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Posted on February 6, 2015 at 8:00 am
Hallmark Channel’s countdown to Valentine’s Day features some old favorites and some new stories like “Cloudy With a Chance of Love,” premiering on February 8, 2015, at 8 pm (7 central). “Switched at Birth’s” Katie Leclerc stars with Michael Rady, Stacey Dash and Gregory Harrison, in the story of a meteorologist who finds some turbulence …
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Posted on February 5, 2015 at 5:55 pm
“Jupiter Ascending” was released in early 2015 but it was originally scheduled for release in the summer of 2014. It does feel like a summer movie. Somehow warm weather makes us more in the mood for explosions and less in need of superfluities like plot, character, and dialogue that never feels snicker-worthy. It is not …
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Posted on February 5, 2015 at 5:55 pm
Our friends from Bikini Bottom are back in another deliriously silly story, so tender-hearted and cheery that there is no way to resist it. Plus, it has superheroes, a pirate played by Antonio Banderas, existential metaphysics, the guitarist from Guns ‘n’ Roses, and a time-traveling space dolphin with the stentorian tones of a classically trained …
Continue reading “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water”
Posted on February 5, 2015 at 5:53 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| Profanity: |
Some strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, student-teacher relationship |
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Drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Mild |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 6, 2015 |
Sometimes all we want from a movie is Hugh Grant delivering witty, self-deprecating lines about his empty life and bad choices as he learns to find his heart and soul. You know, the cinematic equivalent to eating a pint of Rocky Road ice cream, wearing your comfiest pajamas. And every so often, we are lucky …
Continue reading “The Rewrite”
Posted on February 5, 2015 at 5:41 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
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Rated PG-13 for intense fantasy violence and action throughout, frightening images and brief strong language |
| Profanity: |
One strong word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild references and implied sexual situation |
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Drinking |
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Constant fantasy-style violence and peril with dragons, knights, swords, fire, falls, punches, and sorcery, characters injured and killed, some grisly images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Most of the good guys are white and many of the bad guys are non-white |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 6, 2015 |
If “The Big Lebowski” fans ever imagined a re-teaming of Jeff “The Dude” Bridges and Julianne “Maude” Moore, it is unlikely that they would have come up with the idea of this sword-and-sorcery epic based on the first of the the 16-volume Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. They’re a long way from Lebowski-land in …
Continue reading “Seventh Son”
