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Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1972)

What Saga said. Italian story, so naturally Italians do it better!

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Baby Bump (2015)

Fascinating and unusual film. Contains some striking visual images.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Badhuset (1989)

Superb, authentic story of a childhood game that gets out of hand, mainly on account of the leader of a group of girls that the boy protagonist feels compelled to go around with, presumably because of the paucity of other kids to play with in his neighbourhood. The film is based on a short story by P. C. Jersild (author of Barnens ö / Children's Island, which was made into the 1980 film of the same name).

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Barnens ö (1980)

Absolutely stunning coming-of-age movie taking a realistic look inside the thoughts of an introverted and intelligent 10-year-old boy as he approaches the onset of puberty - an event he fears because he thinks it will turn him into a selfish, sex-obsessed 'pig' like the adults around him, and distract him from the big philosophical questions, including the question of his own unique identity and the significance of his individual life. The film boasts an amazing soundtrack courtesy of Jean-Michel Jarre. An absolute must-see.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Den Bästa sommaren (2000)

Absolutely stunning. A wonderful film full of gentle humour, but with a serious, even darker, edge, as the kids fight for their right to love, to control their own lives and to live with whomever they like, against adult authority and against the state. Unmissable.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Beau (2016)

Clumsy, confusing and somewhat unpleasant.

My Movie Rating:

2 / 10

Bedone marz (2014)

In this film, visual style seems to have been privileged over narrative content, and I'm not sure that the result is entirely successful. In the end, we know too little about the protagonist to care very much about him.

My Movie Rating:

5 / 10

The Believers (1987)

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Benidorm (2007-2018)

If you're after beautiful people on the beach... avoid this series! Instead, we get hideously unaesthetic Brits abroad. I did, however, find it a great series to just relax to, and quite amusing, particularly in the earlier seasons.

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

Big City (2007)

A nice concept, but the writers are a little heavyhanded with the political preaching on the theme of the treatment of the negro and the Red Indian by the white man. Can't hold a candle to "Bugsy Malone", but pleasant enough, and Vincent Valladon is very photogenic and likable as 'James Wayne'.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

The Big Show (1923)

The sheer inventiveness and joie de vivre of this film, matched with some of the finest comic acting you'll ever see from the likes of the great Mickey Daniels and his peers, make this an absolute masterpiece from Hal Roach's studios.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Bizco (2019)

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

The Black Hand Gang (1930)

It's actually brilliant, and Wee Georgie Wood is brilliant. Very highly recommended.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Le blé en herbe (1954)

A masterpiece. Pierre-Michel Beck is utterly wonderful.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

The Blue Lagoon (1980)

The characters are too simplistic and sketchily drawn, so we never really care much about them. Also, there's very little dramatic tension. So although, for example, we learn early on that there are other people occasionally on the island, they never really come across as a threat to the two protagonists' cosy existence. The whole thing is almost like a television broadcast for schools on the changes your body is going through at puberty! Neither of the teenage actors is particularly charismatic. The scenery, however, is very beautiful.

My Movie Rating:

5 / 10

Bolshoe kosmicheskoe puteshestvie (1975)

Superb acting from the kids, spontaneous outbreaks of collective dancing - love it!

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

The Box of Delights (1984)

Based on the 1935 novel by John Masefield, this is one of the finest ever adaptations of a children's novel for British television. There is a great deal to like in this thoroughly English story: suspicious foreigners, kidnapped choirboys, "the wolves are running", servants who know how to make a posset, Master Kay bonding with Herne the Hunter in a primordial English forest, a strange fusion of the Pagan and the Christian, not to mention Patrick Troughton (surely one of England's finest ever actors) adding gravitas to the proceedings, and Robert Stephens hamming it up beautifully as the evil Abner Brown. Devin Stanfield is wonderful as Kay Parker. Devin has a charm that is hard to describe, a sort of slight hesitancy in his gestures - perhaps something to do with his being on the cusp of puberty. Troughton was later to say of the young Devin that he believed that he was the boy whom Masefield himself would have chosen to play the role of Kay - and I think Troughton was right.

My Movie Rating:

10 / 10

Boy (2011)

Decently acted and directed, but the film is too much a fragment of a film to make any real impression.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

Boy Slaves (1939)

RKO's hilariously inept attempt to come up with their own version of the Dead End Kids (one of the cast even looks like a rattier version of Bobby Jordan). The messy plot incorporates a great deal of moral earnestness, and the maudlin sentiment is laid on with a trowel. The boys attempt to reproduce the banter of the Dead End Kids, but it just comes across as weird. They meet Julian Clary driving a cart (no, really). The only thing to be said in favour of this film is that it really is so bad that it's frequently quite entertaining in its sheer maladroitness. Enjoy!

My Movie Rating:

3 / 10

The Boy (2015)

An absolutely superb movie - in fact, something of a modern masterpiece. Jared Breeze is such a star - a remarkable young actor; I think few boys could have pulled off his role as effectively as he did. I have to confess something, though. I couldn't help having some sympathy for the boy's actions at the climax of the film, given the way the adults treated him - particularly the young adults at the end.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

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