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Posted on March 5, 2015 at 5:59 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity |
| Profanity: |
Constant very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief nudity (glimpse of porn on television) |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and graphic violence, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 6, 2015 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
June 15, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B00UC9SOKW |
So, basically, no one here saw “Terminator.” Or “Frankenstein.” But maybe they did see “Robocop?” Or “Short Circuit?” Writer/director Neill Blomkamp likes sci-fi allegories of social and political conflicts, as we saw in “District 9” and “Elysium.” Here he imagines that a couple of years from now South Africa will replace most of its front-line …
Continue reading “Chappie”
Posted on March 5, 2015 at 5:55 pm
A documentary called “Young @ Heart” had a choir of singers in their 80’s performing contemporary rock songs. The very fact of their age and experience gave an unexpectedly profound meaning to the words. And in “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” a plot that ranges from silly to very silly still resonates, because the …
Continue reading “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
Posted on March 5, 2015 at 5:30 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Discussion of tobacco |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
References to injury and environmental degredation |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
March 6, 2015 |
Do you remember the tobacco executives standing up before a Congressional Committee, their right hands raised, each of them swearing that they did not believe that tobacco caused cancer? That was in 1994, three decades after the US Surgeon General’s report showing the adverse health effects of cigarettes. Any other consumer product with that much …
Continue reading “Merchants of Doubt”
Posted on March 5, 2015 at 3:38 pm
British-born actor Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, The Newsroom) is competing with himself this week as the star of two big releases. In the sequel “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” he returns as Sonny Kapoor, the ever-optimistic proprietor of the title accommodations. His business plan: “To outsource old age.” His vision: “To create a home …
Continue reading “MVP of the Week: Dev Patel”
Posted on March 4, 2015 at 3:50 pm
I really enjoyed the recent series on “Unlikeable Women” from the folks at Bitch Flicks. I remember a panel of women filmmakers at Comic-Con all agreeing that the code word for making female characters meek and pliable (and giving all the tough dialogue and action to the male characters) was “relatable.” So cheers to the …
Continue reading “A Tribute to Unlikeable Women in the Movies”
