Movie Review
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DocumentaryThe Homeschool Awakening
Documentary 2022 / 95 minutes Rating: 8/10 A comic popped up in my social media feed last month, that perfectly summed up this documentary. It…
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AnimatedWall-E
Animated / Dystopian / Family 2008 / 98 min Rating: 9/10 Wall-E is a small robot with a big job – he has to tidy…
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FamilyThe Forge
Family / Christian drama 2024 / 125 minutes Rating: 7/10 Isaiah is a high school graduate, unemployed, still living with his mom, and spending his…
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DocumentaryThe Long Goodbye: The Kara Tippetts Story
Documentary 2019 / 88 minutes Rating: 10/10 “I feel like I’m a little girl at a party whose Dad is asking her to leave early,…
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Movie lists300 movies Christians can love
Great minds think alike, and the same month I was first compiling this article two of those great minds belonged to a missionary in Brazil…
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Articles – Movies12 free must-see docs for Christian families
Documentaries aren’t your thing? Then you haven’t seen these. We’ve got brilliant scholars and scientists sharing, in just a line or two, all their study,…
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AnimatedChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Animated 2023 / 101 minutes RATING: 8/10 Twenty-three years ago, Rocky and Ginger were trying to break out – they had to get off their…
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DocumentaryGender Transformation: the untold realities
Docudrama 85 minutes / 2023 Rating: 8/10 If there are two things this film confirmed for me, it is: Parents need to be our children’s…
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Movie listsAdults, why not try a cinematic time travel experiment?
Here’s an idea for your movie nights going forward – why not watch a standout movie or two from each decade? It’s not that easy…
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Movie listsTen great movies for a girls’ night in
Sometimes there’s nothing like gathering a few girlfriends, breaking out the ice cream (we won’t tell), and settling in for a good flick. Here are…
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Movie listsClassic movies for a “date night in”
Fall is here, and it could be just the night to cozy up with that special someone and a great movie. Here are five of…
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AnimatedTangled
Animated / Family 2010 / 100 min RATING: 9/10 In the original Rapunzel tale, her hair is very long, but still just hair. In Tangled, these…
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Drama12 Angry Men
Drama 1957 / 96 min. Rating: 9/10 A movie that takes place in a single room? All dialogue, and no car chases or explosions? 12…
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DocumentaryMountains after the Flood
Documentary 2023 / 102 minutes Rating: 7/10 The folks who brought us Is Genesis History, have crafted a sequel of sorts. Host Del Tackett is…
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DramaThe Shop Around the Corner
Drama/Romance 99 min / 1940 Rating: 9/10 While Jimmy Stewart is best known for his other Christmas movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, this is the…
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FamilyTwelve
Family / Sports 2019 / 92 minutes RATING: 7/10 Kyle Cooke is an 11-year-old baseball prodigy who’s always the best kid on the field. When…
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FamilyA century of cinema for your family
While most other art forms have been around for centuries and millennia, “motion pictures” have only existed for just over a century. Back in March…
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AnimatedAnimal Farm (1954)
Animated / Drama 1954 / 72 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is George Orwell’s classic dystopian tale brought to the big screen. A farm setting is…
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DramaSarah, Plain and Tall
Drama / Romance 1990 / 98 minutes Rating: 8/10 In 1910, Jacob Witting, a Kansas farmer and widower, places a newspaper ad asking for a…
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DramaAn American in Austen
Drama / Romance 2024 / 84 minutes Rating: 7/10 In the opening scene, we discover that Harriet-the-aspiring-author is struggling with writer’s block, but her alter…
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FamilyMy friend Flicka
Family 1943 / 89 minutes Rating: 7/10 All Ken wants is a colt of his own, and seeing as his dad raises horses, that doesn’t…
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Movie listsOur Top 10 movie reviews of 2023
Here are our most popular movie reviews for 2023, ranked in reverse order – this is what our online readers checked out most often over…
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DramaThe Great Dictator
Drama / War / Black and White 1940 / 125 minutes Rating: 8/10 Long before Hitler adopted it, Charlie Chaplin made the “toothbrush mustache” famous….
