Movies and TV shows aimed at children are always a delicate mix of cutesy innocence and potentially weighty subject matter kids might get bored of endless sunshine without any conflict, but go too dark and you risk mauling delicate sensibilities,
Return to Oz-style. And kid-friendly SFF can be tricky to navigate for even the most well-meaning guardian, after all what harm could be lurking in a puppet-filled fantasy adventure? Of course, there are also the traumatic moments we inflicted upon ourselves, staying up late only to peep at the screen through our fingers. Even if you had a storybook childhood, the odds are low that you escaped without being emotionally sideswiped by an intense moment or two…