Reviews
DVD Review: Prep & Landing
This holiday season lacks original Christmas programming. It’s either a repeat from 1977 or a holiday spinoff of a popular movie from 10 years ago. Thankfully Prep & Landing is neither one of those. Though it originally aired in 2009, it’s the exception to the rule. Entertaining for both kids and parents, I liked it [...]
PBS Kids Rocks! featuring Ozomatli
My love of Ozomatli is well documented. As I sit and wait patiently for the formal release of an Ozokids album, they are kind enough to tease us with just enough to tide me over. First it was the Happy Feet 2 Video game Soundtrack and now it’s 4 songs on the just released PBS [...]
DVD Review & Giveaway: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse – Space Adventure
As the parent of a two year old, it should come as no surprise that Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is a morning staple in our household. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Space Adventure has been available on my cable’s “OnDemand” feature for a month or two now, but it’s finally getting a proper DVD release. Space Adventure follows [...]
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DVD Review: Prep & Landing
This holiday season lacks original Christmas programming. It’s either a repeat from 1977 or a holiday spinoff of a popular movie from 10 years ago. Thankfully Prep & Landing is neither one of those. Though it originally aired in 2009, it’s the exception to the rule. Entertaining for both kids and parents, I liked it [...]
Read MoreDVD Review: Caldecott Favorites featuring “The Snowy Day”
Because you can only interestedly read Robert McCloskey’s “Make Way for Ducklings” to your toddler or silently prop up Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day” only so many times, Scholastic Storybook Treasures has released a massive DVD set of filmed adaptations of a bunch of classic, Caldecott Medal-winning or nominated children’s book classics. Well, adaptation [...]
Read MoreWatch the New Trailer for “ParaNorman”
Remember the good old days, when family films blasted kids with subliminal messages about fitting in, following orders, and shooting your rabies-afflicted dog? Now it’s all about staying true to yourself and having the strength to go against societal norms, man, which is probably why my son’s room is always a mess. I mean, have [...]
Read MoreWatch the New Trailer for “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax”
We’ve all earned the right to be skeptical anytime Hollywood decides to adapt one of Dr. Seuss’ books (curse you to an eternal grave of flaming rabbit turds, Tim Allen), but based on this new full-length trailer for The Lorax, it looks like we might actually have some Seussical entertainment to look forward to next [...]
Read MoreWatch the New Trailer for Studio Ghibli’s “The Secret World of Arrietty”
We love us some Studio Ghibli around here, and we’ve been waiting with bated breath for their latest offering, The Secret World of Arrietty, to make it to these shores. For awhile, it seemed like Disney was going to pass on an American release for Arrietty, leaving fans to import UK Blu-rays, but they’ve come [...]
Read MoreWatch the New Trailer for Aardman’s “The Pirates!”
Studio Synopsis: Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the [...]
Read MoreDVD Review: “Monte Carlo”
I said that I’d get a quote from my daughter for this review. All I could get out of her was, “I liked it. I’d watch that again.”
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