Tag: Movie review

We’re part of the StreamTeam with Netflix and were compensated for this post.  All thought are our own. It’s almost the end of the school year and the kids are giddy with anticipation of spending more time at home.  The summer’s television schedule sometimes starts out low and ramps up towards the end.  This year we will maintain a more consistent routine and these shows will help us do that.  I’ve also included a couple options to entertain the parents for when they need a moment to relax.

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The trailer for Little Boy and the actual film are quite different.  In a way that’s a good thing because the trailer does not give away key points of the film. The trailer presents a film that focuses on an 8 year old boy whose father goes off to war and the bond that connects them. That aspect of the plot runs all the way through it, mixed in with some childhood bullies, lessons in being different and what life was like in the mid 1940’s. The film is a  mix of drama, comedy and war movie, but those descriptions aren’t the reason for the mixed bag.

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We do some writing for #FandangoFamily and are compensated for this post. No monkeying around, all thoughts are our own. Every Earth Day DisneyNature releases a nature documentary in movie theaters.  For 2015 it’s Monkey Kingdom and for every movie ticket sold in its first week of release $1 will be donated to Conservation International.  That money will go to support Conservation International’s programs in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Cambodia that protect monkey and other endangered animals. Monkey Kingdom was better than my wife thought it would be and kids 10 and under will enjoy it for a variety of reasons.

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On a rainy day we went to the movies to see Home.  Home is the animated story of Oh, an alien whose species invades Earth. The species, the Boov, move all of the humans to special districts where they have live and where you wish you could go about midway through the film.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.  A commoner with a good heart gets these magic slippers made of glass.  She goes to the ball that the Prince is having, they hit it off immediately, but she has to get back to her country house before the stroke of midnight.  Of course you’ve heard it before because  Cinderella is the template that dozens of wannabe classics have vied to become.  The new live action version of Cinderella, despite a rough beginning, largely succeeds because it sticks to the classic material.

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