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A young pig fights convention to become a sheep dog-or, rather, sheep pig-in this charming Australian family film, which became an unexpected international success due to superior special effects and an intelligent script. The title refers to the name bestowed on a piglet soon after his separation from his family, when he finds .. Read more

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  The Best Family Films Ever Made

  • 06 Feb 2012

  In my family, when I was a child, a family film meant whatever happened to be playing on or around a birthday – which was the only time we were taken to the cinema. Usually it was a Disney movie – they were rereleased on a regular basis back in those dark days before Lovefilm, cable TV, Bluray, DVD, and VHS. (Yes, I’m that old.) In those days we watched a lot of television – but not necessarily a lot of films, and certainly not a lot of “family films” – Read more

  

  The Water Horse

  • 08 Feb 2008

  It may seem pedantic to complain about factual liberties in a film concerning a mythical beastie - the Loch Ness monster, no less. But it's one thing to ask us to imagine the monster living and breathing, and quite another to relocate the loch itself so that it becomes a saltwater estuary. Apparently Hitler's fleet could pop up at any moment (the bulk of the film is set in a flashback to 1941), which is why Capitan Hamilton (David Morrissey) and his men have been billeted on a nearby farm,... Read more

  

  Happy Feet

  • 30 Nov 2006

  In a nutshell, this is March of the Penguins, the animation; though in fact George Miller's film was already well into production before the documentary turned into an unexpected global smash. In the original version of March the penguins talked to each other in French, but as far as I know they didn't also burst into song at the drop of a hat. The very cleverly done mash up over the opening titles here suggests we're in for 'Moulin Rouge on Ice'. Hugh Jackman riffs on Elvis as papa penguin... Read more

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