Feb 21 2025
You can say a lot of things about movie adaptations, but you can’t deny how great they are for bringing books back into public attention. The Wild Robot totally passed me by when it was first published almost a decade ago, so getting the movie tie-in from a publicist’s box was a nice little surprise. …
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Jan 11 2022
This latest volume in Peyo’s translated oeuvre certainly shows how far we’ve come since the days when borderline offensive jokes about Smurfette were considered, if not outright hilarious, then certainly acceptable consumption for young children. Behold how in the 50 or so intervening years, the Smurfs universe has acquired an entire other village of female …
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Jun 03 2021
Gosh, there are about as many creative contributors — writers, artists and letterers — as there are characters in this slender tho thoroughly amusing collection of vignettes revolving around the thirteen human members of the Loud family and their many friends and intimates. I feel a little bad not being able to list all the …
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Jan 11 2015
Actors: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler Directors: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: DreamWorks DVD Release Date: October 15, 2010 Run Time: 98 minutes Special Features: Animated short film, interviews and behind-the scenes footage, deleted scenes, games This week’s review is How To …
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