Birdman, Boyhood ummmm....who cares? What we care about is what those of us 17 and younger think are the best in film! That's what the Fanlala Pick Awards are all about. Nearly 8,000 teen and tween movie lovers voted and felt the most love for The Fault in Our Stars. The romance won every category in which it was nominated: Live-Action Movie, Couple (Shailene Woodley's Hazel and Ansel Elgort's Augustus) and Soundtrack Song for "Boom Clap." Here are the rest of the winners:
Pick Live-Action Movie of the Year: The Fault in Our Stars
Pick Animated Movie: Big Hero 6
Pick Actor: Teo Halm, Earth to Echo
Pick Actress: Elle Fanning, Maleficent
Pick Scene Stealer: Blake Cooper, The Maze Runner
Pick Hero: Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), The Maze Runner
Pick Villain: President Snow (Donald Sutherland), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Pick Musical: Into the Woods
Pick Soundtrack Song: "Boom Clap,...
Pick Live-Action Movie of the Year: The Fault in Our Stars
Pick Animated Movie: Big Hero 6
Pick Actor: Teo Halm, Earth to Echo
Pick Actress: Elle Fanning, Maleficent
Pick Scene Stealer: Blake Cooper, The Maze Runner
Pick Hero: Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), The Maze Runner
Pick Villain: President Snow (Donald Sutherland), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Pick Musical: Into the Woods
Pick Soundtrack Song: "Boom Clap,...
- 2/18/2015
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
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Fifty Shades of Grey is already crushing it at the box office, and Et nailed down which state is the hungriest for some overt, on-screen romance.
Video: Fifty Shades Trailer
You might expect big coastal state's like California or New York to have the longest lines for the theater, but, currently the state most anxious to see the movie is Mississippi. The Hospitality State is selling nearly four times more tickets than the rest of the country.
Regardless of where people are going to see the movie, the experts are expecting massive crowds to show up.
"Some estimates are putting it at $95 million for an opening," Fandango.com's Tara McNamara told Et. "But we at Fandango have talked to the studio and that number looks more like $50-$60 million."
According to McNamara, the romantic drama is sure to be the highest-selling R-rated movie in Fandango history thanks, in a large part, to Mississippi...
Video: Fifty Shades Trailer
You might expect big coastal state's like California or New York to have the longest lines for the theater, but, currently the state most anxious to see the movie is Mississippi. The Hospitality State is selling nearly four times more tickets than the rest of the country.
Regardless of where people are going to see the movie, the experts are expecting massive crowds to show up.
"Some estimates are putting it at $95 million for an opening," Fandango.com's Tara McNamara told Et. "But we at Fandango have talked to the studio and that number looks more like $50-$60 million."
According to McNamara, the romantic drama is sure to be the highest-selling R-rated movie in Fandango history thanks, in a large part, to Mississippi...
- 2/14/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
The racy relationship drama Fifty Shades of Grey is projected to have a stellar $60 million opening, but is it the sex or the romance that's attracting people's interest?
The hugely popular novel that the film is adapted from is filled to the brim with explicit sex -- mostly consisting of hardcore Bdsm.
Video: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Gets Even Sexier With More S&M in Second Trailer!
It's been established that the film will be toning down some of the more graphic encounters, but it's still to be seen how far the film will need to stray from its source material.
The advertising has focused more on their seduction and burgeoning relationship than it has on their kinky sex. In fact only 18 seconds of all the ads released have even hinted at sex or nudity.
News: The Iconic 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Scene That Didn't Make the Cut
According to Fandango correspondent [link=nm...
The hugely popular novel that the film is adapted from is filled to the brim with explicit sex -- mostly consisting of hardcore Bdsm.
Video: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Gets Even Sexier With More S&M in Second Trailer!
It's been established that the film will be toning down some of the more graphic encounters, but it's still to be seen how far the film will need to stray from its source material.
