Adventure Reviews

Adventure

Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)

Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)

There is a type of kid that I’ll call a dinosaur kid. Dinosaur kids LOVE dinosaurs. There obsession is admirable for a person of any age, and they can...

Linda
Against the Wild (2014)

Against the Wild (2014)

It’s never fair to judge a children’s movie by adult standards, so I’m going to consider Against the Wild from a kid’s point of view, or at least from...

Jennifer
African Cats (2011)

African Cats (2011)

Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and shot over more than two years at the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, the film trains its lens on a number of...

Vickie
The 300 Spartans (1962)

The 300 Spartans (1962)

Apparently, as a kid, Frank Miller saw the 1962 swords-and-sandals epic The 300 Spartans, and it stuck in his impressionable craw. Fast forward a few decades, and pop culture’s...

Linda
Gladiator (2000)

Gladiator (2000)

This is an Epic with a capital “E”, that’s for sure. Swords, and tigers, and blood, oh my! Actually, a lot of blood. Muddy armies hacking each other to...

Linda
Touching the Void

Touching the Void

You know, I don’t want to say, “It serves them right,” but there is something about extreme mountain climbing where when something horrible happens, I just want to say,...

Linda
Batman Begins (2005)

Batman Begins (2005)

Batman Begins is, obviously, the story of how Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.  As a child he falls into a well full of bats.  Haunted by the experience, Bruce freaks...

Jennifer
101 Dalmatians (1961)

101 Dalmatians (1961)

101 Dalmatians is what I consider to be one of Disney’s Dodgy Classics. It’s cute and familiar, but it doesn’t have the substance of the Classic Classics, which offer...

Jennifer
Babylon A.D. (2008)

Babylon A.D. (2008)

Babylon A.D. has an interesting sci-fi premise, mixing religious hope with what looks like the end of the world, features a bunch of cool international actors (like Michelle Yeoh...

Linda
North to Alaska (1960)

North to Alaska (1960)

It is 1900, Nome, Alaska, where a gold rush is in full swing. Sam McCord (John Wayne) and his buddy George Pratt (Stewart Granger) have done just fine (which...

Linda
Call of the Wild (1935)

Call of the Wild (1935)

William Wellman’s 1935 version of Call of the Wild has arguably been called the best adaptation of Jack London’s classic 1903 novel that took place in the Yukon during...

Linda
Everybody's Fine

Everybody’s Fine

Everybody’s Fine is not your typical cheery, laugh-a-minute holiday movie.  Instead, the film touches on love, loss, disappointment, and reconciliation.  It feels a lot like real life and is...

Jennifer