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    Knives Out-Kids’ Movie Review

    Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is a renowned crime novelist. He’s a successful and wealthy man who’s celebrating his 85th birthday. However, his birthday party doesn’t go so well. He argues with his family members over money, the business, and anything else that annoys him. Later that evening he’s found dead, with his throat slit open. Some think its suicide, others think a family member, or his devoted nurse, Marta (Ana de Armas), committed the crime. However, when Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), the best detective around, decides to solve the case, he unravels the truth about the family and discovers the mystery behind the crime novelists death.

    Rating: 4 out of 5 buckets
    Release Date: November 27, 2019
    MPAA Rating:     PG13
    Best Age Group:     13+
    Sexual Content:     Mild
    Violent/Disturbing Content:     Moderate
    Crude or Profane Language:     Moderate
    Drug and Alcohol Content:     Mild
    Will Kids Like It?     Yes

    Talking Points:

    Sexual Content: Mild

    • There’s talk of masturbation.
    • It’s mentioned that a character had an affair.

    Violent/Disturbing Content: Moderate

    • We see a dead body that’s covered in blood.
    • Characters argue a lot-they punch and slap each other as well.
    • One character vomits numerous times-once on another character’s face.

    Crude or Profane Language: Moderate

    • We hear “f–k,” one time, we also hear “hell,”  “s–t,” “a–shole,” “ass,” “bitch,” “bastard,” and “goddamn.”

    Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild

    • Characters are shown drinking at a party, smoking pot and smoking cigars.
    • There’s talk about a morphine addict.
    • A character is injected with medication several times throughout the film.

    Will Kids Like It? Yes

    Overall this is a fun and entertaining film for a family with teenagers.

    Glass-Kids’ Movie Review

    Superheroes are fictional character’s with different strengths and abilities when using their powers. Psychologist, Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson), believes that some people actually think they have superpowers, though she claims it’s a result of a dysfunctional childhood. So, Dr. Staple gets an opportunity to work with three special subjects; a murderer with a variety of distinct personalities, a man who was nearly drowned as a boy and now thinks he’s indestructible, and Mr. Glass…a man with a bone disease who is extremely intelligent, but the most dangerous of them all.  Glass is the third part of an intense trilogy; Unbreakable, which came out in 2000, and 2016’s sequel, Split.

     

     

    Rating:  2.5 out of 5 popcorn buckets
    Release Date: January 18, 2019
    MPAA Rating:     PG13
    Best Age Group:     16+
    Sexual Content:     None
    Violent/Disturbing Content:     Excessive
    Crude or Profane Language:     Moderate
    Drug and Alcohol Content:     None
    Will Kids Like It?     No

     

    Talking Points:

    Sexual Content: None

    Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive

    • Teenage girls are kidnapped and chained by their wrists in a creepy, abandoned warehouse.
    • There are fist fights, punching, and characters shot to death.
    • A character’s neck is sliced with broken glass, we see lots of blood.
    • A character takes a bite out of a victim. We don’t see the character taking the bite, but we see and hear him chewing and swallowing part of the victim, with blood all over his mouth.
    • We see a boy bullied, and nearly drowns to death.
    • There’s discussion of children being abused by adults.

    Crude or Profane Language: Moderate

    • We hear “s–t,” “b–tard,”  “bitch,” “ass,” “goddamn,” and “p—y,”

    Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild

    • Character’s are shown drinking wine.

    Will Kids Like It? No Overall, this is a creepy and dark movie. Depending on the child, this is appropriate for mature teens.

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    Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Kids’ Movie Review

    “Your mission, should you choose to accept it…” Another impossible mission accepted for Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the IMF team, however this time they join forces with CIA assassin August Walker (Henry Cavill).  A group of terrorists, known as the Apostles, plan a nuclear attack, and it’s up to Ethan and his crew to stop the villains and save the world.  Mission: Impossible — Fallout is the sixth movie in the action franchise…and the most intense.

     

     

     

     

    Rating: 3.5 out of 5 popcorn buckets
    Release Date:     December 4 , 2018
    MPAA Rating:     PG13
    Best Age Group:     13+
    Sexual Content:     Mild
    Violent/Disturbing Content:     Excessive
    Crude or Profane Language:     Moderate
    Drug and Alcohol Content:     Mild
    Will Kids Like It?     Yes

     

     

     

    Talking Points:

    Sexual Content: Mild

    • Kissing.
    • Men make a few suggestive comments in a restroom.

    Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive

    • There are many intense action packed scenes. There are fights with punches, knives and guns.
    • Several characters are injected with a tranquilizer gun.
    • Men are thrown out of a helicopter.
    • Characters are stabbed repeatedly throughout the film.
    • We see injured characters with blood on their face.
    • Several chase scenes in various vehicles… cars, motorcycles and helicopters.

    Crude or Profane Language: Moderate

    • We hear “f—ing,” “h-ll,” “a–,” “d-mn,” “b–ch,” and “s–t.”

    Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild

    • We see characters with mixed drinks at a night club.

    Will Kids Like It? Yes

    Overall this is an entertaining action packed film. Parents need to be aware of the excessive violence and moderate language throughout the film.

     

    Skyscrapper-Kids’ Movie Review

    William (Will) Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson), a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran, changes his career and now assesses security for skyscrapers.  He gets the contract to evaluate the world’s tallest building which is being constructed in Hong Kong.  With his family in an upper level hotel of the skyscraper, Will gets a tour of the 300 story steel, glass, and titanium building to determine if the building is safe and secure. The thing Will doesn’t know is that a terrorist group is plotting to set the building on fire.  So now Will not only needs to secure the new and amazing skyscraper, but he must rescue his family who are trapped inside.

     

     

     

     

     

    Rating: 2 and 1/2 out of 5 popcorn buckets
    Release Date:     October 9 , 2018
    MPAA Rating:     PG13
    Best Age Group:     13+
    Sexual Content:     None
    Violent/Disturbing Content:     Excessive
    Crude or Profane Language:     Moderate
    Drug and Alcohol Content:     None
    Will Kids Like It?     No

     

     

    Talking Points:

    Sexual Content: None

    Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive

    • Characters shoot one another with guns, there is a lot of fighting with punching and kicking.
    • Stabbing with scissors.
    • Explosions.
    • Children  in peril throughout the film.
    • We see bloody open wounds. One character removes a shard of metal from his body.

    Crude or Profane Language: Moderate

    • We hear “f–k,” “h-ll,” “d-mn,” and “sh-t.”

    Drug and Alcohol Content: None

    Will Kids Like It? No

    Overall this an action packed suspenseful drama. This is not the typical family friendly Dwayne Johnson film. Parents need to be aware of  excessive and disturbing violence throughout the movie.

     

     

    The Commuter-Kids’ Movie Review

    Life is good for Michael MacCauley (Liam Neeson). He has a good job as an insurance salesman, he’s happily married, and has a teenage son who’s headed to Syracuse University. Michael has a very regimented daily routine as he commutes on the train everyday in and out of New York. Michael’s life dramatically changes on one of his daily commutes. He learns that he’s going to get fired, just when he needs to pay a lot of money for his son’s college tuition. Feeling very sad and defeated, Michael’s train ride is not going very well, and it eventually gets even worse. A woman on the train offers him $100,000 if he’s willing to find a passenger who doesn’t belong on the train, and he must find this person before the train’s last stop. Michael soon realizes that his wife and son will be in danger if he doesn’t follow the rules. Now Michael has to figure this strange puzzle not only to save his family’s life but also the innocent victims on the train.

     

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    CommuterRating: 3 out of 5 popcorn buckets
    Release Date:     April 17, 2017
    MPAA Rating:     PG13
    Best Age Group:     13+
    Sexual Content:     Mild
    Violent/Disturbing Content:     Excessive
    Crude or Profane Language:     Excessive
    Drug and Alcohol Content:     Mild
    Will Kids Like It?     Yes

     

     

     

    Talking Points:

    Sexual Content: Mild

    • We see Michael and his wife kiss in bed together, they are fully clothed.

    Violent/Disturbing Content: Excessive

    • There are several brutal fight scenes with martial arts, stabbing with knives, punching, hitting and shooting. We see many bloody wounds.
    • We see a man pushed in front of a bus.
    • There’s an intense train crash.

    Crude or Profane Language: Excessive

    • We hear “f–k,” “s–t,” “h-ll,” “goddamn,” and bullsh-t.”.

    Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild

    • There’s a scene where we see a man drinking several pints of beer in a bar.

    Will Kids Like It? Yes

    Overall this is an exciting action packed drama. Having said that it’s very similar to Liam Neeson’s  previous films. Parents need to be aware of the language and excessive violence.

     

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