The advertising has focused more on their seduction and burgeoning relationship than it has on their kinky sex. In fact only 18 seconds of all the ads released have even hinted at sex or nudity.
News: The Iconic 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Scene That Didn't Make the Cut
According to Fandango correspondent [link=nm...
- 2/10/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. Yep, I’m one of Those Parents. One of Those Parents who are pushing guiding their kids toward success, encouraging their kids to get more involved, take leadership roles, do more charity work, take the Sat again to try and get a better score – all in an effort to get them into A Top University. One of Those Parents who you, with the younger kids, say you’ll never be. I’m here to tell you you’re wrong. The movie Admission highlights this phenomenon in a completely original way. Tina Fey plays a career-driven admissions officer at Princeton, reputed to be the hardest school to get...
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- 3/21/2013
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. Movies today are more magical than ever before. That’s because this year, more than a few of them are literally about magicians who make magic. Last week’s blockbuster Oz the Great and Powerful is an imaginative movie about a traveling carnival magician who uses his sleight of hand to wow a new world, not to mention a couple of beautiful witches. The result? He becomes the ruler of the land. On the other hand, ruling Las Vegas as the headliners at Bally’s destroys the 30-year "magical friendship" of magician duo Burt and Anton in this week’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,...
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- 3/14/2013
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. Take a look at the hottest directors in Hollywood: J.J. Abrams (46), Joss Whedon (48), even wunderkind Matthew Vaughn is about to turn 43. Yep, the guys making movies that will resonate with Gen Y and Gen Z are solidly middle-age. So, it’s not a surprise that they’re really trying to tell fresh versions of the movies that resonated with them in their youth. Whedon broke box office records last summer by bringing our favorite superheroes together in The Avengers. Vaughn’s Kick-Ass franchise is a fresh take on the superhero genre. Abrams is about to extend the mother of all franchises:...
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- 2/28/2013
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. This Sunday’s Academy Awards caps the movie award season in which we’ve heard the same movies and same actors’ names bandied about as “the best” for months. However, the winners of one awards event are quite different: the Pick Awards honors the best in film from a kid’s point of view. With more than 31,000 votes cast, this year’s KidsPickFlicks.com Pick Award winners really make a statement. Zachary Gordon won Pick Actor for the second year in a row for his portrayal of lovable scamp Greg Heffley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. It may surprise some that Dog...
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- 2/21/2013
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. For better or worse, The Twilight Saga is over. The kids from Forks brought in more than $3.3 billion at the box office, which means one thing: the race is on in Hollywood to find the next big fantasy romance. Over the next few weeks, the multiplex will see the first two offerings and, as the mother of a tween girl, I’m holding my breath that the movies will be more Chivalrous Edward than Pouty Bella. By subbing out brain-eating zombies for vegan vampires, this week's Warm Bodies is what you might call Twilight for boys. Both films revolve around an against-all-odds romance where a human and a...
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- 1/31/2013
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. As fairy tales have evolved through the years, children’s publishers have cleaned them up. As originally written in the 1800s, many are gory, grotesque and heinous, and served as cautionary tales intended to keep kids on the straight and narrow. While it’s unlikely in 2013 that Hansel and Gretel’s father would abandon them in the woods so he has more food to eat with his new wife, many fairy tale themes involving stepfamily problems, temptation and disobedience do still resonate today. So when Tim Burton’s semi-scary PG version of Alice in Wonderland broke into the top 10 highest...
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- 1/24/2013
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. Last year was so rife with fantastic family films that the expectation level for 2013 is high. Here are the Top 6 Most Anticipated Family Films, as voted by Fandango users. No. 1: Despicable Me 2 (27%) Some might find it surprising to learn families are most anxiously awaiting the further adventures of supervillain Gru and his three adopted daughters, but those would also be the people who never saw the original. Despicable Me is cleverly written, surprisingly heartwarming, and unexpectedly hilarious. Plus, nobody maximizes 3D like Gru’s adorable minions. (July 3) No. 2: Monsters University (18%). A...
