KIDS FIRST! Radio

Listen in as music critic John Wood joins us to interview two Grammy nominees in the children’s music category – Francie Kelley and Dave Kinnoin – and our experience attending the concert the day before the Grammy Awards with all the nominees performing. We will also review the new filmed ballet Giselle by the Royal Ballet which is one of the ballets presented at the Regal Cinemas this season. Last, we will review the classic family film Microcosmos airing on HDnet Movies KidScene all of February. Catch all this and more with your hosts Raven Devanney and Keefer Blakeslee joined by KIDS FIRST! Film Critic Brianna Beaton, Patrick Nguyen and Morgan Bertsch.

Listen in as we review two great new films, “Ride Along” starring Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and Tika Sumpter and “The Lunchbox” a film set in Mumbai. KIDS FIRST! music judge, John Wood joins us to interview acclaimed singer/songwriter Tom Chapin about his latest CD, “The Incredible Flexible You” and we meet one of our new 2014 KIDS FIRST! Film Critic Haley Powell. Catch all this and more with your hosts Raven Devanney and Keefer Blakeslee.

Listen in as we review two great new films, “The Nut Job” and “Journey to the South Pacific” the latter an exciting 3D Imax film narrated by Cate Blanchett. We also cover the filmed ballet, “The Nutcracker” which aired nationwide at Regal Cinemas as part of their partnership with the Royal Ballet of London. Last, we review the classic Spielberg film, “White Fang” airing on HDnet Movies all of February. Catch all this and more with your hosts Brianna Hope Beaton and Keefer Blakeslee joined by KIDS FIRST! Film Critics Gerry Orz, Anthony Aranda and Patrick Nguyen.

Listen in as we interview the lovely Abigail Mavity, star of the film “The Ultimate Life,” hear about the “Walking with  Dinosaurs” event at the LA Natural History Museum, and review the feature films “Saving Mr. Banks,” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.” We’ll also tell you all about the new DVD releases of “One Direction: This is Us” and “Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United.” Whew! And, from everyone at KIDS FIRST! we wish you a very Merry Christmas and may your New Year bring you prosperity and joy. Catch all this and more with your hosts Raven Devanney, Brianna Hope Beaton and Keefer Blakeslee joined by KIDS FIRST! Film Critics Gerry Orz, Morgan Bertsch and Jailene Arias.

Listen in as we review the new holiday film, “Angels Sing” and interview Chandler Canterrbury, one of its stars. We’ll share a review of “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters” available now on DVD/Blu-ray. You can hear all about the Hollywood Christmas Parade which was covered by two of our young reporters on the red carpet, “Turbo FAST” the first Netflix/Dreamworks collaboration. This series will be available on Netflix starting on December 24. Catch all this and more with your hosts Brianna Hope Beaton and Keefer Blakeslee joined by KIDS FIRST! Film Critics Gerry Orz, Morgan Bertsch and Cheyenne Nguyen. Go here to listen.

Listen in as we review the new holiday film, “Black Nativity” as well as “Planes” which just came out in DVD/Blu-ray. We will give you the scoop on the new ballet, “Alice in Wonderland” which just was featured at Regal Theaters through its alliance with NCM and, last but not least, a review of “The Greatest Game Ever Played” – one of the classic family films airing next month on HDNet Movies kidScene. Catch all this and more with your hosts Raven Devanney and Brianna Hope Beaton joined by KIDS FIRST! Film Critic Keefer Blakeslee, Patrick Nguyen and two contestants in our 2014 KIDS FIRST! Film Critic Search Competition, Kendyl and Kayla Powell. Go here to listen.

Listen in as we review four great new films: “Frozen” from Disney, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Ender’s Game,” and “Planes” which is now available in DVD/Blu-ray. Hear all this and more with Co-hosts Keefer Blakeslee and Raven Devanney. Go here to listen.

Listen in as John Wood joins us to interview Marla Lewis and Seth Goldstein about their audio CDs Cocoa (Marla) and The Ohmies (Seth), both of which recently won KIDS FIRST! endorsements. Then, we will review three new film releases: “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Ender’s Game,” and “The Book Thief” – all in theaters now! Hear all this and more with our hosts Keefer Blakeslee and Raven Devanney. Go here to listen.

Join us as we celebrate our 100th show! In this show, we’ll listen to 12 of our KIDS FIRST! Film Critics talk about their experience as a critic and tell you how to enter our 2014 Search Competition which is underway now through the end of the year. We will also review four films: “Pete’s Christmas,” a new Hallmark Channel film that’s available on DVD exclusively at WalMart, “Delivery Man” – the new comedy starring Vince Vaughn, “Thor: The Dark World” starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, and “Ender’s Game”  starring Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld.   Hear all this and more with our hosts Brianna Hope Beaton, Keefer Blakeslee and Raven Devanney joined by KIDS FIRST! Film Critics Gerry Orz, Jaheem Toombs, Morgan Bertsch, Jailene Arias, Stacy Belizaire, Valdi-love Belizaire, Anthony Aranda and Patrick Nguyen. Go here to listen.

Join us as we interview Alex Vega who stars in the new Hallmark movie “The Hunters.” We’ll review the new animated film “Free Birds” which comes out just in time for Thanksgiving, “Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising” – a new DVD release and the classic film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” airing all month on HDNet Movies kidScene. Hear all this and more with our hosts Brianna Hope Beaton and Keefer Blakeslee joined by KIDS FIRST! Film Critics Anthony Aranda and Raven Devanney. Listen here.