Family Movies

Enjoy these 9 spooky classics before your mind shifts from candy corn to gingerbread houses.

It's looking like another great night to bring the whole family out to the Carteret Avenue beach in Seaside Heights for another movie on the sand!

Just in case you didn’t learn enough about the secret life of pets this summer, you’ll get a second chance in 2018. Illumination and Universal Pictures are officially developing a sequel to The Secret Life of Pets, the cute animated film that gave animals the Toy Story treatment — and gave you something enjoyable to watch during this lackluster movie season.

There’s nothing new or marvel about cute cuddly talking animals; they’ve been the center of animated feature films since the earliest days of animation. But in ‘The Secret Life of Pets,’ the age old shtick still works.

Historically, the addition of space travel into the mix has never failed to revitalize a flagging franchise. Take Clive Barker’s series of Hellraiser films, for instance: four films in, and the engine was losing steam. So for Bloodline, the film split into a triptych across centuries, the frame story for it all taking place on a spacecraft orbiting Earth. Demonic tormentor Pinhead killing people on Earth — not very scary, but Pinhead killing people in space — I’ll take two tickets, please. So, in this respect, Ice Age: Collision Course is without a doubt the Hellraiser: Bloodline of the Ice Age franchise.

There's been a lot of exciting movie news in these last few weeks; from getting our first look at "Finding Dory", to this week's celebration of the "Home Alone" 25th anniversary right here in Toms River, and of course the growing excitement over "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". But let's take a few minutes to take a look back at one of the best family movies of the yea

If you've seen either "Despicable Me" movie (or if you set foot on any Ocean County boardwalk the last two summers), you know the Minions well. Those mush-mouthed little yellow fellas who help the movie's bad guy, Gru, achieve his evil goals (usually ineptly). Well, if you love the little guys, get excited - they're getting their own movie next summer. Check out the official trailer now: