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Our review: Parents say ( 1 ): Kids say ( 3 ): A master storyteller might have been able to make something good out of the creaky OUTCAST, but Nick Powell, a stuntman making his directorial debut, is no master. Cage appears in less than a third of this stone-faced movie; for once, it could have used more of his loony acting.
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Kids say ( 1 ): This dark, dramatic series successfully combines supernatural themes with horror to create a story world that is as entertaining as it is chilling. But while the evil presence he fights (in this fictional world) is real, Kirkman uses Kyle's own traumatic childhood, failed relationships, and self-loathing as a way of exploring ...
- 'Dumbo'
- 'The Jungle Book'
- 'Beauty and The Beast'
- 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'
- 'Hercules'
- 'Tarzan'
- 'Lilo and Stitch'
- 'Meet The Robinsons'
- 'Wreck-It Ralph'
- 'Encanto'
A baby elephant is delivered via stork to a circus with oversized ears. When his mother is taken away after trying to protect him from some kids, he is left alone and shunned by his fellow elephants. A mouse named Timothy, however, sees the value in the little elephant, and wants to help him become famous and save his mom. Related: 10 Great ‘Disney...
In the jungles of India, the panther Bagheera delivers an orphaned baby to a family of wolves. Years later, word spreads through the jungle that the man-hating tiger, Shere Khan, is nearby, so it is decided that Mowgli will be taken to a human-village for protection. However, Mowgli doesn't want to leave the jungle, and butts heads with Bagheera al...
Belle, the daughter of an eccentric inventor who dreams of a greater life for herself, lives in a poor provincial town in France. When her father doesn't return home from the fair, Belle follows his trail to a castle ruled by a beast who has her father prisoner. She takes his place, and over time begins to see that there is more to her captor than ...
High atop the Notra Dame cathedral lives the hunchback, Quazimodo. One day, he defies the orders of hs master, Judge Frollo, and attends a festival where he is abused for his appearance. When the dancer Esmeralda comes to his aid against Frollo's wishes, she earns his ire, and all of Paris will burn unless Quazimodo can overcome his self-doubt. The...
From Mount Olympus, Zeus and Hera celebrate the birth of their son, Hercules. Sadly, he is almost immediately stolen in the night by servants of Hades, Lord of the Underworld, and turned mortal in an attempt to avert a prophecy that says Hades shall fall. Growing up among humans, Hercules finds that he doesn't fit in thanks to his godlike strength ...
When his parents are killed by a leopard, a human baby is adopted by a gorilla who lost her child to the same cat. He tries to fit in with his troop, but cannot seem to win the approval of his gorilla father. Then a researcher and his daughter arrive in the jungle to study gorillas, and an adult Tarzan finds himself torn between two worlds. Through...
On the island of Kaua'i, Hawaii, a woman named Nani struggles to take care of her younger sister, Lilo. Since Lilo has been ostracized by her hula class for her strange tendencies, Nani takes her to adopt a dog. Unfortunately, the dog she chooses is really a deadly alien who is being hunted by representatives of the Galactic Federation. Related: ‘L...
An orphaned boy named Louis invents a machine to locate his biological mother in Meet the Robinsons, but the man in a bowler-hat's invention causes it to fail. A boy from the future tells Louis to try again, but a scuffle results in his time-machine getting damaged. Now stuck in the future while working on repairs, Louis meets the boy's eccentric f...
Ralph has been the bad guy since his game was first plugged in and would like a change of pace. One day, he breaks the rules of the arcade and jumps into an on-rails shooter to win a medal. When he loses it in a racing game, he teams up with a glitch-character to get it back, unaware that his actions unleashed a dangerous virus and that his video g...
The family Madrigal is an extraordinary Colombian family born with magic powers thanks to a candle given to the family's grandmother. That is, except for Mirabel, who was born without them. Powers or no powers, when she notices the magic beginning to vanish and the family house begin to crack, Mirabel goes to any lengths necessary to save her famil...
Don't waste time. Read Outcasts United: A Refugee Town, An American Dream by New York Times reporter Warren St. John as soon as you can. St. John's uplifting story is about a small town in Georgia, an influx of refugees from war-torn countries, boys, and the sport of soccer. But the book also sheds light on immediate demographic and cultural ...
Chapter 1: Luma. Luma Mufleh, the coach of the Fugees, grew up in a wealthy family in Amman, Jordan. Because of her family's wealth, she was able to attend an international school where she learned to speak perfect, unaccented English. She was also coached in volleyball by a very strict American coach.
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Outcasts United Summary. The book opens on a soccer field in Clarkston, Georgia, where Luma al-Mufleh is coaching a soccer team called the Fugees, made up entirely of refugee children. The Fugees play a beautiful game of soccer, winning 9-2. This is the first game that Warren St. John ever sees the Fugees play.
