Posted on December 16, 2021 at 4:27 pm
It was a great honor to be invited to participate on the Smithsonian’s panel discussion of “It’s a Wonderful Life” and what we can learn from it about our history.
Posted on December 16, 2021 at 3:21 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language throughout and some sexual content |
| Profanity: | Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references, some very crude, sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | A lot of alcohol, scenes in a bar, drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Tense family confrontations, scuffles |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 17, 2021 |
JR Moehringer’s bittersweet memoir has been turned into a tender movie by director George Clooney. Moehringer wrote about growing up with his single mother in a ramshackle house with a mostly loving but dysfunctional extended family, learning his most important lessons about life and manhood from his bartender uncle Charlie and the regulars at the …
Posted on December 14, 2021 at 12:12 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for sequences of action/violence, some language and brief suggestive comments |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Kiss |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extended comic-book/fantasy peril and violence, characters injured and killed, very sad death, some graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 17, 2021 |
| Date Released to DVD: | April 11, 2022 |
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” is everything a comic book movie should be, filled with excitement, heart, humor, and details to delight the fans. There were audible gasps of joy and more than a few tears in the audience when I saw it, and some of them were mine. It is tough to say much more …
Posted on December 9, 2021 at 5:36 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references, some crude, sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Tense emotional confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 10, 2021 |
Writer/director Aaron Sorkin takes three real-life potentially cataclysmic events in the life of America’s most famous celebrity couple and packs them into one high-intensity week for “Being the Ricardos,” with Oscar-winners Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz. As title cards take us through each day of the week of production …
Posted on December 9, 2021 at 5:33 pm
A-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some strong violence, strong language, thematic content, suggestive material and brief smoking |
| Profanity: | Strong and racist language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and non-explicit situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking, references to drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Gang violence, knives, gun, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 10, 2021 |
| Date Released to DVD: | March 21, 2022 |
Why remake a 60-year-old movie that won ten Oscars and is still beloved, even while admitting its shortcomings and its being quaintly out of date on some of the issues it raises? Because Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner have taken the best from the original and made the essence of the story even more …
