Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
Plot: The story takes place in the Scotland of 1912. Mary MacDhui (Karen Dotrice) is a little girl whose mother has died. She loves her cat Thomasina more than anything in the world. Her father Andrew (Patrick McGoohan), a veterinarian, is a very rational man who has trouble communicating and tends to see his animal …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Intense peril, characters killed, scary monsters |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2002 |
In honor of this year’s B-Movie celebration, the DVD pick of the week is one of the films they are showing at the festival, the classic George Pal version of the H.G. Wells fantasy. A man named Wells (Rod Taylor) invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the future, where he finds …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
C+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: | Old-fashioned but sometimes spicy language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references, gender-bending, same-sex kiss |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | None |
| Diversity Issues: | All characters white |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2002 |
Once upon a time there was a princess. She discovered that she was not the real princess after all. Her late father had imprisoned the real king and queen. All were now dead, but the real rulers had produced a son, who was now in hiding with two scholars. The princess determined to find him …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
C+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Characters in peril |
| Diversity Issues: | Tolerance of individual differences is a theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2001 |
Most of E.B. White’s elegant language is missing and the animation is nowhere near the Disney level, but the new animated version of “Trumpet of the Swan” (G, some tension and peril) is still a very good family movie with much to enjoy and talk about. As the movie begins, proud and loving trumpeter swans …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
Five exquisitely beautiful sisters dazzle and beguile the boys around them in this movie, set in the mid-1970’s. Amid the idyllic suburban stillness, there are intimations that all is not right. Huge elm trees are diagnosed with Dutch Elm Disease and ordered to be cut down. And the youngest of the Lisbon girls, only 13, …
