• December 4, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Told in flashbacks and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club), Wild tells the true story of Strayed’s 1995 solo trek along 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail....

• November 20, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Hercules (Dwayne Johnson), half-man/half-god (or so we are told), is famous across ancient Greece for his amazing feats of strength and badassery. Still, he doesn’t want the accolades or...

• November 11, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

It is five years after the events of How to Train Your Dragon (a film I loved so much, it topped my Best of 2010 list). Vikings and dragons now...

• November 7, 2014
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

Our scrappy hero Hiro is a smart but unfocused teen. He gambles with his creations on the robot-fighting circuit, while his idolized elder brother Tadashi excels in college. Just...

• October 21, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Things are a little tense in the realm of perpetually feuding Greek gods Zeus (Sean Bean), Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) and Hades (Steve Coogan). The bickering brothers have long been...

• August 24, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Drama

I settled in to watch The Hunting Party with a mixture of trepidation and anticipation. On the one hand, I usually like anything starring Richard Gere, and on the...

• July 25, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Mystery

There has been so much fuss about how Sky Captain was made, that you go into the film with pre-set expectations. We have all seen CGI animation in film,...

• July 24, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Drama, War

For starters, I couldn’t quite tell whether Clooney’s latest directorial effort – an amiable but somewhat forgettable WWII picture about a rag-tag group of art-loving guys tasked with recovering,...

• May 6, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

North Face promises—and delivers—all the token movie-poster exclamations: Romance! Adventure! Danger! Death! And, yes, even Nazis! Based a true story, North Face tells the tale of two Germans and...

• May 6, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Crime

Everett (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro), and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) are cons on the run from the law, after they make their great escape from the chain gang...

• April 18, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Drama

Ben Stiller (who also directs) stars as the titular character, a one-time mohawked teenaged skateboarder, who deflated into a bland, working-stiff adult life after the death of his father....

• April 8, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

The Hobbit Part 2 picks up with a cantina scene right out of Star Wars. Thorin (Richard Armitage), the Dwarf King, sits down for some grog, fully aware that...