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- 1/17/2013
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. The Golden Globe nominations are gobsmacked. No offense to Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, but how could the uproarious This Is 40 Not be nominated for Best Musical/Comedy when it’s easily the funniest movie of the year? The truth of filmmaking is that it’s tough to please everyone with a comedy. We laugh when we see something that is surprising, and laugh harder when it’s surprisingly true. Pete and Debbie’s midlife crisis has laugh-out-loud moments that most American Gen Xer parents can appreciate. Of course, it's R-rated, meaning This is 40 is Not, absolutely Not okay for kids. Then...
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- 12/20/2012
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and co-founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. I’m no Lord of the Rings fan but it was really exciting to see The Hobbit with my teenage son last night. I’d never seen Peter Jackson’s original trilogy, but my son watched every one. And so, in a unique reversal of roles, my son was able to share a film series that he loves while we enjoyed a brand-new movie in the series together. Usually, parents are sharing a beloved childhood movie/toy/TV series with their kids through a "reboot" – just look at some movies coming out next year: The Lone Ranger (July 3), The Smurfs 2 (July 31) and Mr. Peabody and Sherman (Nov. 8). And...
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- 12/13/2012
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. When it comes to school, I’m not sure if kids today are getting a better education, but they’ve definitely got it a lot easier. They have laptops, the Internet and backpacks on wheels. We had typewriters, microfiche and a backache. And now, Hollywood is even helping to make the coursework easier. A slew of books off the literary canon are hitting the multiplex in A-list glory, making the required reading list a piece of cake. Les Miserables opens Christmas Day; what I wouldn’t have given to have assistance slogging through the Victor Hugo novel when I was 16. I remember the story of Jean...
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- 12/5/2012
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The Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. If you haven’t taken your teen to see Lincoln or your tween to see Life of Pi, you should. Just expect some push-back. To a kid, these two brilliant films may be the cinematic equivalent of Brussels sprouts. As an adult, we grow to like things that are nutritious. At a fancy restaurant, grown-ups salivate over roasted beets, marinated artichokes and bone marrow flan – menu items that send any self-respecting 9-year-old into dry heaves. Similarly, as we age we typically develop a more sophisticated film palate – which is why those over 35 are less likely to appreciate Adam Sandler or anything...
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- 11/30/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. This year at the movies, Santa is making an appearance but not leaving many gifts. Rise of the Guardians is the lone holiday kids’ film from now until the end of the year. The only other solid children’s fare available is December’s Monsters, Inc. re-release in 3D. Not cool, Hollywood. Parents rely on kid-appropriate films to endure weeks of no school and entertaining grandparents and cousins. Last year, Hollywood presented families with no less than six PG films including Arthur Christmas, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Hugo. Once kids are old enough to be able to go places with...
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- 11/21/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. After telling my preteen daughter Riley for years that No, she may not see The Twilight Saga movies, I’m reversing my course. Why am I caving? Peer pressure. At least that’s why I took the time to reconsider. As you may know, Everybody gets to see the Twilight movies. Do you know Everybody? Everybody gets to go the mall, trick or treat, wander the neighborhood, traipse through the amusement park and go to the beach with no parental supervision. Parenting is much tougher once Everybody gets involved. But now that Riley is in middle school, I believe she’s “matured” enough not to...
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- 11/15/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. It’s not your father’s James Bond in Skyfall. That’s only because, actually, James Bond is more like your father. Agent 007 is less like an uber-cool, hip gadget guru and more like a physically deteriorated gray-hair who needs a 12-year-old to update his iPhone. In Skyfall, Bond is broken physically and mentally and returns to MI6 as an old-school field agent in a new technologically advanced world of spies. The movie really presents the question: is new always improved or is there value in the way things used to be done? But like our Bond, unfortunately, the film itself stumbles to...
