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Tag: Family
Hanukkah Movie Marathon: Up!
Comedy, 95 Minutes, 2009
[My daughter recently discovered that all her Jewish friends go the movies on Christmas day. She came up with the idea of watching a movie for each night of Hanukkah. This is the eighth and final one!]
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Hanukkah Movie Marathon: A Christmas Story
Comedy, 95 Minutes, 1983
[My daughter recently discovered that all her Jewish friends go the movies on Christmas day. She came up with the idea of watching a movie for each night of Hanukkah. This is number seven! Apparently we’re perfectly fine celebrating Hanukkah by watching a Christmas classic.]
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Hanukkah Movie Marathon: Fantastic Mr Fox
Adventure, 100 Minutes, 1991
[My daughter recently discovered that all her Jewish friends go the movies on Christmas day. She came up with the idea of watching a movie for each night of Hanukkah. Also, by accident, we’ve apparently watched them in chronological order. This is number six!]
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Movie Review: Mirror Mirror
Fantasy, 106 Minutes, 2012
Do you know the story of Snow White? No? Don’t worry – neither do the people who made this movie. There’s a mish-mash of references to the original story and the Disney version but mostly it’s stuff that they just plain made up. Like most family films today there are a lot of modern references and a healthy dose of feminism.
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Movie Review: We Bought a Zoo
Family Drama, 124 Minutes, 2011
Benjamin has recently lost his wife, the love of his life, to illness. Dylan, his teenage son, is a moody, artistic teenager who’s pulling away from him and having trouble at school. Rosie, his seven-year old daughter, is insanely cute, totally precocious and straight from the Hollywood breeding tanks. When Dylan is expelled the family decides to try for a new start and, almost accidentally, falls into buying a run-down zoo on the verge of losing its license.
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Movie Review: Brave
Fantasy, 93 Minutes, 2012:
Pixar makes good movies. Period. At some point, I’m sure, some relatively minor decision will snowball out of control and they’ll release a steaming pile of crap. Something that will taint their good name and become the butt of jokes for an entire generation of movie fans. The Internet will rip it to shreds with perverse glee. It will be mentioned in the same breath as “Howard the Duck” [IMDB] and “Leonard Part 6” [IMDB].
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Movie Review: The Corpse Bride
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Movie Review: The Lorax
Family, 86 Minutes, 2012
My 10 year daughter loved this movie. I didn’t. Like other attempts to enbiggen Dr. Suess to feature-lengths it’s too self-indulgent with its own ideas and loses the soul of the source material. “The Lorax” was a simple story with some very basic themes – most of which seem to have been lost in this translation.
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Movie Review: John Carter
Sci-fi/Adventure, 132 Minutes, 2012
I’ve always been a big fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter stories ever since I first read them as a teenager. Pulp fiction (the genre, not the film) has always been a favorite and Burroughs is one of the best. I also truly adore turn-of-the-(last)-century science-fiction. Reading about the advances that authors from the pre-transister-age invented has always been a joy. So when I found out that Disney was going to celebrate the centenary of the character (yes, John Carter is 100 years-old this year) with a big-budget blow-out written and directed by Andrew Stanton (“Wall-E” [IMDB], “Finding Nemo” [IMDB]) I was more than a little interested.
