• February 21, 2014
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Television

The Simpsons have become such a ubiquitous part of pop culture that it’s easy to forget that new episodes are still being made, deliberately, with the same edgy humor...

• February 8, 2014
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

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...

• November 25, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Family

Anyone who grew up in the 70s or 80s has a soft spot for the educational cartoons Schoolhouse Rock! Now that complete sets of all the original shorts have...

• 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 17, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

I’m never sure whether I should admit that I totally didn’t get a children’s movie. It either means I’m simple and have no attention span, or it’s a red...

• October 25, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

Barnyard introduces us to a community of farm animals that are known to party hearty as soon as the farmer turns his back. But this is no ordinary farm—and...

• October 22, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Family

We’ve all had those awkward moments where someone just shows up and won’t to go away. There’s something at once disarming and bewildering about these characters, and they often...

• July 18, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Family

Turbo (née Theo and voiced by Ryan Reynolds) is a snail with a dream: he wants to be fast. So fast that he might stand shoulder to shell with...

• June 19, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Comedy

Monsters University is the prequel to Monsters Inc., a movie I sort of didn’t get. Apart from the endearing animation, I found the story somehow convoluted and generic at...

• 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...

• March 22, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Comedy

Neanderthal Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage) is the patriarch of the titular clan and suffers from a raging case of change-phobia. Everything new is bad and scary; everything known...

• 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...