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Junior reviews A Monster in Paris
By Catherine O'Dolan on 11/06/2012 16:34:02
Frankenstein meets Moulin Rouge in this glamorous Gallic caper
romantic city. A Monster In Paris (Cert U) is released on DVD on June 4 www.amonsterinparis.co.ukDon't miss... Junior rounds up of five of the best family filmsPlus The insider's guide to Paris for families
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Five of the best family films
By Junior on 10/04/2012 14:21:49
While away a rainy day with these marvellous movies
WALL - E (U) Human beings can be a mean old bunch. Having cluttered up the planet with all their junk, they’ve escaped on an enormous spaceship. Meanwhile, poor little WALL-E has to clean up the mess, crunching the junk in his tummy and popping it back out in neat cubes. But this...
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Half-term family films: Frankenweenie
By Fiona McKim on 18/10/2012 13:41:48
Tim Burton's animated homage to horror is perfect for Hallowe'en
Just another cheery feelgood flick from Tim Burton, full of sunshine and smiles...Only joking, this is the master of modern macabre we are talking about here. Burton’s latest oeuvre is a noir-ish stop-motion animation shot in gloriously gloomy black
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Junior's Top 100 Children's Books 41-50
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/10/2011 09:20:20
The best children's books in the world, voted by Junior readers
. Adapted again and again as an animation, film, stage play and television series, Kenneth Grahame’s story, which afforded the wildlife human characteristics, brings themes of friendship and morality to children’s books.Buy The Wind In The Willows
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The Golden Nit Has Landed...
By Ciara Munnelly on 01/07/2011 13:19:12
David Walliams, Catherine Tate and other luminaries team up with some of Britain’s most promising talents for a new animation, set to air this weekend
When Tate Movie Project launched an exciting online competition to create a new animation, thousands of children from across the UK took up the challenge and the entries came flooding in. The best drawings were then selected to become part of a
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Beauty & The Beast Diamond Edition
By Catherine O'Dolan on 28/09/2010 16:59:06
The classic fairy tale celebrates two decades with a brand new Diamond Edition
by her beast, winning a stream of accolades, including an Oscar nomination for Best Picture (one of only two animated movies to be nominated, the other being Up). This edition on Blu-ray and DVD, avaiable to buy in high definition from November 1, has
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Brilliant festive picture books to create the perfect Christmas!
By Junior on 11/11/2011 10:19:06
Our selection of brand new and classic picture books that celebrate the festive season
The Snowman Sound Book by Raymond Briggs (Puffin, £6.99)So powerful were Briggs’ illustrations and so evocative was the music in the animated film that it is easy to forget that this classic children’s story is told only in pictures. Here, Briggs
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Meet the real Mee family
By Fiona McKim on 16/07/2012 12:51:06
The family whose story inspired Hollywood film, We Bought A Zoo, talk to Junior about a life transformed by big cats and even bigger dreams
It was when the jaguar escaped that it hit Benjamin Mee exactly how much was at stake. The self-styled zookeeper and father of Milo, 11 and Ella, 9 whose story has inspired the film We Bought A Zoo, had only four days previously moved into a
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Spooky books and movies for children who like a thrill
By Kelly Beswick on 27/10/2010 13:19:30
Nothing thrills like a good Gothic tale, be it a book or a film
creepy.Fear factor 4/10Gothic filmsWitches (Cert PG)Based on Roald Dahl’s book of the same name, this superbly scary offering tells the story of a recently orphaned boy who is taken to England by his grandmother. At the hotel in which they are staying, a
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Hotel Transylvania: A Monster Hit for Hallowe'en
By Catherine O'Dolan on 18/10/2012 14:56:00
With a ghastly cast of ghouls, monsters, vampires and freaks, Hotel Transylvania is a real hoot for Hallowe'en
star-studded, or rather scare-studded, ensemble of Hammer Horror characters, hamming it up in this fun animated movie that taps into the current trend for the horror genre, downscaled for the youngest audience with Tim Burton's Frankenweenie
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