‘THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY’

Rating: PG-13 for “extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images.

What it’s about: An unassuming hobbit is added to a company of dwarfs as they march off to recover a treasure from a dragon.

The kid attractor factor: Dwarfs, wizards, dragons and goblins. And a hobbit, in over his head.

Good lessons/ bad lessons: “True courage is not knowing when to take a life, but when to spare one.”

Violence: Archery and swordplay, with beheadings and dismemberments.

Language: Quite clean.

Sex: None at all.

Drugs: Wine is consumed, along with lots of pipe-weed.

Parents’ advisory: More graphically violent than “The Lord of the Rings,” probably too intense for the very young — OK for 10 and older.

‘HYDE PARK ON HUDSON’

Rating: R for brief sexuality.

What it’s about: President Franklin Roosevelt entertains the King and Queen of England at his mother’s estate while carrying on an affair with a distant cousin.

The kid attractor factor: “Kings Speech”-era history, played for laughs.

Good lessons/ bad lessons: Great figures of history have their unseemly human side.

Violence: None.

Language: Reasonably clean.

Sex: Glimpsed nudity, implied intimacy.

Drugs: Alcohol and cigarettes are consumed in copious quantities.

Parents’ advisory: A history lesson that teens will get more out of than younger children, suitable for 13-and-older.

This guide, compiled by Orlando Sentinel film critic Roger Moore, is published here every Friday. It should be used with the MPAA rating system for selecting movies suitable for children. Films rated G, PG or PG-13 are included, along with R-rated films that may have entertainment or educational value for older children with parental guidance.