• February 5, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, War

I love the Revolutionary War. It has all the tragedy, glamour, and pomp, leaving none for the other wars. In fifth grade, my best friend and I made armies...

• December 11, 2012
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Unlike Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings Trilogy, a trio of movies based on a trio of dense books, the Hobbit trilogy is based on… a single book....

• December 1, 2012
• Action, Adventure, At Home

You know you are in for a weird 70s-style camp treat when you see French heartthrob Alain Delon galloping his horse aimlessly across what almost seems to be a...

• December 1, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

After watching The Hunter, my movie buddy and I discussed, marveled rather, that such a movie got made at all. On the surface, The Hunter has a Hollywood-y plot...

• November 25, 2012
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Naysayers will want to compare The Hunger Games (and the forthcoming movie sequels) to The Twilight Saga, or to other stories with similar surface plots, like The Running Man...

• November 14, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Told in flashbacks, the film follows the journey, both literal and figurative, of its titular character (Suraj Sharma), whose life in India is upended when his father (Adil Hussain)...

• November 8, 2012
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Crime, Thriller

Things aren’t looking too great for anyone when the film opens: super-spy James Bond (Daniel Craig) is presumed dead after a botched mission that simultaneously lands M (Judi Dench)...

• September 23, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Television

The town of Storybrooke, Maine is like any town. People have real jobs, do everyday things, and have pretty boring lives. But a little boy named Henry (Jared Gilmore),...

• September 23, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

I admit, I steered clear of Mirror Mirror entirely because what I call The Julia Roberts Factor. No, I am not a fan, and have always been baffled by...

• September 23, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

I can only imagine that the inventors of 3D would have been so pleased one of the more unique ways that Journey 2: The Mysterious Island uses the technology....

• September 23, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Thriller

Made for $2 million, the 1972 canoe-trip-gone-wrong film Deliverance not only became a huge hit upon release, but its images, music, and lines have become fully embedded in pop...

• 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,...