Posted on April 28, 2020 at 8:19 am
Turner Classic Movies has a great line-up today of movies about angels — and a few devils, too. If you miss them on the broadcast, you can watch them on the TCM app. Highlights: Heaven Only Knows: Robert Cummings is an angel sent to save the soul of a saloon owner played by Brian Donlevy …
Posted on April 27, 2020 at 8:00 am
There are some delightful documentaries about real kids that are ideal family viewing. Spellbound: Middle schoolers compete in in the annual Scripps-Howard Spelling Bee, with feats of astonishing mastery of shockingly difficult words. This exciting competition is also a heartwarming story of America, its diversity of families and its astonishing young people of such …
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Posted on April 23, 2020 at 5:32 am
All aboard for the Yellow Submarine YouTube Dress-Up Sing-A-Long Watch Party! This Saturday, 25th April, join in at 9am PDT (12pm EDT/5pm BST) for the Beatles’ celebration of love, music, and surfacing from strange seas into a beautiful world free of the Blue Meanies! Dress-up as your favorite character from the film and escape with …
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Posted on April 22, 2020 at 4:00 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: | Not rated |
| Profanity: | Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Mild bodily function humor, |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Peril, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | April 20, 2020 |
There are oh so many stories for children about orphans and about people who are sent to live in creepy, mysterious old houses. The Willoughbys, based on the book by Lois Lowry, tweaks those and some of the other conventions of children’s stories, and turns some of them upside down. But one key element remains …
Posted on April 20, 2020 at 8:00 am
Some of my favorite movies are about kids and teenagers making music. Maybe some of these will inspire you to make some of your own. Bandslam: The focus is on the manager of the high school band here, named after a line from absurdist literary giant Samuel Beckett. An exceptionally smart script and some rocking …
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