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5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘The Post’

5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘The Post’

Katharine Graham is a 1970s female newspaper publisher working in a man’s world. Her board at The Washington Post is all male. Her newsroom is nearly all male. And when she chats on the phone with a politician or big wig, it is almost always – you guessed it – with a man. Few people believe she’s qualified, but perhaps ...

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5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Forever My Girl’

5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Forever My Girl’

Liam Page is a world-famous country singer who has everything the world can offer: big houses, beautiful women, and fans who idolize his every move. Yet despite his wealth, he often thinks about Josie, the fiancé he abandoned on their wedding day eight years earlier in their hometown of St. Augustine, La, when he was young and immature. It seems ...

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5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Paddington 2’

5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Paddington 2’

Paddington is a lovable Peruvian bear with a small ego and big heart. But he’s also short on money, and with his Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday just around the corner, he needs some cash for a gift – and fast. So, Paddington does what any intelligent, talking bear in his situation would do: He works a few odds jobs with ...

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5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘The Greatest Showman’

5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘The Greatest Showman’

Phineas is a hard-working husband and father who has a flare for creativity and innovation. Right now, though, he’s unemployed and just needs a job to feed his two daughters in 1800s America. Desperate, he risks everything and borrows $10,000 to open a downtown museum of “oddities.” It’ll have everything not seen in other museums – even wax figures and ...

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5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Darkest Hour’

5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Darkest Hour’

Nazi Germany is on the move, but everyone in 1940 Britain can rest easy. Winston Churchill is finally at the helm as prime minister. If it were only that simple. The courageous and resolute Churchill we’ve learned about in history books is certainly courageous and resolute in Darkest Hour (PG-13) – a biographical movie now in theaters – but he ...

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5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Justice League’

Superman is dead, and the world is mourning – desperately looking for heroes. Batman, of course, is still fighting crime, but even he can’t stop the imminent threat to Earth: an invasion from a monstrous creature known as Steppenwolf and his army of scary-looking Parademons. Never fear, though: Our caped crusader has a plan. “I’m putting together a team of ...

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5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Coco’

5 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Coco'

Miguel is a gifted and energetic boy with big dreams of becoming a famous singer just like his idol, the late Ernesto de la Cruz. Miguel’s family, though, doesn’t share his passion for music. In fact, they hate it. That’s because Miguel’s great-great grandfather – also a singer — traded his family for his musical career, and they haven’t seen ...

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