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Posted on September 23, 2021 at 5:50 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Preschool |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some thematic elements |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Very mild peril and tension |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 24, 2021 |
“My Little Pony: A New Generation” follows in the tradition of previous media from the world of MLP: candy colors, poppy music, gentle humor, warm-hearted lessons about friendship, and basically a way to sell merchandise. We know where we are when it begins by reminding us that it is produced by Hasbro, a toy company. …
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Posted on September 23, 2021 at 5:12 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Preschool |
| MPAA Rating: |
The PG-13 rating is for thematic material involving suicide, brief strong language and some suggestive references |
| Profanity: |
Brief strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Kisses |
Adapting a play for the screen is always a challenge, especially when the play is hugely successful because fans are attached to elements of the play that might not work on screen. It is even more of a challenge when the play is a musical. “Dear Evan Hansen” is a multiple award-winning Broadway musical about …
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Posted on September 16, 2021 at 5:51 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for sexual content and drug abuse |
| Profanity: |
Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and prescription drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Corruption, abuse, angry confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 17, 2021 |
Near the beginning of “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” an off-camera make-up artist gently suggests that singer/puppeteer/televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (Jessica Chastain) remove her iconic, one might even say garish, cosmetics. She wipes off her lipstick but the dark lip-liner remains. She explains that it is permanent. Like her eye-liner and eyebrows, it is tattooed …
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Posted on September 16, 2021 at 3:27 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for strong bloody violence and pervasive language |
| Profanity: |
Constant very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Apparent drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Constant, extended, and very. bloody peril and violence with extremely graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 17, 2021 |
I’m going to take a controversial position here. I think writer/director Joe Carnahan is like Tarantino without the burdensome pretension. No fetishization of popular culture, no obsessive fixation on period detail, no pulpy re-imagining of historical facts, no pretense of deeper meaning. No, Carnahan says to us, “If you are a fan of dark humor, …
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Posted on September 12, 2021 at 12:41 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for for some disturbing violence, graphic nudity, language and brief sexuality |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and disturbing torture violence and some other peril and violence with graphic images, murder |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 10, 2021 |
“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children,” said Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. “There’s a weight a man can accrue,” William (Oscar Isaac) tells us in “The Card Counter.” “The weight created by his past actions. It is a weight which can …
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