MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: The Hunger Games film series, based on the best-selling young adult novels (2008-10) by Suzanne Collins, began in 2012 as fairly standard dystopian fantasy, admittedly grim but […]
MPAA Rating: NR USCCB Rating: NR Reel Rating: Disclaimer: Beasts of No Nation is an excellent but deeply disturbing film. It contains graphic depictions of war violence, mutilation, rape, drug use, and molestation—all […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: Early in Genndy Tartakovsky’s Hotel Transylvania 2, Wayne the werewolf’s four dozen children are running through Count Dracula’s luxury resort destroying everything in their path. When confronted, […]
MPAA Rating, PG USCCB Rating, NA Reel Rating, (4 of out 5 reels) “People ask me ‘Why do you risk death?’ For me, this is life.” This opening line wonderfully […]
MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating: NR Reel Rating: (3 of out 5 reels) Sin has a nasty way of poisoning everything it touches, even if it is accompanied by the best of intentions. Black Mass illustrates this point […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: My college chaplain Fr. Rafael Luevano was fond of telling his students that when Jesus refers to mankind as sheep, “it is not a compliment.” Sheep are […]
MPAA Rating, R USCCB Rating, O Reel Rating, (3 out of 5) The heroine of Trainwreck, Amy (played by Amy Schumer), spends her days writing for a pulpy men’s magazine and […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: NR Reel Rating: (2 out of 5) Faith of Our Fathers is similar to Pixar’s Inside Out in telling two parallel stories that intertwine to inform a central theme. Here, […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: (5 out of 5) In a decade filled with endless sequels, remakes, and reboots—Pixar being guilty of this as much as any studio—Inside Out is an absolute […]
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