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Film Review: Motherhood starring Christina Hendricks, Alysia Reiner & Anna Camp

Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Alysia Reiner (Orange Is The New Black) and Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) go head to head in the brilliant and biting comedy Motherhood about friendship, feminism and fertility. An entertaining and thought-provoking watch. Motherhood is an independent film streaming now on iTunes, Amazon, Sky, Virgin, Google Play, BT, Microsoft. In the USA it has been released…
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Chatting to Joe Sugg and Casper Lee about Wonder Park

Wonder Park is a splendiferous new animation that tackles the issue of explaining emotional intelligence to young children: how to express feelings and transform negative emotions into something positive! For this alone it is very educational. London Mums have been lucky enough to meet some of the stars involved in making this film. While I was cruising the North Sea, my lovely friend and London…
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Film review: Missing Link starring Hugh Jackman

Sometimes the best animations go under the radar but are fantastic. Overshadowed by a lot of kids’ movies  out there at the moment, comes globe-trotting comedy-adventure Missing Link featuring stunning craftwork from the award-winning animation LAIKA Studios and vocal recordings by Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis and Zoe Saldana to name a few. Read why London Mums and the kids’ club…
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Sex on TV before kids' bedtime? Parents can now avoid awkward sex scenes with new ‘skip the sex’ button on BBC iPlayer

I am sure I am not alone having experienced awkwardness when suddenly there was sex on TV before kids’ bedtime and having to cover my son’s eyes with my hand to avoid the conversation ‘What is that?’ at a too young age. Well, he’s now almost 13 and has had the talk from myself and the school teachers a couple of times. So he’s in the know but I still exercise some parental guidance…
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Books

Ideas to create a story corner for a memorable bedtime experience

Let’s face it. The pace of our life is super-fast. These days parents lead very, very busy lives and are constantly juggling work and home duties. Things like reading bedtime stories are often not considered a priority. This is why the childhood tradition of storytelling before bed is in serious peril. Parents are not making the time to read to their children at the end of the working day and…
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Film review: Tim Burton's & Disney's Dumbo

Dumbo is the perfect live action feel-good family movie for the forthcoming Easter holidays.  It feels like a good old-fashioned Disney film including all ingredients that we all love about the classic animations plus great new live-action features. And Dumbo is irresistible with his big sweet eyes and ears. Don’t miss the opportunity to watch this incredible Tim Burton‘s movie in cinemas…
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Our Favourite Wizarding World Easter Eggs in Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald

The latest Wizarding World chapter, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is full of many magical Easter Eggs from the world of Harry Potter, did you spot them? No worries, we did! To celebrate the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, available on Digital Download, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray and DVD now, we’ve pulled together five of our favourite spots from the…
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Diana Ross: Her Life, Love and Legacy in an emotional documentary

CinEvents will release an emotional documentary, Diana Ross: Her Life, Love and Legacy, in cinemas for one night only, on 26th March 2019 to mark Ross’ 75th birthday.  The story The film shows her historic 1983 Central Park concert, where nearly 1.2 million people united on the Great Lawn only for the concert to be hit by a huge storm! With the concert having to come to a halt, Ross’…
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Motherhood and Celebrity: Author of Your Guilty Secret discusses putting life experience at the heart of your writing

A fellow mother once told me that when she goes out with her four kids, she dresses them all in bright colours. “Just so I can see where they are at a glance.” Ah – I thought to myself. Good idea. I must do that. But as soon as the thought entered my brain, it had filtered out again. Probably to be replaced by important information such as when the next series of Killing Eve was out.  But…
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Balancing motherhood and writing? Author of Your Guilty Secret Rebecca Thornton discusses balancing work & family life

I once read an interview with a high-flying female. I can’t quite remember who it was. But I can remember that she had about ten kids running around her at all times and still managed to look beautiful and well put-together and well, shiny. You know – one of those. She also probably got up at about two in the morning for yoga, before sitting at her computer before the school-run rush…
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