destructive forces in the universe, causing utter devastation to every known life form. Yes, it is hitting the dreaded “send to all.” This is the catastrophe that strikes Oh (Jim Parsons), part of an …
Continue reading “Home”
Posted on March 26, 2015 at 3:49 pm
Passes are on sale for Ebertfest 2015! I’ll be there! From Chaz Ebert’s blog: We are opening with Jean-Luc Godard’s silent opus in 3D, “Adieu Au Langage” (“Goodbye To Language”). Some have complained that you were against 3D films, but we know that you were against 3D when it was used only as a gimmick …
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Posted on March 26, 2015 at 12:15 pm
Geek Dad has a great list of apps for movie lovers, including MoviePass, which gives you unlimited movie tickets for one set fee. I’d add Flixter from Rotten Tomatoes and of course my favorite, IMDB.
Posted on March 25, 2015 at 1:33 pm
The cast and director of “Pretty Woman” reunited on the Today Show to reminisce about the movie that, improbably, made us root for a predatory finance guy and a prostitute to live happily ever after. They discussed the original script, which was not a romantic comedy but a cautionary story about drug abuse. When it …
Continue reading “Pretty Woman — 25 Years Later”
