Rated PG for thematic material involving slavery, and some mild language.Directed by Michael Apted (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Nell, The World is Not Enough…)Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney...There’s been a lot of hype about Amazing Grace lately. I’ve had numerous people imploring me to see the film. Email after email, “You’ve gotta see this film.” So I finally caved and...
Rated GDirected by Michael Lembeck (Santa Clause 2)Starring Tim Allen, Martin ShortSanta Clause 3: The Escape Clause is a fun family film that is all about Christmas cheese.JONATHAN’S WORD: Is that an option for scoring this film? Cheese?TODD: Let me get back to you on that one.The third installment of this holiday film finds Santa (Tim Allen) and the...
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violenceDirected by Francis Lawrence (Constantine)Starring Will SmithWill Smith does it again.A virus has wiped out humankind, and as far as Robert Neville (Smith) knows, he’s the last man on earth in 2012. When Neville isn’t hunting for food or gathering supplies, he’s doing research to find a cure for the...
Rated PG-13 for language.Directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer BermanStarring Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti...This was probably one of my favorite “date night” films of 2007.A college graduate (Johansson) in search of a career settles for a job as a nanny working for a New York mom that rivals the snobbiness of Streep’s character in A Devil...
PG-13 for brief sensualityDirected by Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Traffic and Out of Sight)Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Al Pacino, Elliot Gould and Ellen BarkinOcean’s Thirteen is total fluff and yet pretty entertaining.The last time we saw Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his crew, they were paying back ruthless...
Rated PG-13 for some sequences of intense war violence and torture.Directed by Werner Herzog Starring Christian Bale and Steve ZahnIf ugly can be beautiful... Rescue Dawn is it.Rescue Dawn is the incredible true story of Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), a German-born U.S. pilot who was shot down during the Vietnam War on his very first mission and held captive...
PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language, and a brief sexual situation.Directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld, Underworld: Evolution)Starring Steve Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Maggie Q, and Kevin SmithYippee Ki Yay!!It's the beginning of the Fourth of July weekend when someone hacks into the computers of the United States infrastructure, threatening to shut down the entire...