Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1838 Films to Buy & Rent
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010)
- Dir. Will Geiger
Feat. Bindi Irwin, Beau Bridges, Mike Falkow
- Genial revival of the FREE WILLY franchise with Bindi Irwin sent to spend her summer in South Africa with grandfather Beau Bridges and his failing…
Gulliver's Travels (2010)
- Dir. Rob Letterman
Feat. Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel…
- Raucous adaptation of the Jonathan Swift classic with Jack Black at his brashest.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane…
- Seventh and penultimate film in the H.K. Rowling–penned franchise now finds Harry and pals Ron and Hermione on the lam as Lord Voldemort…
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
- Dir. Dean Deblois, Chris Sanders
Feat. Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson…
- Top–flight animated feature about a hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons but becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself,…
Illusionist, The (2010)
- Dir. Sylvain Chomet
- Sylvain Chomet's long awaitied follow–up to THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE is another exquisite animation, this time based on an unfilmed script by…
Jack and the Beanstalk (2010)
- Dir. Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Feat. Colin Ford, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Lloyd…
- Gently subversive telling of the classic tale with young Jack trading his computer for the requisite magic beans, and there's enough…
Just William (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Rebecca Front, Caroline Quentin, Warren Clarke…
- Cute kids comedy, based on the eternally popular books, with a young scallywag and his gang running amok. Parents may well enjoy the…
Kaitangata Twitch (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Te Waimarie Kessell, George Henare
- A fine adaptation of Margaret Mahy's novel about a teenager who possesses a strange connection to a mysterious island where a young girl vanished…
Karate Kid, The (2010)
- Dir. Harald Zwart
Feat. Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson
- Solid remake of the '80s classic with Jaden Smith as the bullied teen learning to fight back with the help of Jackie Chan.
Last Airbender, The (2010)
- Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz…
- Based on the weirdly popular Nickelodeon series, this cheesy live–action version from know–it–all director M. Night Shyamalan was…