• April 15, 2016
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

Anyone who has read my reviews knows that I don’t mind me a talking animal movie. Heck, I don’t even mind if said chatty creatures are Golden Retriever puppies...

• March 6, 2016
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

In the Heart of the Sea is based on a book about a book, or, rather, the story behind the story that became Herman Melville’s American classic Moby Dick....

• January 25, 2016
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Thriller

Based on the true story of an ill-fated 1996 climbing expedition on the titular mountain – during which a violent storm blew in and took the lives of eight...

• December 28, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

After a pretty spectacular start, with a three-master pirate schooner literally sailing through the air in the midst of a WWII London blitz (cool!), I was giving this movie the...

• November 22, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Admittedly, I haven’t been too impressed with the Hobbit trilogy. Though The Lord of the Rings was a freakishly long series of films, at least it was dense with...

• June 12, 2015
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

When her idyllic family moves to San Francisco from Minnesota, 12-year-old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is put into a bit of a spin. What may appear to everyone else as...

• April 15, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

As someone whose entire appreciation of Mark Twain’s work comes from movies, I wholeheartedly support adapting his classic novels for film. Without the 1973 version of Tom Sawyer or...

• March 15, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

In fact, the paper-thin yawner of a plot might be summed up thusly: Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) and his smart-ass teenaged son (Skyler Gisondo) travel to England and run...

• March 1, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

I admit I was afraid to watch this for a long time because I was sure that the dog would die in the end. This is a slight spoiler,...

• December 27, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Director Sean Penn delivers a thoughtful, somber, enlightening and occasionally exuberant drama with his big-screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name, which tells the true story...

• December 27, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Documentary

There is something about man (and woman) against the elements that speaks to the adventurer in all of us, even if armchair adventure is all we can handle. I’m...

• December 24, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Dolphin Tale was a surprise hit family film with a heartwarming true story of an injured dolphin named Winter that finds a new lease on life with a prosthetic...