Movie Mom on KURV: Bullet Train, Luck, Thirteen Lives, Easter Sunday
Posted on August 6, 2022 at 8:00 am
KURV 710 · Movie Mom Nell Minow Reviews Bullet Train
B +
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B +
Luck
Posted on August 4, 2022 at 5:52 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | G |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Fantasy peril and slapstick |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | July 29, 2022 |
Writer Carolyn See likes to say that what’s bad for you is good for you. That’s not necessarily because what is difficult or painful is often a good lesson in humility, resilience, or a path to a better outcome than you could have imagined, all of which is true, but because bad is where the …
Thirteen Lives
Posted on August 4, 2022 at 5:17 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some strong language and unsettling images |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended peril and tense rescue operations, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | Race and economic/nationality status issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 5, 2022 |
Twelve young boys. One coach. Seventeen days trapped. More than 5000 rescue workers from many countries. The eyes of the world were on Thailand’s Tham Luang cave in June and July of 2018 as a soccer team exploring a cave they knew well were trapped by a sudden early monsoon that flooded it before they …
Bullet Train
Posted on August 2, 2022 at 9:57 am
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for strong and bloody violence, pervasive language, and brief sexuality |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Brief explicit sex |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Constant very graphic peril and violence with spurting blood and many murders, guns, knives, poison, fire, crash, snake |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 5, 2022 |
The Japanese bullet train goes 200 miles per hour. Its namesake movie goes even faster. On the train is a briefcase stuffed with millions of dollars and a passenger list that includes an assortment of thieves and assassins and the kidnapped son of a crime kingpin called White Death. Action fans will understand that the …
Not Okay
Posted on July 27, 2022 at 5:54 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language throughout, drug use and some sexual content |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Explicit sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Alcohol and drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Pervasive references to violence including terrorism and mass shootings |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | July 29, 2022 |
The trigger warning cautions us that this film included flashing lights, themes of trauma, and an unlikeable female protagonist. They’re not kidding. The endlessly likable Zoey Deutch plays Danni and we are shown from the very first minute, a close-up of Danni’s splotchy, teary face, where this is going. Like Danni herself, Deutch deploys her …