• August 15, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Family

Revisiting The Muppet Movie was a strange experience for me. Though I remembered it fondly, my sense of excited nostalgia was tainted by a vague feeling of dread. Too...

• June 18, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is a sweet farm boy (farm teen?) who yearns for adventure. He grew up listening to tales of giants coming down from their kingdom “between heaven...

• May 22, 2013
• Adventure, Animation, At Home

The story centers on teenager M.K. (voiced by Amanda Seyfried), who – after the death of her mother – goes to live with her estranged, eccentric-scientist father (voiced by...

• May 20, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

We start this journey at the apex of an already-in-progress mission where Spock (Zachary Quinto) cites the Prime Directive a few times in the first couple minutes. Once again...

• May 20, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Oh, yeah, I can hear it already: “What a cranky-pants! She doesn’t know how to enjoy a silly sci-fi action movie! She’s such a purist, she was probably picking...

• May 9, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Baz Luhrmann, I can see what you were trying to do in the epic Australia, a Technicolor homage to your beloved homeland. A swarthy scoundrel clashes with a frosty...

• April 21, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Someone needs to give Christian Bale a sandwich and some diet counseling. If this guy continues to gain and lose alarming amounts of poundage for movie roles (see also...

• April 19, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, a service tech working on a decimated Earth some 65 years in the future, who’s plagued by dreams of a dark-haired woman in...

• March 3, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

The film, which blends live action and heaps of CGI, finds a 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returning to Wonderland – a place she’d grown to believe was just a...

• March 3, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Directed by Nimród Antal (Kontroll, Vacancy), the film drops – literally – an eclectic band of “predatory” humans on the home planet of everyone’s favorite eviscerating aliens of years...

• February 12, 2013
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

I was one of those kids who liked all the educational stuff on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, but always got fidgety when he dragged us along to The Neighborhood of...

• February 12, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Thriller

Literally crashing and smashing and bashing his way through the entire film like the Hulk, Bond leaves carnage and destruction in his wake… which, unfortunately, seems fitting given that...