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FamilyBack of the Net
Sports / Family 2019 / 86 minutes Rating: 7/10 Cory Bailey is an American teen science nerd whose next stop is a semester-long trip on…
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FamilyThe Legend of 5 Mile Cave
Western / Family 2019 / 90 minutes RATING: 7/10 The Legend of 5 Mile Cave begins with a bang, a fleeing cowboy being shot right…
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DramaSound of Freedom
Drama 2023 / 131 minutes Rating: 8/10 Roberto Aguilar has two beautiful children. The charming woman at his door, Giselle, knows it too. In fact,…
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FamilyNever Give Up
Family / Sports 2023 / 79 minutes RATING: 6/10 This is great family viewing for the peek it offers into the very different world of…
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AnimatedLong Way North
Animated / Family 81 minutes / 2015 RATING: 7/10 It’s the 1880s, the North Pole has yet to be reached, and a Russian explorer dreams…
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FamilySeven Chances
Comedy / Silent 56 min / 1925 Rating: 8/10 This Buster Keaton classic is a silent film, so instead of asking my kids if they…
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FamilyThe 3 worlds of Gulliver
Family / Children’s 1960 / 99 minutes Rating: 7/10 The film manages one upgrade on the book. In the original Gulliver’s Travels, Dr. Lemuel Gulliver is all…
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DramaCourageous
Drama 2011 / 129 minutes Rating: 8/10 Like Fireproof, Facing the Giants and Flywheel before it, Courageous is a sermon wrapped up as a film….
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DramaSabina: Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years
Drama 2022 / 115 minutes RATING: 7/10 The opening scene shows Nazi soldiers at the end of World War II fleeing for their lives, and…
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FamilyThe Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island
Family / Drama 91 minutes / 2007 Rating: 7/10 The Three Investigators started as a book series that ran from 1964-1987 and included more than…
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DramaForever Strong
Drama 109 min / 2008 Rating: 7/10 This one begins with a fall from grace: teen rugby star Rick Penning crashes his car, injuring his…
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DramaNot One Less
Chinese / Drama 106 min / 2000 Rating: 7/10 13-year-old Wei Minzhi is left in charge of a one-classroom elementary school in rural China and…
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Movie listsTop 10 free movies from RedeemTV
Redeem TV is a free Christian streaming service with hundreds and hundreds of films. While a lot of it is older content that’s quite middling…
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Drama2081: Everyone will finally be equal
Drama 2009 / 25 minutes RATING: 8/10 “The year is 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law…
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FamilyThe Red Balloon
Family / Foreign 1956 / 34 minutes RATING: 7/10 This Oscar-winning short film tells the story of a boy and the bright red balloon that…
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DocumentaryHidden Heroes
Documentary / WWII 50 min / 1999 Rating: 8/10 Among the “hidden heroes” of World War II were the thousands of Dutchmen who opened their…
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DramaA Royal Christmas
Drama / Romance 87 minutes / 2014 RATING: 7/10 How would you react if you found out that the wonderful, thoughtful, fun, quiet someone you…
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FamilyGoing to the Mat
Family / Drama 2004 / 92 minutes Rating: 8/10 Jace Newfield is the “new kid” and he’s blind, but what’s causing him the most difficulties…
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FamilyThe Jensen Project
Family 95 minutes / 2010 Rating: 8/10 Claire and Matt Thomspon seem like a couple of average parents, who, along with their 15-year-old son are…
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AnimatedCurious George
Animated / Family 86 min / 2006 Rating: 8/10 George is a monkey whose curiosity always gets the best of him. And in this, the…
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DocumentaryMicrocosmos
Documentary / Nature 80 min / 1996 Rating: 9/10 Have you ever wondered what it’s like for bugs when it rains, getting hit by water…
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DocumentaryDarwin: The Voyage that Shook the World
Documentary 55 minutes, 2009 Rating: 8/10 This must be the most expensive documentary ever made by creationists and it is certainly the best looking. Creation…
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DramaThe Hobbit: the film trilogy
AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 2012 / 169 min (also a 182-min version) Rating: 8/10 THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 2013 / 161 min (also a 186-min version) Rating: 8/10…
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FamilyFree film: The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry
Family / Drama 96 minutes; 2008 RATING: 6/10 In the summer of 1970 three boys develop a friendship with an elderly man, Jonathan Sperry, who…
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DocumentaryEvolution’s Achilles’ Heels
Documentary 2014 / 96 minutes Rating: 10/10 I’ve watched this at least 5 times now, and many sections many more times than that. This is…
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DocumentaryIncredible Creatures That Defy Evolution I, II, and III
Dr. Jobe Martin was once an ardent evolutionist and only became a creationist after getting challenged by one of his students. While he was a…
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AnimatedFree film: The John Newton Story
Animated / Drama 2021 / 30 minutes Rating: 7/10 We know John Newton (1725-1807) as the former slave ship captain who repented and then wrote…
