• February 13, 2008
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Comedy

A pretty white kitty named Duchess (seductively voiced by Eva Gabor) lives with her kittens in the mansion of her elderly Madame. I mean, I guess Madame is elderly,...

• February 10, 2008
• Adventure, At Home, Family

I happened to catch a trailer for the straight-to-video Snow Buddies tacked on to the end of another Disney DVD. I had heard of Air Bud, but honestly had...

• January 21, 2008
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Comedy

There’s nothing like an overly-complicated kid’s movie to make you feel like an absolute moron. There are so many things to like about Arthur and the Invisibles, but at...

• December 21, 2007
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Mystery

National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a movie that made my dad say, “I might have never seen a movie that dumb before.” Since my dad is smart, and...

• December 7, 2007
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

I have to admit, The Golden Compass left me a bit confused. It was in no small part due to the fact that I kept referring to it as...

• November 2, 2007
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Comedy

I don’t know anyone who was more excited to see this movie than I was. I love animated films. Anything by Pixar or the folks at Fox animation –...

• July 22, 2007
• Adventure, At Home, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Everyone knows that solar rays can be damaging, but the extent of the damage varies according to proximity, as the crew of Icarus II begins to realize during a...

• July 11, 2007
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Now that a solid handful of Harry Potter adaptations have made it to the big screen, I’m going to offer a theory. Any Trekkie knows that until, say movie...

• July 3, 2007
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Sweet mother of all that is good and pure in this world, Transformers is by far the best summer movie of the year. Hands. Down. Ahem, in short: I...

• November 1, 2006
• Action, Adventure, At Home

There are scenes in Gladiator that were directly lifted out of this Stanley Kubrick classic. The story of a slave who becomes a gladiator who becomes a general, and...

• February 10, 2006
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Here’s a movie that I saw a long, looooong time ago that left two indelible images in my mind: 1) a grotesque fat man flying around a room in...

• January 13, 2006
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Drama

Queen Latifah has a wonderful screen presence, and is often the best thing in some crappy movies (like the dreadfully dumb Bringing Down the House with Steve Martin). With...