A while back Paula K. Parker interviewed Roma Downey and featured the wonderful children’s DVD series she created titled LITTLE ANGELS.  The DVDs are designed to help teach children their ABC’s, 123’s, and also introduce them to bible stories.  Roma Downey who starred in the hugely...

Finales close the spring television season, leaving many viewers wondering what to fill their summer with. Fans of espionage and crime need not worry; George Smiley and Hercule Poirot offer many hours with satisfying twists and turns. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy from Acorn Media Group stars...

Steven Spielberg’s War Horse is simply stunning. I didn’t get to see this film in the theatre. Thank goodness for flat screen LCD TV, Dolby surround sound and the incredible reproduction of Blu-ray technology. This is a movie that makes those products absolutely essential. War...

One evening in 1997, I was flipping through the channels on television, when I came upon a Masterpiece Theatre presentation of I, Claudius, an epic BBC drama spanning 70 years of the imperial Roman family. After the first episode, I was hooked; over the next several months, I tuned in weekly...

Even after 40 years, Dr. Seuss’s THE LORAX Still Inspires “Unless someone like you…cares a whole awful lot…nothing is going to get better…It’s not.” In 1971, a year after the first Earth Day, Dr. Seuss published his book, “The Lorax” as a warning...

I’m a sucker for Greek mythology; have been since I was old enough to read. Immortals 2oth Century Fox Home Entertainment The groundbreaking film technologies employed by the producers of 300 is perfect for the genre, so it is not surprising that there seems to be a glut of Greek myths...

Martin Scorsese decided to make a kid’s movie, and still ended up making a film for adults. Hugo Paramount Home Entertainment It’s not that there is anything of an adult nature in Hugo that would make it inappropriate for children. There is no coarse language, no adult situations,...

Jack and Jill have the magic beans, Humpty Dumpty is cracked morally as well as externally, the giant has already been dealt with by that other Jack, and the goose that laid the golden egg is really a gosling with a terror for a mother. Not sure what fairy tale Kitty Softpaws came from, but...

Another classic from Big Idea Entertainment Only Big Idea Entertainment could mix a story from classic literature with an important lesson and still make it fun. On March 3 for CBA and March 6 for general market, VeggieTales®: Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men teaches kids how to handle...

Films that need a wide screen, 3-D and surround sound to impress audience often lose something when seen on a smaller screen. Releasing on DVD and Blu-ray, The Way, starring Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez has all it needs to  leave audiences breathless. Tom [Sheen] is an irascible American...

I discovered Agatha Christie on my mother’s bookshelf when I was a young teen. I fell in Ms Christie’s brilliant writing, the three dimensional characters, and the plots filled with twists and red herrings. Of all of Christie’s detectives, my favorite was Hercule Poirot, the...

The series conclusion is lacking “Connoisseurs of the Robin Hood legend call this action-packed mid-1980’s British television series the standard by which all other adaptations are measured. Rich with authentic historical detail and cunning plot twists, Robin of Sherwood adds a bit of...