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Articles – MoviesBeyond judging a movie by its poster
Most “family friendly” films are precarious **** Recent research indicates that our brains are more synaptically active while we sleep than they are while we…
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Movie ReviewsGrandma’s Boy
Silent / Comedy 56 min; 1922 Rating: 7/10 While Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are still famous today, there were actually three comedic stars of…
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Articles – MoviesSecond-hand Scriptures: a case against biblical dramas
The “telephone game” goes by many different names but it’s always played the same way. A number of children sit in a circle and the…
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AnimatedThe John Bunyan Story
Animated 2006 / 29 minutes RATING: 8/10 What is likely the most influential novel of all time was written by a man of little education,…
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FamilyUnitards
Family / Comedy 2010 / 107 minutes Rating: 8/10 The producers bill this as “High School Musical meets Napoleon Dynamite” but I’ll have to take their…
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AnimatedThe Toy Story franchise is for adults
Animated / Drama 1995, 1999, 2010, and 2019 / 81, 92, 103, and 100 minutes Rating: 8/10 Animation is usually for kids. And a story…
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FamilyThe Creation Adventure Team
A Jurassic Ark Mystery Family / Children 45 min / 2001 Rating: 7/10 Six Short Days, One Big Adventure Family / Children 38 min /…
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DramaC.S. Lewis: the most reluctant convert
Biographical drama 93 minutes / 2021 RATING: 9/10 If you already know Lewis you’re going to love this film; if you don’t, this film will…
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FamilyThe Incredible Journey
Family 1963 / 80 minutes Rating: 8/10 What do Elsa and Anna, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Pollyanna, and even Huey, Duey and Louie all…
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AnimatedLife at the Pond
Life at the Pond is a series of five videos that have a lot in common with VeggieTales. Both combine simple animation with sophisticated humor…
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DramaTime Changer
Drama / Sci-fi / Family 99 min / 2002 Rating: 7/10 In the year 1890, seminary professor Russell Carlisle proposes teaching morality to the masses…
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DramaHidden Places
Romance / Drama 2005 / 86 minutes Rating: 6/10 In the Depression of the 1930s, the young widow Eliza Wyatt is trying to help her…
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Documentary100+ documentaries to stretch and impress you
Whether you loved school or hated it, most of us were blessed with at least one teacher who showed us learning could be exciting. That’s…
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AnimatedPAW Patrol: The movie
Animated / Children / Family 2021 / 86 min Rating: 8/10 While our kids had never seen the TV series this is based on, we’d…
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DramaExtraordinary
Comedy / Drama 2017 / 88 minutes Rating: 6/10 If you’re looking for a quiet Hallmark-ish film to watch with your spouse, the two of…
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FamilyOdd Squad: The movie
Children’s / Family 65 minutes / 2016 Rating: 7/10 Odd Squad is an organization founded to correct the “strange, the weird, and most especially the…
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FamilyThe Sword and the Rose
Family / Drama 1953 / 92 minutes Rating: 7/10 When I first found this film and read in the description that the hero was Mary…
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DocumentaryCaptivated: finding freedom in a media captive culture
Documentary 107 minutes / 2011 Rating: 7/10 A highlight in Captivated is an epic rant by Professor Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How…
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DocumentaryTrans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender?
Documentary 2021 / 52 minutes Rating: 7/10 Trans mission is a new, free documentary making the case against the “transitioning” of children – the chemical and…
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AnimatedThe Phantom Tollbooth
Animated 1970 / 89 minutes Rating: 7/10 This is a peculiar movie based on a peculiar book, and as such, will have only peculiar appeal…
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AnimatedBalto
Family /Animated 1995 / 78 minutes Rating: 7/10 In 1925, the city of Nome, Alaska was hit by an outbreak of diphtheria, a coughing sickness…
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DramaFreedom
Drama 2014 / 94 minutes Rating: 7/10 Like many a film “inspired by true events,” this isn’t good history but it is pretty decent cinema….
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DocumentaryBeyond the Gates of Splendor
Documentary 96 min; 2005 Rating: 7/10 In 1956 a team of five missionaries were killed by the Waodani tribesmen they were trying to befriend. The…
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DramaThe Jackie Robinson Story
Drama 1950 / 77 minutes Rating 7/10 This is the true story of the first black man to play Major League Baseball, made all the…
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FamilyPride and Prejudice (2003)
Romance/Comedy 104 min / 2003 Rating: 8/10 When a book is adapted for the screen, readers want it to be as close to the book…
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DramaMeet John Doe
Drama 1941 / 122 min Rating: 7/10 Director Frank Capra is probably best known for It’s a Wonderful Life, but that only became his best-known…
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FamilyThe General
Comedy 80 min / 1927 RATING: 8/10 The General is equal parts comedy and action, with just a dash of romance thrown in as well….
