Movies & TV
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return is a 3D-animated musical based on the adventure books by Roger Stanton Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum. A continuation of one of the world’s most popular and beloved fairy tales, Legends of Oz finds Dorothy (Lea Michele) waking to post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the Lion (Jim Belushi), the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and Glinda (Bernadette Peters) from a devious new villain, the Jester (Martin Short). Wiser the owl (Oliver Platt), Marshal Mallow (Hugh Dancy), China Princess (Megan Hilty) and Tugg the tugboat (Patrick Stewart) join Dorothy on…
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Walking With the Enemy
Inspired by the true story of Pinchas Rosenbaum, Walking With the Enemy begins in the final months of World War II. The Nazis are desperately trying to enact their genocide against Jews in Hungary, who had been protected from persecution until their leader Regent Horthy, played by Sir Ben Kingsley, was forced to bow to the will of Hitler and Eichmann. Hoping to find his displaced family and avoid being placed in a labor camp, young Elek Cohen, played by Jonas Armstrong, undertakes extraordinary measures to survive, using a stolen uniform to pose as a Nazi officer so that he can reroute Jews to safety and disrupt the activities of…
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The Nut Job Cracks My Kids Up + Giveaway
Today, The Nut Job comes to BluRay, DVD and Digital HD, starring Will Arnett as Surly, a mischievous squirrel who will stop at nothing to prove himself, at the same time he learns along the way about commitment, sacrifice and what it means to be a true friend. Surly the squirrel has it all planned out. With the help of his generally useless and silent rat-partner-in-crime, Buddy, food for winter without all the work is all but theirs. They simply have to slip down to the hot-nuts vendor cart that just showed up on the corner, create a small distraction and make off with all the delicious morsels a thieving rodent duo…
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Our Gang Loves The Little Rascals Save the Day + Giveaway
The Little Rascals are back! The beloved comedy series from the earliest days of film featured the wild adventures of Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, their dog Petey, and the rest of the gang. On April 1, 2014, the all-new story The Little Rascals Save the Day will be released on DVD/Blu-Ray featuring Doris Roberts of “Everyone Loves Raymond” as Grandma. My kids, ages 7 to 8, laughed at The Little Rascals, whose highly imaginative approach to the world around them is exemplified in inventive gadgets and contraptions…well, with a few mistakes, too. 😉 The acting is not necessarily award-winning, BUT I realize that my kids are not film-critics, too. In The…
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YesVideo: From Memories to Retelling Stories Digitally
These past few months, I have been honored to be a YesVideo Storyteller, their ambassador program. Part of the benefits of being a “Storyteller” is traveling to their headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and take a tour of their facilities. Since 1999, YesVideo has been providing services and programs for families to protect and share generations of memories. They believe in designing products that our own families would enjoy and building processes that we would trust to handle our own irreplaceable memories. First, they started out by mailing customers CD-ROMs, then moved toward mailing DVDs and now making it easy to share the memories via email, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and…