My Chipmunk Is Bigger Than Yours…
Thinking of spending the Easter holidays on the beach, building sandcastles? Well, you probably won’t manage a creation quite as impressive as this one that appeared on Blackpool beach yesterday …
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The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! review
We review The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! – it’s ideal for pirate-loving kids who aren’t old enough to see the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies
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The Hunger Games review
We review The Hunger Games – it beats the Twilight movies hands down when it comes to the quality of its plot, script, direction and performances
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Happy Mother’s Day: Meet the movies’ best mum: Sigourney Weaver in Aliens!
It’s Mother’s Day in the UK, so I’ve been thinking about the Best Mum In The Movies. There are quite a few memorable mums – Mrs Bates in Psycho, Piper …
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John Carter review
We review John Carter – a fun, feisty, family adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs martian novels
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The Results!
Thank you for your votes, comments, emails and tweets – now here are the results of the 2012 Movies4Kids Awards! (I have put my own personal choices in italics after …
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Red Dog review
Check out our review of Red Dog – a genuine crowd-pleaser from Australia mixing hilarity, heartache and the heartwarming
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Welcome To The 2012 Movies4Kids Awards!
On Sunday night all of Hollywood will be holding its breath as the Academy Awards are announced (you can catch the whole thing in the UK in the middle of …
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The Muppets review
We review The Muppets – a movie for everyone that loved the quirky puppets more than 3 decades ago
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What the Dickens?
200 years ago today, novelist Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth. He may have only lived for 58 years, but in that time he wrote books that have deservedly become …
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The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer
Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s trailer for The Avengers, here’s one for the new Spider-Man movie, starring Andrew Garfield. We have a bit of a longer wait for …
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A Monster In Paris review
We review A Monster In Paris – a beautiful-to-look-at animated story that may amuse older children
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Oscar Nominations!
The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards have just been announced. You can check out the press conference below (and explain to me what on earth actress Jennifer Lawrence is …
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4 Things We Learnt From This Year’s Golden Globes…
Another day, another awards ceremony. On Sunday 15th January it was the turn of the Golden Globes, the awards handed out by the 93 critics and journalists who make up …
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The Darkest Hour
Check out our review of The Darkest Hour – is it any good and how suitable is it for kids?