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Summer 2022 Family Movie Guide

April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

Krypto and Superman

Family-friendly films entice movie-goers back this summer. Families have spent little time in movie theaters since 2020. Often stuck at home, kept out of theaters or choosing to stay away the last couple of years, the summer of 2022 is likely to be different. In fact, it’s likely to resemble normal.  While masks might be […]

Filed Under: Family Activities Tagged With: films, movies

Mother’s Day Makeover Giveaway —2022

March 8, 2022 Leave a Comment

mother and son love

Parenting OC Magazine is teaming up with local businesses for a Mother’s Day Makeover Contest for two lucky moms to win a fabulous makeover package and a mini-portrait session to show off the final results. Each submission includes an essay about why a mother: parent, significant other, or friend is deserving of a makeover. Check out this year’s winners […]

Filed Under: Contests, Giveaways, Moms Tagged With: hairstyling, makeover, makeup, mother's day, movies, spa

Scream-Free Screen-Free Week

May 3, 2017 Leave a Comment

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Q: [Toddlers/Preschool] “Screen-Free Week looms and our family pledged to participate with our older kids. Now I am wondering how to address it with my younger ones (18 months and 3 1/2)? I’m afraid I do take advantage of PBS-distraction while I scramble to get their older sibs out the door to school. Do I […]

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Summer Movie Preview 2017

May 1, 2017 Leave a Comment

Summer Movie Preview Slideshow

It may seem odd to feature films during the month of Screen Free Week, but the act of going to the movies and passing around a hot bucket of popcorn as a family can be a bonding experience that extends past the closing credits. Use the parenting points below to spark bigger conversations with your […]

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Summer Movie Preview 2014

May 1, 2014 Leave a Comment

Summer Movie Preview 2014 Slideshow

A parental guide to film watching as a family. By Noë Gold A A theme common to this season’s crop of fair-weather movies is grown-ups getting in touch with kids, and in turn, coming to terms with their inner child. Take the main character from “Million Dollar Arm,” for example, J.B. Bernstein, who is played […]

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Holiday Movies: ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’

October 29, 2013 1 Comment

'Walking With Dinosaurs' movie for holidays

Cast: Charlie Rowe, Angourie Rice MPAA Rating: PG Opens: 12/20/13 Plot: During the Late Cretaceous period 70 million years ago, the Alexornis bird Alex narrates about three Pachyrhinosaurus named Patchi, Scowler, and Juniper who grow from infants into adulthood. Alex has a symbiotic relationship with Pachyrhinosaurus. Patchi leads the herd in migrating, and they also […]

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Holiday Movies: ‘The Nut Job’

October 28, 2013 Leave a Comment

'The Nut Job' movie

Cast: Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson MPAA Rating: PG Opens: 1/17/13 Plot: Filmmakers have set this action-packed comedy in fictional Oakton. A smarmy squirrel (voiced by Will Arnett) has a plan to break into a nut store so he and his pals will be set for the winter. “We get a crew. […]

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Holiday Movies: Disney’s ‘Frozen’

October 28, 2013 Leave a Comment

Disney's 'Frozen'

Cast: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk, Ciarán Hinds MPAA Rating: PG Opens: 11/27/13 Plot: In this comedy adventure, fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) sets off on an epic journey — teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven — to find […]

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Holiday Movies: ‘Free Birds’

October 28, 2013 Leave a Comment

'Free Birds' holiday movie

Cast: Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, Dan Fogler, Lesley Nicol, Colm Meaney, Keith David and George Takei MPAA Rating: PG Opens: 11/1/13 Plot: Director Jimmy Hayward’s (“Horton Hears a Who!”) animated buddy film (previously titled ‘Turkey”) film centers on two birds who travel back in time “to the first Thanksgiving. We’re taking turkey off […]

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Holiday Movies: ‘Flight of the Butterflies 3D’

October 28, 2013 Leave a Comment

Flight of the Butterflies 3D movie

Cast: Dana (Danaus Plexippus), Patricia Phillips, Stephanie Sigman, Gordon Pinsent (Fred A. Urquardt, PhD), Megan Elizabeth Follows (narrator). MPAA Rating: G Opens: 9/27/13 (at the California Science Center IMAX Theater and will be there for six months). Plot: “I gazed in amazement at the sight, butterflies — millions upon millions of monarch butterflies,” says Fred […]

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