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- 11/9/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. Here’s a bold prediction: Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph will be the biggest video game movie of all time. The reason I’m able to go out on a limb is because the limb is attached to a tree trunk in the forest of felled video game adaptations. Movies based on video games are generally a Fail (cue the sound of Pac-Man dying). Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Max Payne and Doom prove the near impossibility of re-creating the exhilarating gaming experience as a passive viewing activity. Even the rare video game adaptations that muster financial success, like the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and...
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- 11/1/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. I don’t see scary movies because I know that I suffer from a disorder known in medical circles as "overactive imagination." I’m an adult, but this malady has plagued me since I was at least five years old. My 11-year-old daughter Riley suffers from the same affliction and will lay awake all night after watching Disney Channel’s My Babysitter Is a Vampire. Until my son was 6, he was positive there was a killer giraffe with red eyes hiding in his closet. This week in Entertainment Weekly, senior writer Anthony Breznican suggests we are creating a generation of wussies by not letting...
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- 10/25/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. TV has long been using primetime to document the evolution of the American family. Leave It to Beaver was a relic by the time The Brady Bunch started blending families. Single mother Murphy Brown set off a political firestorm and today Dan Quayle must be absolutely apoplectic over The New Normal, about a gay couple making a baby with a surrogate single mother. TV is reflecting the new family dynamics and, in doing so, makes these "alternative" families more accepted. It’s kind of strange, then, that "family films" haven’t been as progressive. The most radical is perhaps...
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- 10/18/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. Kids don’t watch black-and-white movies. They're right up there with VHS, Pac-Man and MySpace – ancient relics of the olden days. This may present a marketing challenge for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, a movie whimsically made in black and white in the spirit of horror movies of the past. However, if kids are to appreciate and enjoy the cinematic greats, they’re going to need to get past this black-and-white issue. The normal way to break through is films like Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life – but even those films can be a tough sell due to their...
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- 10/4/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. What would you do if you encountered a vampire or a werewolf in real life? Personally, I would run and scream in terror. I believe 8- to 12-year-olds would ask the monsters to join their Xbox tournament. Teens, or course, would try to date them. Movies seem to be on a mission to humanize monsters and make them unfrightening. In Friday’s Hotel Transylvania, Count Dracula is a helicopter parent and drinks fake-y “Blood Beaters” because killing a human would “set monsters back hundreds of years.” In The Twilight Saga (tickets on sale Monday for Breaking Dawn Part 2), Bella...
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- 9/27/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. John Hughes is dead. Cameron Crowe grew up. Without a voice summing up the modern high school experience, today’s teens are lacking a generationally defining movie. I’m not talking about “the movies of their generation” – the Class of 2013 has had a rich cinematic experience with Twilight, Harry Potter, Marvel, The Dark Knight and Pixar films. But what is this millennium’s Pretty in Pink? Or Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Or Say Anything… or Ferris Bueller's Day Off or The Breakfast Club? The 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds of the 1980s identified and connected with...
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- 9/20/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. A parent venturing into a theater with a toddler just signed up for 90 minutes of "shush"-ing, "be still"-ing, "I’m sorry"-ing, and shuttling in and out of the theater. Even if it’s Finding Nemo, little guys just can’t sit still. As an avid moviegoing mother of a 2-year-old, I am ecstatic about new release The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure. This is the rare Mommy and Me movie that is actually made for tots. It may be the only intentionally interactive film that asks the audience to stand up in the theater, dance and sing – kind of like The...
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- 8/30/2012
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Family Film Mom is a weekly column about family entertainment for parents with kids (and kids with parents) by Tara McNamara, the editor and founder of KidsPickFlicks.com. As parents, we take our kids to see movies for an amusing diversion that hopefully gives us two hours of peace in a cool, relaxing theater. The last thing any mom or dad wants is to have that two-hour experience extend into 3 a.m. when a crying child screams that the film’s villain is coming to get them. Kids don’t appreciate nightmares, either. At KidsPickFlicks.com, “too scary” is the No. 1 complaint kids have about movies. So, as ParaNorman, Hotel Transylvania and Frankenweenie roll out over the next few weeks, parents may wonder: why do filmmakers even make scary movies for kids?...
