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How to Train Your Dragon 2

Posted on June 12, 2014 at 5:55 pm

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Lowest Recommended Age: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
MPAA Rating: Rated PG for adventure action and some mild rude humor
Profanity: None
Nudity/ Sex: Brief potty humor
Alcohol/ Drugs: None
Violence/ Scariness: Action-style violence including battles, humans and animals in peril, very sad parental death
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: June 13, 2014
Date Released to DVD: November 10, 2014
Amazon.com ASIN: B00LG6XHDY

“How to Train Your Dragon 2” is all fans of the original were hoping and has a good shot at being not just the best animated film of the year but one of the best in any category and for any age. The visuals are stunning, with thrillingly vertiginous 3D swoops and soars as the …

Tribute: Ruby Dee

Posted on June 12, 2014 at 1:48 pm

We lost one of the greats today, the actor and activist Ruby Dee. Kennedy Center honoree with her husband, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee is as much a legend for her pioneering work as a leader of the Civil Rights movement as for her gifts as a performer on stage and in movies. Here is a …

Interview: “Obvious Child’s” Jenny Slate and Gillian Robespierre

Posted on June 12, 2014 at 1:10 pm

Jenny Slate gives a star-making performance in “Obvious Child,” a romantic comedy about Donna, a young stand-up comic who becomes pregnant and has an abortion. Her decision is not presented in a comic or light-hearted way. What is revolutionary is that it is presented at all. As writer-director Gillian Robespierre points out, in movies women …