Bear Cub

Spanish drama avoids the politics of gay adoption while focusing instead on realistic characters and situations.

"...that is seen too infrequently among child actors. Bear Cub purrs with uncommon emotion...."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lion King

Can you feel the shrug tonight?

"...original is a classic, no argument brooked. A lion cub named Simba (voiced here by McCrary) is set to..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Blood and Baby Carts

AFS presents samurai series Lone Wolf and Cub

"...breadth of the influence the beloved Lone Wolf and Cub series has had, but starting next week, the Austin..."

May 25, 2018 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

The Amazing Panda Adventure

"...up in a fight to save an orphaned panda cub from clumsy poachers while struggling to renew the bonds..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Latest update of Kipling's classic is caught in Disney's shadow

"...anthology book and centered solely on Mowgli, the orphaned man-cub raised by wolves in the Indian forests. Now the..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Jungle Book

"Forget about your worries and your strife …"

"...adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s timeless collection of fables about man-cub Mowgli (Sethi) and the furry denizens of his tropical..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

African Cats

Lions and cheetahs in the African savanna look lovely onscreen but are imbued with human emotions.

"...a pride of lions and a cheetah and her cubs, which live on opposite sides of a river in..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Animal Kingdom

An Australian family that commits crimes together avoids time together in this brutal look at the human survival instinct.

"...the opening moments of Animal Kingdom. J is the cub thrown into the den of his Melbourne, Australia, relatives,..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alaska

"...are obsessed with catching this one elusive polar bear cub (Agee) who happens to befriend the kids. The bear..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zeram

"...those new Godzilla, Suban Deka, and Lone Wolf and Cub movies over here...."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

New Legend of Shaolin

"...screen. Taking a page from Japan's Lone Wolf and Cub ultra-violent swordplay melodrama, as well as the old-style kung..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Macross II: Lovers Again

"...broken by an invasion of renegade aliens. A hot-shot cub reporter named Hibiki (who is really nothing more than..."

July 9, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Voyeur

"...(Zuiderhoek) protects him as if he were her bear cub. In one extraordinary scene she even licks him. His..."

Jan. 24, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Cans on Film

Documentarians looking for recyclers

"...through conversations with people living on the street, to cub-scout troops fundraising, to environmentalists." If you're interested, contact Shantel..."

March 24, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Coach's Corner

"...I was two, I sported my very own complete Cub uniform - hey, it wasn't my idea - complete..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

DVDanger: Wild Boys

The Boy and other examinations of the pre-teen male mind

"...exactly what wolfboy Kai (Gill Eeckelaert) doesn't have in Cub, a forest-shaded Belgian kin to The Boy's sun-blistered desert...."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Coach's Corner

Odds and Ends:

"...depths of my calloused heart, I hope the Chicago Cubs finish the season 0-162. The Cubs were my first..."

April 18, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Mufasa: The Lion King

Live-action Lion King story continues with a sequel and prequel in one

"...soon after the events of The Lion King, young cub Kiara (voiced by Blue Ivy Carter) has been asked..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Wolf and the Lion

Sweet-natured animal adventure brings back an old story

"...themselves forming an unlikely family. There’s Mozart, a wolf cub accidentally separated from his mother; Dreamer, a lion cub..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Born in China

The Disneyfication of nature continues

"...and us. A panda mom’s devotion to her newborn cub, a leopard mother fending for her young, a juvenile..."

April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Jungle Book 2

"...by Osment) is still as cute as ever, a "man-cub" in a loincloth and a wedge-cut pageboy ’do. What..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coach's Corner

"Cub Fans Dare to Believe,"says the headline. "Hah!" says Coach. Also: odds and ends about football, Tiger Woods, and Andy Roddick.

"...me to halt. It announces, in large black font, "Cub Fans Dare to Believe: Story C1." A year won't..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Day Trips

"...the U.S. Ten years ago a lion or tiger cub sold for $8,000 to $15,000. "That eliminated a lot..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Leopard Son

"...most part, The Leopard Son's attempt to present one cub's life in narrative form succeeds, although it's littered with..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wolf & Cub

"...Wolf & Cub..."

March 9, 2007 Music Review by Michael Bertin

Page Two: When I Write the Book

On luck, anarchy, and the narrative vagaries of life

"...Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance is the first in the original..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Meow Mix

Texans Are Wild About Exotic Cats, but at What Cost?

"...never occurred to him that the fuzzy 20-pound lion cub would measure nine feet long, weigh about 300 pounds,..."

Aug. 4, 2000 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Coach's Corner

The Cubs killed the fan in the Coach.

"...calendar... 1970, '80, '90. Occasionally (by accident really), the Cubs, in case anyone hasn't figured it out yet, would..."

July 7, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

The Luv Doc: A Personal Problem

The Luv Doc is no Emily Post

"...put together 2+2 and figured out one of the cubs she's on trains at the same place as I..."

July 21, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

L'immensità

Penélope Cruz is the madonna of modern cinema in a story of growing up trans

"...are the flipped version of a lioness protecting her cub...."

June 30, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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