• December 1, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Let me just start by saying this: If I had watched Eight Below in the comfort and privacy of my own home, I would have been ugly-crying. None of...

• November 21, 2013
• Adventure, Animation, At Home

As Disney movies go, The Jungle Book will never be my favorite. Like Peter Pan, it lacks a linear storyline, and consequently feels messy and neverending. It’s the kind...

• November 8, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Chris Hemsworth is pretty, I’ll admit that. Pretty enough where he is becoming another Matthew McConaughey, where he is required at least one gratuitous shirtless scene in each movie...

• October 27, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Drama

What a stroke of luck for the filmmakers to have Felicity Huffman as the lead in Transamerica! Cast by director Duncan Tucker just before Huffman began filming the pilot...

• October 27, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Now give me a moment as I go back and re-read my reviews of the previous Transformers films, which I will just call Transformers and Transformers 2. Hmm… there...

• October 27, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

As I staggered out of the theater after seeing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I was asked what I thought of the movie. I wailed in dismay, “I am...

• October 26, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

I’m not usually a huge sci-fi fan, but something about John Carter looked like fun from the get-go.  Indeed, the movie gets off to a rollicking start as Carter...

• October 25, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Western

Mush-mouthed and cantankerous, Rooster Cogburn has little time for fools, but recognizes a tough character when he sees one. When 14-year-old headstrong Mattie Ross (newcomer Hailee Steinfeld) approaches him...

• October 25, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Western

John Wayne is so embedded in American lore as a gunslinging Western hero, that anyone can imitate his wide drawl and bowlegged stance without ever having seen one of...

• September 8, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama, Romance, War

Hanover Street was recommended to me by the same co-worker who told me to watch 3 Days of the Condor. I cannot believe she felt the need to qualify...

• September 8, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Family

As someone who grew up watching Sesame Street, I never gave a second thought to the diversity represented on the show: it was simply the way it was. There...

• August 31, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Western

If I may be so bold as to quote myself, I believe I said that seeing all the corruption in Serpico made me want to go live in a...