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- 8/16/2012
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her take on movie adaptations of books. Amongst the many superhero movies flooding the cineplex, something is a little more super about Captain America: The First Avenger. Unlike the other flawed personalities who gain powers through happenstance, Steve Rogers is selected to be transformed into the military's secret weapon because he's already a super guy. Rogers stands up to bullies, puts others' needs before his own, and doesn't curse. In fact, director Joe Johnston keeps the entire movie a profanity-free zone. Such a small omission is actually a great consideration, especially because lately curse words are used as an in-road to reach teenagers. Studios have deduced that...
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- 7/22/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her take on movie adaptations of books. J.K. Rowling famously insisted that if her best-selling children’s book series “Harry Potter” was to be made into movies, she would need creative control. Her high standard: stick to the written word. With some 450 million books sold, it seems Rowling was true to her audience. The belief is that when a movie is made from a book, it inspires people to read the books. In the case of, say, Twilight, I’d agree: the film’s monster opening despite bad reviews made millions wonder what they were missing out on. In the case of Where the Wild Things Are, the film pulled a story from a 37-page picture book, millions wanted to...
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- 7/15/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her take on movie adaptations of books. J.K. Rowling famously insisted that if her best-selling children’s book series “Harry Potter” was to be made into movies, she would need creative control. Her high standard: stick to the written word. With some 450 million books sold, it seems Rowling was true to her audience. The belief is that when a movie is made from a book, it inspires people to read the books. In the case of, say, Twilight, I’d agree: the film’s monster opening despite bad reviews made millions wonder what they were missing out on. In the case of Where the Wild Things Are, the film pulled a story from a 37-page picture book, millions wanted to...
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- 7/15/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her take on the movie industry changing historical facts to tell stories. With America celebrating its independence this weekend, the multiplex has a multitude of patriotic choices in film. That’s because Hollywood is fascinated with U.S. history, especially when it comes to changing it. For instance, X-Men: First Class teaches that mutants were actually the ones who averted the Cuban missile crisis. In Transformers: Dark of the Moon it turns out Nasa sent a mission to the moon to explore an alien spacecraft. And, in Super 8, Americans finally find out what really went down in Area 51. Revisionist history is a trend sweeping the movie industry because it’s fun and ups the...
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- 7/1/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her take on the movie industry changing historical facts to tell stories. With America celebrating its independence this weekend, the multiplex has a multitude of patriotic choices in film. That’s because Hollywood is fascinated with U.S. history, especially when it comes to changing it. For instance, X-Men: First Class teaches that mutants were actually the ones who averted the Cuban missile crisis. In Transformers: Dark of the Moon it turns out Nasa sent a mission to the moon to explore an alien spacecraft. And, in Super 8, Americans finally find out what really went down in Area 51. Revisionist history is a trend sweeping the movie industry because it’s fun and ups the...
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- 7/1/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her take on social and political messages cropping up in animated movies. Hollywood’s hottest movie trends are hard to miss: dark fairy tales like Red Riding Hood, turning toys and games into movies like Transformers and revisionist history as seen in X-Men: First Class. This weekend’s new release Cars 2 reflects a more subtle and unexpected trend creeping into animated family films: political commentary. The storyline of Cars 2 teststhe friendship of country bumpkin tow-truck Mater and savvy race car Lightning McQueen during a globe-trotting race. The World Grand Prix is designed to show off the efficiency of “alternative fuels” and quite a bit of dialogue...
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- 6/24/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her Guide to Summer Kids' activities. What is the most identifiable sound of summer? Birds chirping? Ice cream truck music blaring? Swimmers splashing? That’s lovely but, to a parent like me, it’s children whining, “I’m borrrrrrrred.” This weekend’s new family film release, Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, is about an imaginative third-grader’s attempt to have the best summer ever. The film is a goldmine of creative ideas you and your kids can adopt. But why stop there? Here are ways you can follow in the footsteps of characters from this summer’s movies to give your kids a fun, inspired summer (without tracking down Bigfoot). ...
