Posted on September 5, 2014 at 1:30 am
Naomi Judd and Robert Loggia star in “Evergreen Christmas,” on DVD and VOD November 4, 2014. Leaving her seemingly glamorous Hollywood life on hold, Evie Lee is forced to return to her small hometown of Balsam Falls, Tennessee and her family’s once-thriving Christmas tree farm to attend her father’s unexpected funeral. As the eldest sibling, …
Posted on September 4, 2014 at 6:00 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language, some sexuality and drug use |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Scuffle, some creepy themes |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 5, 2014 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B00MB7KXPM |
“The One I Love” is pretty good as a movie and sublime as an exercise, especially an acting exercise. Just describing details about the story will require a huge spoiler alert, which I will insert below before giving away some of what happens in the film (omitting the ending, of course). But first, we can …
Posted on September 4, 2014 at 5:51 pm
C-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG for thematic material and smoking |
| Profanity: | Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Kissing |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Some scuffles |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 5, 2014 |
“The Identical” is an incompetent mishmash of mawkish sentimentality larded with a few pleasant musical numbers and some random asides about Israel. I’m not making this up. It is inspired by an intriguing fact. Elvis Presley was a twin. His brother was stillborn. Screenwriter Howard Klausner (“The Grace Card”) changes the names and imagines what …
Posted on September 4, 2014 at 4:58 pm
Joan Rivers has died at age 81. More abrasive than her trademark raspy voice, Rivers wanted to be an actress but became famous as a comedian, in an era when comedy was almost completely all-male. She did act, appearing on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. But mostly she did whatever anyone would pay …
Posted on September 4, 2014 at 8:00 am
ABC will be airing a tribute to the classic educational series “Schoolhouse Rock” on September 7. Now parents can sing along to “I’m Just a Bill” and “Conjunction Junction” and share with their kids these delightful and remarkably informative gems. Victoria Miller wrote for The Examiner: According to CNN, the man behind the show’s iconic soundtrack …
