Will Sacks, in Annie, learns to face a problem he has. As he does, he’s edging towards a new direction. Maybe people don’t like to face problems. It’s more comfortable and easy to avoid. I’d rather listen to a song then perhaps realize I better look into something. Sometimes, problems take years to confront, especially…

Triggers to happiness, in Trolls (2016), are music, hugs, love, friendship, community and positivity. And parties. It’s not that the trolls are born happy. They would sooner be happy than not. So they turn on the parties, turn up the music, hug every hour, and have meaningful friendships, and they love each other in a…

Another of the family films with a world beneath the world, The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) is decently filmed, well-told, with good visual effects. Some scenes are too scary for very young folk and some magic may be off-putting. The film is ten years old so is available for home viewing. It’s one of the better…

Year: 2016, DVD released February 28, 2017 (North America) In my previous post on Doctor Strange I described the spiritual journey that this film raises, just the spiritual journey. In today’s post I am asking, first of all, what sort of spirituality do we have with Doctor Strange? It has been described as sorcery. Somewhere…

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