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Family Films
November 13, 2012
by SDG
The second collection of Pixar short films is available today in Blu-ray/DVD.
September 10, 2012
by STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
Pixar’s dazzling father-son fish story returns to the big screen in eye-popping 3-D.
July 12, 2012
by STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
The sub-zero heroes are back … for fourths.
June 19, 2012
by STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
Family is king in the pioneering animation studio’s first fairy tale, a rare mother-daughter story that charts an unconventionally traditional moral path.
June 12, 2012
by SDG
The trouble with spoilers … and the magic of discovery.
April 26, 2012
by STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
New movie offers swashbuckling, stop-motion silliness from Aardman Animations, the creators of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run .
April 20, 2012
by STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
Amazing documentary footage highlighting the winsome and wild sides of chimp society is undermined by pedestrian narration.
March 30, 2012
by STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
Tarsem Singh’s visually stunning Snow White movie is a revisionist fairy tale that blends sweetness with occasional rude humor.
March 9, 2012
by Tim Drake
Technologist Rebecca Taylor and Film Critic Steven Greydanus
February 13, 2012
by STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
There’s a world of wonder under the floorboards in this gentle, wholesome family-film delight.
November 22, 2011
by STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
It's time to play the music: The Muppet magic is finally back in this refreshingly old-school family film.
November 21, 2011
by STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
Darkness falls on Antarctica: The dancing-penguin sequel is the grimmest animated film in years, a global-warming disaster movie rife with problematic themes.
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