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- 6/10/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her thoughts on the 'PG-13' genre… Following Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, I spoke with a visibly shaken 8-year old boy who was completely freaked, saying the movie was "scary." He said several things frightened him, but most specifically, "the mermaids." The mermaids? Looks like The Little Mermaid's "Kiss the Girl" plea just took a darker turn… Of course, this 8-year old had no business being in the theater. Pirates 4, like all the Potc films before it, is rated PG-13. And, like all the Potc films before it, parents seem to ignore the PG-13 rating and take their elementary school-age children anyway. The parents are understandably...
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- 5/20/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her mom's take on some films you might want to avoid on Mother's Day… This weekend is Mother’s Day and many people will dutifully spend the weekend with their mom in appreciation. Somewhere over the course of the weekend, most people will watch a movie. If you’re going to the multiplex, the choice is easy. African Cats may look like a nature documentary but in reality, it’s a Mother’s Day story. African Cats highlights a mama cheetah and a mama lioness whose love for their cubs is demonstrated by sacrifice. Good choice. If you’re spending the weekend at home, you can’t go wrong with Steel Magnolias, The Blind Side or Terms of Endearment....
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- 5/7/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her mom's take on Prom, and why a Disney-fied version of the big night might be a good thing, at least if you're a parent of said teen moviegoer… This weekend is Mother’s Day and many people will dutifully spend the weekend with their mom in appreciation. Somewhere over the course of the weekend, most people will watch a movie. If you’re going to the multiplex, the choice is easy. African Cats may look like a nature documentary but in reality, it’s a Mother’s Day story. African Cats highlights a mama cheetah and a mama lioness whose love for their cubs is demonstrated by sacrifice. Good choice. If you’re spending the weekend at home, you can’t...
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- 5/7/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her mom's take on some films you might want to avoid on Mother's Day… This weekend is Mother’s Day and many people will dutifully spend the weekend with their mom in appreciation. Somewhere over the course of the weekend, most people will watch a movie. If you’re going to the multiplex, the choice is easy. African Cats may look like a nature documentary but in reality, it’s a Mother’s Day story. African Cats highlights a mama cheetah and a mama lioness whose love for their cubs is demonstrated by sacrifice. Good choice. If you’re spending the weekend at home, you can’t go wrong with Steel Magnolias, The Blind Side or Terms of Endearment....
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- 5/7/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her mom's take on Prom, and why a Disney-fied version of the big night might be a good thing, at least if you're a parent of said teen moviegoer… Prom should be mandatory viewing for teenagers. If we parents band together, perhaps life will eventually imitate art as depicted in this Disney-fied version of prom night. In Disney's Prom, the kids aren't thinking about hotel rooms, hiding flasks or getting under a girl's hoop skirt. They're just concerned with whom they'll be taking to prom. That's it. And that's awesome. When I think of prom in the media, I think of horror movies like Carrie and Prom Night, and television episodes like "90210" where Donna gets...
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- 4/29/2011
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Tara McNamara, editor of KidsPickFlicks.com, guests on our Fandango Freshly Popped Blog with her mom's take on Prom, and why a Disney-fied version of the big night might be a good thing, at least if you're a parent of said teen moviegoer… Prom should be mandatory viewing for teenagers. If we parents band together, perhaps life will eventually imitate art as depicted in this Disney-fied version of prom night. In Disney's Prom, the kids aren't thinking about hotel rooms, hiding flasks or getting under a girl's hoop skirt. They're just concerned with whom they'll be taking to prom. That's it. And that's awesome. When I think of prom in the media, I think of horror movies like Carrie and Prom Night, and television episodes like "90210" where Donna gets...
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- 4/29/2011
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