Seven years ago, I was staring at my DVD shelves thinking about the Abraham-Hicks quote: Reach for the better-feeling thought and realised that I’d been collecting films that did that. The idea of
Continue readingU. Dreamworks Animation. Feel-better Rating: Trolls are naturally merry souls. Bergens have a culture of misery alleviated by the festival of Trollstice. They believe that by eating trolls they will absorb
Continue readingPG13. Lucasfilm. Feel-better Rating: In a galaxy far, far away, the oppressive Imperial regime is holding sway over an increasing number of worlds but the Rebel Alliance challenges its domination. As
Continue readingPG. Disney Animation Studios. Feel-better Rating: The Storyline Grandma Tala tells the story of a mischievous demi-god called Maui. Using his magical fishhook, he stole the heart stone from the island
Continue reading12. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Feel-better Rating: A peaceful Californian valley is disrupted but the sound of an explosion and in the hamlet of Rose Creek children are hurried to safety. Villainous industrial
Continue readingPG13. Warner Brothers. Feel-better Rating: Single, 43-year-old television producer Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is stood up on her birthday by her child oriented friends. As a consolation prize, friend Sarah
Continue readingPG13. Warner Brothers. Feel-better Rating: Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a diffident British Ministry of Magic conservationist arrives in 1920’s New York on his way to make a delivery of choice mystic
Continue reading12A. Twentieth Century Fox. Feel-better Rating: Jake (Asa Butterfield, Hugo) thinks he is ordinary. His parents certainly are. But grandfather Abe (Terence Stamp) brings magic and mystery into Jake’s
Continue reading12A. Paramount. Feel-better Rating: A plea for help to rescue a crashed ship in an uncharted nebula sends in Enterprise on a mercy mission. Setting off from a galactic frontier space station, the USS
Continue readingPG. Amblin Entertainment. Feel-better Rating: An enchanting tale of, arguably, Roald Dahl’s most endearing character, the Big Friendly Giant. Insomniac orphan Sophie witnesses the BFG at the witching
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