• 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 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...

• 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...

• January 28, 2011
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

The one-man-against-the-odds drama revolves entirely around James Franco’s terrific solo performance as Aron Ralston, the skilled but somewhat reckless rock climber whose self-preservation instincts ultimately saved his life when...

• January 25, 2011
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Western

Dances With Wolves is a modern Hollywood epic at its best. Just like Titanic or Braveheart, the film is bloated and full of the ego of its director (in...

• December 11, 2010
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

This time around, youngest Pevensie siblings Lucy (Georgie Healey) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) find themselves transported from WWII-era London to Narnia, with their obnoxious cousin, Eustace (Will Poulter), in...

• November 19, 2010
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Fantasy

The earliest moments of what I’ll just call HP7 (like the posters) set the level of emotion that manages to carry relentlessly through the whole first half of this...

• November 8, 2010
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy

I’m always surprised by how few of our favorite movies are actually reviewed on The Pie, but it makes sense.  How do you begin to discuss something that has...

• 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 19, 2010
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Comedy

As a Pixar superfan, I was very much looking forward to this sequel, which took some eleven years to get to the screen, and I was not disappointed. The...

• 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...