The Borrower series of books by Mary Norton were always a favourite of mine as a child. Recently I’ve had the opportunity to watch two movies based on the books – The Borrowers (1997) staring John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, and Mark Williams which I saw streaming on Picturebox, and also…

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This post will intrest no one but myself and a few of the COA crowd (who will no doubt have seen this somewhere else before anyhow), but I don’t care. I’m extraordinarily pumped for this new Avatar: The Last Airbender series. So neh. And if you’d watched the original Last…

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I’ve said it before, but there is too much CGI in modern kids entertainment. In itself I don’t object to CGI animation. In fact some of the finest films of all time were computer generated – specifically every single film produced by Pixar: Up, Wall-E, Incredibles, Monster’s Inc, Finding Nemo,…

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Yesterday on Facebook I was harangued by a couple of so called “friends” for expressing the surprised opinion that despite my expectations going into the cinema, the movie “The Tooth Fairy” wasn’t half bad. Theoretically these two people have a far more developed critical eye than I do. One, Neil,…

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