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Despicable Me
By Catherine O'Dolan on 15/10/2010 17:12:03
Why do the bad guys always have all the fun? Meet Gru and the gang from Despicable Me.
unscrupulous too! It's time for Gru to pull his biggest heist of all time: he is going to steal the moon!Now the contest of evil versus, well, greater evil begins, and as Gru begins to show his gentler side as he adopts three little orphan girls, Margo, Edith
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Coraline
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 14/04/2010 18:58:50
Haunting odd-ball tale comes to life on screen
YES, THAT’S CORALINE not Caroline, as this feisty young girl will be the first to correct you. This latest 3D animation centres around an eerie old house where Coraline has just moved with her parents. Based on the book by Neil Gaiman and directed
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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
breed of Disney Princesses who believed in girl power. She even reads books! Can you imagine? Certainly something that her would-be love interest, Gaston, does not believe to be an appropriate pursuit for a young woman, when she could be pandering to his
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Easter movie reviews: RIO
By Catherine O'Dolan on 14/04/2011 13:32:38
Indulge in the vibrant spirit of the South American carnival with this fun-packed animation
and snowy Minnesota. As luck would have it, his cage falls out of the van, and he is taken in by a kindly bespectacled little girl, Linda. Fast forward 15 years to a grown-up Linda and a domesticated Blu, who can perform all manner of clever tricks, like
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Arthur Christmas
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 13/12/2011 17:30:39
Meet Santa's youngest son in this Christmas heart-warmer
akin to the Starship Enterprise. So where does Arthur fit in? He’s Santa’s enthusiastic but dim-witted youngest son, who is devastated when he finds out that one little girl has been overlooked and will awake on Christmas morn with no gift from Santa
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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
the universe. Will WALL-E be able to get his girl?
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Easter Movie Reviews: Rango
By Catherine O'Dolan on 14/04/2011 14:56:50
Johnny Depp plays homage to Clint Eastwood and the Wild West in a quirky animation Rango
by the creaking of the saloon sign, balls of tumbleweed sweeping over bleak terrain) though it may be more of an acquired taste for some young audiences. At our viewing, a group of seven-year-old girls walked out in disgust (“It's rubbish”), while a gleeful six
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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
and Paranorman. More mild mayhem than morbid macabre, this is essentially a coming of age movie for little Bat girl, Mavis, daughter of Dracula (voiced charmingly by Selena Gomez) who turns 118 and yearns to see the world – or at least venture into the local
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Films Reviews 2012: Paranorman
By Catherine O'Dolan on 23/10/2012 14:40:00
Get set for a spooky animation featuring a young lad who's far from normal
suspect the town dwellers sort of deserve their fate!): can the antihero triumph? From the makers of Coraline, this stop-motion animation has a similarly spooky, off-beat appeal to the movie about the girl with the button eyes (and some hair-raisingly hide
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Junior's 2008 movie reviews
By on 23/01/2009 16:47:12
Junior looks back on the last 12 months of film for children
. But, like all great romances, this one doesn’t run smoothly. First EVE tries to blitz him with her powerful beams and then she’s swept away to the far reaches of the universe. Will WALL-E be able to get his girl? WALL-E is Cert U. See www2.disney
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