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DramaAnd then there were none
Drama 1945 / 97 minutes Rating: 7/10 The film is based on the Agatha Christie mystery of the same name, one of just three English…
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FamilyThe Fighting Prince of Donegal
Drama / Family 1966 / 110 minutes Rating: 7/10 Halfway through The Fighting Prince, I figured out why I was enjoying this so much, and why…
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FamilyThe Runner from Ravenshead
Children’s film 81 minutes / 2010 Rating: 7/10 Both the charm and the kitsch of this film come from the producers’ decision to fill all…
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DramaA Bear Named Winnie
Drama 90 min / 2004 Rating: 7/10 This is the (mostly) true story of Winnie, the bear that inspired A.A. Milne’s much loved Winnie the…
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AnimatedAdventures in Odyssey: The Knight Travellers
Animated / Children’s 17 x 27 min episodes / 1991-2003 Rating: 7/10 Back in 1987, Focus on the Family started a radio drama series for…
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DocumentaryA Return to Grace: Luther’s life and legacy
Docudrama 2017 / 106 minutes Rating: 8/10 What makes this a must-see is its unique mix of drama and documentary. Other great Luther documentaries exist,…
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DramaThe Adventures of Robin Hood
Drama/Action 101 min / 1938 Rating: 8/10 Aside from a little medieval Roman Catholicism in the character of Friar Tuck (for instance, asking a woman…
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FamilyBabes in Toyland
Family /Musical 1961 / 105 minutes Rating: 7/10 Babes in Toyland stars all your children’s nursery rhyme favorites. There’s Little Jack Horner, Simple Simon and the pieman,…
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FamilyThe Sign of Zorro
Family / Drama 1958 / 90 minutes Rating: 8/10 Is Zorro a Spanish version of Robin Hood? The Spanish California of the 1800s stands in…
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DramaThe Song
Drama / Musical 2014 / 116 minutes RATING: 9/10 The Song destroys all the expectations we have for Christian films. It has great acting, a…
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DramaWoodlawn
Drama 123 minutes / 2015 Rating: 10/10 Sports movies have their own formula. The orchestral music swells, mud spatters, bodies get thrown to the turf,…
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AnimatedLost and Found
Animated / Family 24 minutes / 2013 Rating: 8/10 This short film made my girls cry and that’s okay. It is a classic boy meets…
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DramaThe Man in the Iron Mask
Drama 1939 / 112 minutes Rating: 6/10 Based loosely on the Alexander Dumas story of the same name, it takes place 20 years after Dumas’…
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AnimatedLarryboy and the Fib from Outerspace
Children’s / Animated 30 min / 1999 RATING: 7/10 Larry-Boy is no ordinary hero: first off, he’s a cucumber, and secondly he’s got super suction…
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AnimatedWallace and Gromit: four short films
Animated / Comedy 1989-2008 / 114 minutes RATING: 8/10 It’s been 35 years now, since student filmmaker Nick Park crafted his leading man out of…
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FamilyThe Defense of New Haven
Children’s 2016 / 82 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is a wonderfully bizarre adventure: a steampunk Christian allegoric comedy adventure, with every character played by a child…
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AnimatedThe Secret World of Arrietty
Animated / Family 2012 / 94 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is a Japanese animated adaptation of the much loved English book series, The Borrowers. Arrietty is…
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FamilySpace Buddies
Children’s film 2009 / 84 minutes RATING: 7/10 If the sequel is never as good as the original, then what kind of expectation should we…
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AnimatedThe Gruffalo
Animated / Family 27 min / 2009 Rating: 8/10 How can a mouse meet up with a hungry fox, snake, and owl, and live to…
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AnimatedThe Boxcar Children
Animated / Children’s 2013 / 81 minutes Rating: 7/10 The Boxcar Children is the first title in a popular and still expanding children’s series of…
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FamilyAntboy
Family / Superhero 2013 / 77 minutes RATING: 7/10 Pelle is a 12-year-old boy who goes entirely unnoticed at his school…except when he ruins a…
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AnimatedWinnie the Pooh
Animated / Children / Family 63 min, 2011 Rating: 8/10 Our favorite silly little bear starts his newest adventure in bed, waking up only at…
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DocumentaryFREE FILM: Babies are still murdered here
Documentary 2019 / 102 minutes Rating: 8/10 If you were told the pro-life movement is made up of two groups that don’t always get along,…