• June 20, 2025
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Science Fiction

Elio (Yonas Kibreab) can’t seem to fit in since his parents died. He butts heads with his Aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña), a harried military officer who is doing the...

• December 13, 2024
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Fantasy

I always joke that “unlikely animal friends” is my favorite genre of mood-enhancing, brain-melting YouTube videos. Show me a sweet little video of ducklings nestling up to a mama...

• March 6, 2020
• Animation, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Onward’s backdrop is the idea that magic, which once saturated the world with wonder and spectacle, has been siphoned away over the centuries by technology and, well, general apathy....

• December 23, 2019
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

To backtrack: Lance is considered the world’s greatest spy. He can extricate himself from any situation with skill, finesse and borderline-superhuman athleticism, and he’s revered by his colleagues at...

• November 22, 2019
• Animation, At Home, Family

Full disclosure: I thought the original Frozen was just okay. I saw it on DVD back in 2014 – after having heard the endless hype for months – and,...

• November 8, 2019
• Animation, At Home, Drama, Family

I have to admit, I thought the original Lion King was kind of terrifying. The way Scar orchestrates King Mufasa’s death is terrible and upsetting to watch, and there...

• June 7, 2019
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

This time around, amiable dogs Max (voiced by Patton Oswalt, taking over from Louis C.K. for obvious reasons) and Duke (voiced by Eric Stonestreet) are living happily with their...

• March 12, 2019
• Action, Animation, At Home, Family

SYNOPSIS: Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part...

• February 16, 2018
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

Let me start out by saying that I don’t think any film, long or short, has made me laugh harder than Aardman Animation’s Wallace and Gromit in the Wrong...

• June 30, 2017
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

This time around, Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) finds himself on the outs with the Anti-Villain League (AVL) and its hard-nosed new boss (voiced by Jenny Slate), who fires...

• June 29, 2017
• Animation, At Home, Comedy

I very much enjoyed The LEGO Movie, from that damn catchy earworm theme song “Everything is Awesome!” to the subversively funny and delightful script. Hands down, the scene-stealer from...

• November 30, 2016
• Animation, At Home, Family

Stick Man, as you might imagine, is an actual stick who lives in a tree with his stick wife and two stick children. They share meals, play outside, and...