Mama at the Movies

Barb Lee’s documentary, Adopted (2008), tells the story of two families. First we meet Jennifer Fero, a thirty-two year old Korean woman adopted as an infant by an Oregon couple…

Wes Anderson’s new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) is perfect, though of course any plot summary might have a cautious parent raising an eyebrow. So it is…

Dressed in jeans and an old fleece, my hair pulled back into a messy bun, I looked exactly like what I am: a mom who’d just barely made it out…

We are not, I admit, a Where the Wild Things Are family; we’re In the Night Kitchen folks. Sendak’s fantasy of naked Mickey’s romp in a New York City kitchen…

With all the summer buzz about the new Hayao Miyazaki film, Ponyo (2009), I thought maybe this would be my son Ben’s first movie-theater movie. He’s been reluctant to go…

My family has spent a lot of time in museums lately; both boys love to draw and paint, so we often take them to see works by other artists. We…

In the grand tradition of summer buddy movies, Sam Mendes’ new movie Away We Go presents a couple who take to the road. They’re not running from the law like…

As my family counts down the days to a summer trip to London, I decided to prepare my sons the way I know best: by watching movies about the place.…

I always imagined that my kids and I would watch loads of movies together. We would start at home with sweet animated features like Toy Story or movies I loved…

A couple days after my first son’s birth, I walked down the street of our busy neighborhood with my baby in a sling, awestruck. Everybody I looked at, I realized,…

Coraline’s life is a nightmare. She’s the new girl in town, an only child living in a creaky, leaky-windowed flat in a remote house at the top of a bare…