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Posted on February 11, 2022 at 12:30 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, brief strong language, and some thematic material |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Teen kisses and sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Reference to a drunk driver and alcohol abuse |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Fatal car accident, sad death, scenes in hospital |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 11, 2022 |
Should a movie have a happy ending? We may guess that the teenage couple who debate this critical question in their very first conversation are destined for each other. We may guess which category this film falls in from the opening scene, a fatal car accident. We will see the story unfold back and forth …
Continue reading “The In Between”
Posted on February 10, 2022 at 5:39 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Murders, gun |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 11, 2022 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
April 4, 2022 |
Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel about a murder in Egypt has been sumptuously brought to screen by Sir Kenneth Branagh, who directed and stars as super-sleuth Hercule Poirot. (It was previously filmed with Peter Ustinov in 2009.) For this version of “Death on the Nile,” Branagh worked again with his outstanding “Belfast” cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos and …
Continue reading “Death on the Nile”
Posted on February 10, 2022 at 5:23 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some rear-end nudity, brief sex scenes, drug use and language |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, proposed threesome, rear nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and recreational drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Punch |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 11, 2022 |
Yes, the title song appears in the romantic comedy “I Want You Back” along with a bunch of other lively and well-chosen selections, but it might as well have included another classic hit single, “Breaking Up is Hard to Do.” Two characters are devastated by being dumped by their significant others in the movie’s opening …
Continue reading “I Want You Back”
Posted on February 3, 2022 at 5:30 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for violence, disaster action, strong language, and some drug use |
| Profanity: |
A handfuls of bad words |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Medication and marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended and intense natural and unnatural disaster, mayhem, floods, earthquakes, looting, guns, suicide, explosions, monster, sacrifice, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 4, 2022 |
If movies had IQs, this one would be in the low double digits; it may even leave the viewer’s IQ a couple of points lower. But, hey, this is a Roland Emmerich end-of-the-world special effects extravaganza and it has tsunamis and looting and nuclear bombs, and chases and explosions and more explosions, so if that’s …
Continue reading “Moonfall”
Posted on January 31, 2022 at 6:48 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some strong violence, thematic and suggestive material, and brief language |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Sword fights and battles, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie, but transphobic humor |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
February 4, 2022 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
April 18, 2022 |
“Cyrano” is a gorgeous film, a true labor of love. The basis, of course, is one of the great classic plays of all time, Edmond Rostand’s 1897 Cyrano de Bergerac, inspired by a real soldier/writer. Jose Ferrar won an Oscar for his performance as the title character in a 1950 film. The story of the …
Continue reading “Cyrano”
