“Nanny McPhee” stands just fine on its own without a nursemaid in the form of a big kid-movie franchise behind it.While it has its basis in star Emma Thompson’s adaptation of Christianna ...

Five years after her movie debut -- not so long a passage to have been forgotten and enough time to be fondly remembered -- "Nanny McPhee Returns." By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press Five ...

The new Nanny McPhee movie, Nanny McPhee Returns has a lighter spirit than its predecessor, but it arrives at the same warm and touching place. Emma Thompson not only stars as the homely ...

that's the intriguing premise of "Nanny McPhee," a movie inspired by Christianna Brand's "Nurse Matilda" books. If only the film, starring and scripted by Emma Thompson, lived up to its promise.

The “Nanny McPhee” movies may be principally for kids, but make no mistake about it: They are, quite literally, a parent’s dream. Overwhelmed single parents with unruly kids are rescued by a ...

Such is the early situation in "Nanny McPhee Returns" before Isabel Green, the mother (Maggie Gyllenhaal), takes in her niece and nephew, urban kids who arrive in a Rolls Royce. The newcomers ...

Such are the hard truths gleaned in “Nanny McPhee,” a gleefully raucous tale of adolescent misbehavior that plays like a militant, nonmusical “Mary Poppins.” The movie is based on the ...