• June 3, 2011
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Packed as much with action and special effects as it is rich in story and detail for fans and newbies alike, X-Men: First Class delivers a summer-movie experience more...

• May 15, 2011
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

There are some movies so iconic that you feel like you’ve seen them over and over. But one day, you sit down and watch the whole movie from start...

• August 21, 2010
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Family

For those unversed in the world of The Last Airbender (like myself), this is what I roughly figured out from the film. The movie is based on a Nickelodeon...

• June 25, 2010
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Comedy

Tom Cruise stars as Roy Miller, a CIA agent who may or may not have gone rogue, but who’s nonetheless on the run from his former partner, Fitzgerald (Peter...

• June 20, 2010
• Action, At Home, Drama

When 12-year-old Dre Parker (Smith) and his mom (Taraji P. Henson) pack up their lives in Detroit and move to China – for reasons that are never fully explained...

• May 7, 2010
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

I enjoyed Iron Man for what it was, a sort of snarky super-hero movie that actually starred adults for a change. Robert Downey, Jr., with his affected narcissism, was...

• April 29, 2010
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

So of course I had this Def Leppard song in my head through much of Armageddon—partially, I’m sure, to block out the creepiness of the all-Aerosmith, all-the time soundtrack....

• April 17, 2010
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Crime

Imagine a world, much like our own, where people love super-heroes, but, well, super-powers don’t exist. Sounds like reality, doesn’t it? In the opening scene, a super-hero with metal...

• March 26, 2010
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Family

I went into How to Train Your Dragon with absolutely no expectations. Zero. Nada. But by the time the closing credits were winding up, I found myself loitering in...

• December 18, 2009
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Avatar takes place sometime in the future (150 years-ish) when humans have decimated the resources of Earth, and now have shown up on the distant, lush moon called Pandora....

• November 12, 2009
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

It will surprise no one to learn that the “plot” of the movie is fairly thin – neutrinos from the sun have been heating up the Earth’s core, and...

• October 23, 2009
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Directed by Paul Weitz (In Good Company), the story revolves around teenager Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia), whose strait-laced, hum-drum life is turned inside out when a freak show rolls...