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Wondering Whether or Not to Let Your Grandchild See Dark Shadows?

By Ranny Levy

Ranny Levy, Founder and President KIDS FIRST! / Coalition for Quality Children's Media http://www.kidsfirst.org

The film Dark Shadows opens this weekend to an eagerly awaiting audience of both Tim Burton and Johnny Depp fans. Based on the ABC daytime show which aired during the late 1960s which generated a cult [...]

The Avengers! It’s All The Rage! Do You Take Your Grandchild?

By Ranny Levy of  KIDS FIRST! www.kidsfirst.org.

Your grandchild is 10 or 11 years old. Do you take him or her to see The Avengers? Always a good question. The Avengers earns this rating for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout and a mild drug reference. How do you make a decision? Our advice: Inform [...]

Must see movie for grandparents: Bully

By:  Dave Lawrence, Chair, The Children’s Movement of Florida

I don’t do movie reviews, but…

If I were a parent – indeed, everyone who cares about children — I would make it my business to see it.

If I were a school superintendent, I’d insist that my top administrators and all my principals see it.

If [...]

What Grandparents Might Like to Know before They Take Their Grandkids to see “The Hunger Games.”

Ranny Levi, Founder and President, KIDS FIRST! / Coalition for Quality Children’s Media

If you haven’t already seen this film and your grandkids are clamoring to go, let us help you make the decision of whether its right for them or not. This film, based on the best-selling book, has been hugely popular with tweens [...]

Chimpanzee – A Grand Movie to Take Your Grandkids to See

By Christopher Gildemeister for Parents Television Council

The latest of DisneyNature’s annual Earth Day releases, Chimpanzee follows the life of Oscar, a baby male chimp. The viewer sees the lives of a pack of chimps – how they eat, how they live, and how they fight others of their kind for territory. After his mother is killed, Oscar [...]

Have You Seen The Movie, Bully, Yet?

According to a New York Times movie critic,  Lee Hirsch’s teen-bullying documentary, released in a total of five theaters in Los Angeles and New York this past weekend, grossed $115,000, according to an estimate from distributor the Weinstein Co.

The $23,000 per-screen average is strong given the film’s genre. Two recent, reasonably successful issue-oriented documentaries, [...]

The Hunger Games – Is it right for your grand kids?

Review by Parents Television Council

Child-friendly? This is a young-adult favorite, but beware, as it features gladiator-style battle sequences that small children may find disturbing.

If you’ve never heard of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy, the immense hype around this film likely came as a big surprise. All of a sudden, teenage (and [...]