Category: Family

… But No Brains Take a moment today. Process the reality that Santa with Muscles exists. A human being wrote this movie. Another human being spent money to produce …

Undervalued Parable At the end of All Monsters Attack, 10 year-old Ichiro (Tomonori Yazaki) fights a bully to earn respect. Then, Ichiro torments a sign maker. It’s an oft …

Moderately Strong Joe Young The opening of 1998’s Mighty Joe Young remake clearly comes from Disney. You can tell because it’s not one but two dead mothers. That’s gutsy …

Real Lions Bond with the Human Cast There’s amazing wish fulfillment happening in Gilles de Maistre’s enchanting Mia and the White Lion which may upset some parents but will …

Joe Camp’s Lovable Canine Movie For The Whole Family Benji the dog warmed his way into America’s heart during the 1970s with director Joe Camp’s canine classic, Benji. Released …

Lots of Cracks What a blundering blob of… stuff Nutcracker and the Four Realms is. It’s frantic for attention, slathering the screen in masses of computer generated fantasy, color, …

Bumpy Slappy, the demonic ventriloquist dummy and antagonist of this series, promises kids he’ll do their homework, household chores, and defeat the local bullies. The kids love him. Goosebumps …

Patty Duke Returns to the Gripping Story of Helen Keller Patty Duke returned to the property that made her a household name (and the youngest Oscar winner in history) …

Shopping for Aliens Cactus Flats, Arizona looks awfully plain. Everyone drives the same car. Houses look identical. Each storefront uses the same signage. There’s no identity to this town, …

Mini-Jurassic From Jurassic Park’s hype spawned two direct-to-video dino flicks of note: Roger Corman spit out the hoary, R-rated Carnosaur. Charles Band took the opposite approach; he gave kids …

Hopping Mad Beatrix Potter may or may not have liked this pop entertainment adaptation of her book Peter Rabbit. The world will never know, but certainly, Peter Rabbit has …

Double the Marmalade, Please Paddington 2’s story concerns a fuzzy, ever polite bear desperately trying to buy a birthday present for his aunt. That’s sweet. The whole movie is …