A Sistah's Take on Film & Entertainment – October 2021
A Monthly review on all things film,
television, webinars, streaming, music, performing arts and entertainment.
Happy Halloween!
“Happy Halloween”
Wishing everyone a safe, fun, and spooky holiday.
Checkout these family friendly film and music suggestions.
Family Fun Movies
Twitches (2005)
1 hour 27 minutes
Fantasy/Family
TV–PG Rating
Disney Channel, Disney+, Hulu
Director: Stuart Gillard
Starring: Tia Mowry-Hardrict
Tamera Mowry-Housley
Reunited on their 21st birthday, twin sisters (Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry) use their magic powers to save their kingdom from the forces of darkness.
Twitches Too (2007)
1 hour 23 minutes
Family/Teen
TV–PG Rating
Disney Channel, Disney+, Hulu
Director: Stuart Gillard
Starring: Tia Mowry-Hardrict
Tamera Mowry-Housley
Twin sisters and twin witches Alex and Camryn didn't meet until they were 21, but their combined power managed to save their home from the forces of darkness. Since then they have been working together to strengthen their magic powers.
Halloweentown (1998)
1 hour 24 minutes
Family/Fantasy
TV-G Rating
Hulu, Disney Channel, Disney+
Director: Duwayne Dunham
Starring: Debbie Reynolds
Judith Hoag
Marnie and her kids get a big shock when they follow grandma home to Halloweentown - and find out they come from a family of witches. The town is the only place where supernatural beings can lead a `normal' life, but trouble is looming, and on her 13th birthday Marnie not only finds she is a witch, but that she and her family are involved in a fight against the evil that is threatening to take over the world.
HalloweenTown II: Kalabar's Revenge
(2001)
1 hour 21 minutes
Fantasy/Family
TV-PG Rating
Hulu, Disney Channel, Disney+
Director: Mary Lambert
Starring: Debbie Reynolds
Judith Hoag
An angry warlock has stolen a magic spell book and plans to turn everyone into whatever costume they're wearing at midnight on Halloween. It's a race against time to get the book back and save the humans from permanent horror.
HalloweenTown High (2004)
1 hour 22 minutes
Fantasy/Family
TV–G Rating
Disney Channel, Disney+
Director: Mark A. Z. Dippe'
Starring: Debbie Reynolds
Judith Hoag
Marnie organizes a student exchange program between her mortal school and the Halloweentown High. The first students to participate in this program are a witch, a warlock, a troll and an ogre.
Return to HalloweenTown (2006)
1 hour 28 minutes
Comedy/Family
TV-PG Rating
Disney Channel, Disney+, Hulu
Director: David Jackson
Starring: Sara Paxton
Lucas Grabeel
Marnie Piper arrives at the Halloweentown University - known to everyone as Witch U. Her best friend Aneesa is a student there too, and before you can say `abracadabra' the bewitching pair find themselves in magical mischief and mayhem.