One of childhood’s most endearing qualities is the ability, of those still progressing through their formative years, to look out into a field and imagine mysterious creatures, and to stand in awe of the great unknown. EPIC, the glorious new film from Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age, Rio) is a […]
Forget the 3D glasses, theater box offices should provide a packet of Kleenex with your movie ticket purchase because there certainly isn’t a shortage of sentimental daddy/daughter plot lines in the multiplexes lately. The Croods continues this heartstrings-a-tugging trend with a none-too-subtle girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, boy […]
It is probably very telling that the most endearing characters in Oz The Great and Powerful, the ones with the most emotional gravitas and who demand an audience’s empathy, are a china doll and a bellhop-clad monkey. Because for all the many fanciful things in this new Oz, a real […]
Our kiddie movie library is pretty massive: dozens of Scholastic Storybook Treasuries, a handful of Gustafer Yellowgolds, several Christmas-y ones like A Year Without A Santa, Miser Brothers’ Christmas, and Rudolph, all the ancient Strawberry Shortcake VHS tapes, Rainbow Brite, Busytown Mysteries, and Annie. So yeah, pretty massive, and also […]
***3/4/13 UPDATE*** Wreck-It Ralph is out on DVD tomorrow and Amazon’s pre-order just got even cheaper. Order now! I used to think that it took a lot to get me jazzed about a Disney film. More than just that Pixar desk light animation title screen. Turns out though, all it […]
We’ve been somewhat spared so far this year. Some would argue this point, but I don’t think it’s been a brutally hot summer here in SE PA. Still, a couple weeks back it got ugly. Real ugly. So ugly that we dragged all the mattresses down the hallway to the […]
Early on in our parenting careers, years before we fully came to know of the quality music available to modern families, we turned to the Sherman Brothers’ soundtracks to the Disney classic films Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins. We’d sing those amazing songs to our young children over […]
With HUGO, The Muppets, and Arthur Christmas all receiving rave reviews and all vying for your family’s movie dollars starting this Wednesday, it begs the question: is November 23, 2011 the greatest family movie opening day ever? That is a kind of hypothetical. The real question that must be answered […]
