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Life at the Movies
Distractions to the idyllic life: Robinson Crusoe
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pveugelaers
The Wild Life (DVD release in North America: November 29, 2016) Warnings—contains scary scenes for the very young In North America this generally innocuous kid’s movie, a three dimensional animation, is called The Wild Life. In others places in the world it is called Robinson Crusoe. Watching it you’ll get the point of calling it…
Do you believe (in dragons)?
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pveugelaers
The story goes like this. In Pete’s Dragon (2016, out now on DVD) a boy named Pete and his mother and father have an accident on the way to a forest park. The boy survives and a dragon rescues him. Pete calls the dragon Elliot, a name taken from a picture book. For the next…
Pets and pegs: some of the “good things”
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pveugelaers
Two weeks ago I could not find my peg bag. I thought I had lost it—forever. The loss reminded me of when I lost my cat. The loss also reminded me of loss in The Secret Life of Pets (2016, out now on DVD). This film is about, as the title suggests, the “secret life”…
Why Return of the Jedi is so good
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pveugelaers
Return of the Jedi (1983) is a good movie to herald in the New Year. Why? Because it is so positive. Yeah, I could nitpick, but Return of the Jedi is so much more. Return of the Jedi may not be as tightly written as the previous episodes in the trilogy, but it does have…
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