The current crop of wide-release children’s movies features a guy with a big blue head voiced by Will Ferrell and a guy with a pointy nose who sounds just like Steve Carrell. Oh, and there’s a girl with a long, long tangle of blond hair. But there is more celluloid creativity and imagination available for young, discerning film lovers at the Aurora Picture Show’s The Best of the Fest! Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2010. This year’s entrants include live action, animation, and documentary films that showcase stories of a mouse who joins the circus, a kitty who adopts an egg, a girl who flies the skies on a paper airplane and much more. 4 p.m. Winter Street Studios, 2010 Winter Street. For information, call 713-868-2101 or visit www.aurorapictureshow.org. Free.

Sat., Dec. 4, 4 p.m., 2010

This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2010.

Bob Ruggiero has been writing about music, books, visual arts and entertainment for the Houston Press since 1997, with an emphasis on Classic Rock. He used to have an incredible and luxurious mullet in...