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Where Eskimos Live (2002)

A great film with Bob Hoskins playing a pretty awful character as a fake UN official in wartime Bosnia. He's looking for a boy to take back to Poland to be adopted. In Bosnia he meets Vlado (Seguisz Zymelka) who both go on a horrendous journey through the country. Serguisz, who is actually Polish, gives a fine performance as the boy witnessing many of the horrors of war. Apparently, he had to learn his lines in English for the part.

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

Whisper (2007)

I enjoyed this film even if the unfortunate kidnappers were on a hiding to nothing up against David (Blake Woodruff) and his ability to use the supernatural in his weaponry. Blake was the ideal boy to play the part with his outward innocence until you went into close-up and saw those eyes and that menacing smile.

The DVD even had an alternate ending in which David survives. The extras included a 'making of' feature which showed Blake being typically boyish around the set. It seems he even had a stuntBOY to do the scenes where he had to fall off the roof and that.

Great boy horror film with good support coming from the adult actors.

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

Wide Awake (1998)

A moving film of the relationship between grandad and grandson. A sprinkling of the supernatural does nothing to detract from this pleasant and often funny film. A fine performance from Joseph Cross of course.

What no mention of Michael Craig Bigwood who played the mysterious little boy/angel? I think he was the son of James Bigwood, the co-producer.

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Peter Ostrum is great as Charlie Bucket while Gene Wilder excels as the whacky Willy Wonka. I liked the scene towards the end where Wonka refuses to accept Charlie who then gives him back his everlasting gobstopper.

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

An interesting film with a great performance from Kyle Catlett.

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

800 balas (2002)

I've never seen this boy actor, Luis Castro, before and wasn't even aware the DVD I picked up in a poundshop starred him in it. At two hours long the film could have done with some editing but it was good to see another unknown (to me) boy actor doing his bit. A charming, comedy film from Spain with a good performance from Luis playing Carlos, the boy who has no father and adores his grandfather instead. I good takeoff of the spaghetti westerns.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

About a Boy (2002)

I believe this film was Nicholas Hoult's acting debut. He plays the boy Marcus wonderfully, catching really well the boy's embarrassment at the goings on of his bohemian mother and the funny scene where he kills a duck with his mum's bread. The scene in the restaurant where Marcus's mother confronts Will (Hugh Grant) about her boy going to his flat all the time was ridiculous. What repurcussions was that going to have for a single man talking about such things in public instead of drawing him to one side? In the book, apparently, the confrontation took place at Will's front door.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005)

Good film with plenty of special effects and a charming Cayden Boyd. Taylor Lautner also looks good in his Sharkboy outfit.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

All the Marbles (2017)

Cole Sand looks cute in his shorts and this film was quite an ambitious production. Good storyline though it would've been better if he had played against another equally cute boy.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

Antboy: Den Røde Furies hævn (2014)

I watched this film on YouTube but in French with no subtitles so I am not aware of the subtleties of the plot save to say that Oscar Dietz is rather cute with his rounded face and even cuter when he wears his ant mask. I see he is Danish ... well, that just makes it more interesting I guess.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

The Awakening (2011)

Good acting from good looking Issac Hempstead Wright but leading lady (Rebecca Hall) rather spoiled things. She was supposed to be a level headed ghost doubter but ended up a silly nervous wreck once she got to the school. Issac is DEFINITELY the type of ghost I wouldn't mind haunting me.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

The Babadook (2014)

Great acting from the mother and, of course, Noah Wiseman. However, I've always been of the opinion that horror movies don't work so well if the house in question is in suburbia. In this case the mother always had neighbours next door or across the road. It works much better if the house is in the middle of nowhere.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

The Beastmaster (1982)

One of those sword and sandal films where BOYS get to put on the swords and sandals. A pity the film didn't concentrate more on the lives of the two boy characters and less of Marc Singer showing his muscles. Josh Milrad was great though it seems this was his only film unlike Billy Jacoby who has appeared in several. The film should've been called 'Young Beastmaster' then Jacoby would have had a bigger part. No DVD extras - boo.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

Believe (2013)

A typically British boy film similar to 'Billy Elliot' of a boy (Jack Smith), mad on football, who gets himself into trouble and is rescued by no other than Sir Matt Busby (Brian Cox). This film had some charming moments and wonderful acting from first time Jack.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

Billy & Chuck (2011)

Good acting from John Donnelly although James Killeen would've looked much better in the part.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

The Boys Are Back (2009)

A good film depicting the ups and downs of parenting. Good acting from both boys.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

By This River (2013)

A slow moving but sensitive film of two boys who lose their mother and build a raft to float on the river to, presumably, the land of the dead.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

The Canterville Ghost (1996)

One of those boy films not well known but okay nevertheless. I give this film an extra point because Raymond Pickard was in it!

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

A Christmas Carol (1999)

A fair production of Dickens's classic although Patrick Stewart doesn't come across as miserable or miserly enough for Scrooge. The great Ben Tibber plays Tiny Tim but his part is too small to enhance this film any. Also the cover on my DVD is not as attractive as the one featured here with Tibber.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007)

Another Christmas movie found in a poundshop. I have to confess to never having heard of Luke Ward-Wilkinson before. He certainly has a great dimpled smile.

The tale of a boy and his widowed mother gaining the affections of a woodcarver recluse is very well handled. Did the mother have to accompany her son to the woodcarver's house every time, or was that a nod to modern day chaperoning? At the time of the film, during the First World War, the boy would've gone to the man's house whenever he wanted happily free of today's stupid restraints.

Some of the photography is really good though aided, in parts, by some CGI effects I think. However, I must agree with a review I read that the ending seemed somewhat rushed and that the woodcarver's coming round from a taciturn recluse to an amiable person was too quickly dealt with. The reviewer even referred to the back of the DVD cover which showed them all in church singing carols possibly. A scene that wasn't in the film.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

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