• September 23, 2012
• Action, At Home

In my head Hard To Kill is the ultimate Steven Seagal movie. It was only his second major film, so we didn’t yet know that his movies were about...

• September 23, 2012
• Action, Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

Here’s one of my favorite things about this grrrrl-power, action-comedy from Pixar: I honestly had no idea what it was about when I sat down to watch. The filmmakers,...

• September 5, 2012
• Action, At Home, Thriller

Last weekend I stumbled upon a girly web site where a bunch of girly girls created an Expendables poster by replacing all of the old, grizzled icons with hot...

• August 5, 2012
• Action, At Home, Thriller

Maybe my expectations weren’t as high as the nearest fanboy or girl. Maybe I’m just kind of picky and want to be emotionally involved in a film, with developed...

• June 23, 2012
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Throughout Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, I sat there giggling at the outrageous revisionist history, thinking, “Oh, my mom would HATE this!!!” My parents are Lincoln groupies. They’ve been to...

• June 8, 2012
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Clint Eastwood has a broken heart. Actually quite literally… his heart is giving out, which makes it hard to chase the bad guys through city streets. Even though Clint...

• May 5, 2012
• Action, At Home, Family

Director Joss Whedon brings his trademark smarts and the sass – honed on iconic TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly – to this long-awaited big-screen teaming...

• December 21, 2011
• Action, At Home, Thriller

The Mission: Impossible movies starring Tom Cruise blur together for me. I remember something about a hot orange car, Felicity’s eye shattering like glass, some well-known star dying too...

• September 5, 2011
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Mystery

Watching the opening scene of National Treasure, I found myself tapping my chin thoughtfully as Christopher Plummer told a story about great secrets and treasures from the past to...

• July 30, 2011
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Science Fiction

Written and directed by Joe Cornish, and starring a cast made up of mostly unknowns, the spirited little film takes a standard-issue plot – namely, aliens invade Earth –...

• July 29, 2011
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western

If I’m being honest, this movie is sort of like a half-assed alien-invasion thriller combined with a half-assed cowboy shoot-‘em-up, and neither side really delivers the “omigoshWOW!” needed to...

• July 21, 2011
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Remember those ads in the back of comic books that showed a scrawny, 90-pound weakling getting sand kicked in his face by a bully? Well, that’s Steve Rogers (Chris...