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Posted on January 16, 2015 at 9:45 am
Sweetest moment of the Critics Choice Awards last night: when Emily Blunt was accepting her award for Best Actress in an Action/Sci-Fi Movie, her husband John Krasinski ran out from backstage, where he was waiting to present an award, to give her a congratulatory kiss. I also loved her comment that it was good to …
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Posted on January 16, 2015 at 6:00 am
All her life Kathy has wanted to ride a horse. Her dreams finally come true when her parents send her to a prestigious horse camp. Most of the girls at camp could see that Kathy is a natural with the horses and all the animals, but some of the other campers prove to be a …
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Posted on January 15, 2015 at 5:58 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language and some violence |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Crime and violence including guns, suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
January 16, 2015 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
April 6, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: |
B00RNELG5E |
After three very different movies, we know two things about writer/director J.C. Chandor. First, he is already one of today’s most original, thought-provoking directors, with a remarkably mature and insightful eye, and second, he is vitally interested in the survival instincts of characters who are under the direst of pressures. His “Margin Call” is the …
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Posted on January 15, 2015 at 5:58 pm
It really happened. Four undocumented high school kids from the poorest of communities took on the most brilliant engineering students from the country’s top colleges in a robotics competition and won. The contest results were one in a million, but once it happened, the movie version was inevitable. George Lopez produced the film and stars …
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Posted on January 15, 2015 at 10:17 am
This year’s Oscar nominations are out! Most of the expected nominees made it, but there were some surprises and disappointments, especially the omission of the Roger Ebert documentary “Life Itself” and the animated mega-hit “The LEGO Movie,” both of which I expected not just to be nominated but to take home the award. It was …
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