If you’re in Toronto or Vancouver, we hope you were able to check out our Kindie Rocks GapKids family concert this past weekend. And we’re not sure if you’ve checked our our FamJam contest, but along with Luminato, we’ve got a Montreal trip to give away, complete with POP Montreal passes. Speaking of Luminato, we’re putting on a concert with They Might Be Giants on June 11. Yeah, you could say we’re into the family-friendly music scene. So while we wait for more stellar FamJam entries to trickle in, we’re declaring May a month of rocking family singalongs.
March comes in like a lamb, out like a lion. Or vice-versa, but it’s pretty lovely and sunny out there today which obviously means we’re in for a crappy end of the month. Where did this one-or-the-other idea even comes from? The Farmer’s Almanac says that our superstitious predecessors believed that there must be a balance both in weather and in life, so what starts out rough, ends up calm.
Whatever temperature swings Mother Nature throws at us, we’re looking forward to a roaring good month. Here are our favourite lion movies. (With a couple other big cats thrown in for good measure.)
What makes a muskrat guard his musk? Courage. What makes a lion endearing? A lack thereof. (And perhaps a few musical numbers) A cowardly lion makes for a strange companion for a girl from Kansas, but no stranger than a talking scarecrow or tin man. And he definitely makes a better traveling companion than a flying monkey. Read more...
Yesterday we gave you our list of the 7 best Halloween movies for families, rated for scariness by our in-house film critic, 5-year-old Sam. A number of you sounded off in the comments to let us know we had left a few choice movies off our list. And now we have esteemed film critic Richard Crouse weighing in.
Richard Crouse’s 3 favourite Halloween movies
1. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
“This is a family classic, a story that hasn’t aged at all since it was first seen on television in 1966.”
2. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
“Funny and colourful, this is one asks the question, Who will protect the enormous vegetables from the gigantic Were-Rabbit during Lady Tottington’s family’s 517th annual Giant Vegetable Fete? Wallace and Gromit is the delightful answer.” Read more...
