• November 27, 2012
• Animation, At Home

After a quiet evening spent making Christmas cards, Sister Theresa (voiced by Angela Lansbury) glances out the window and sees a young boy standing under a tree as it...

• November 19, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Family

After the surprisingly excellent How to Train Your Dragon, Dreamworks Animation scores another winner with Rise of the Guardians. Though it may not reach quite the soaring heights of...

• November 2, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

Set in the world of video games old and new, Disney’s latest offering blends nostalgia and high-energy antics to create the story of its titular oaf (voiced by John...

• October 5, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Drama

In the film, young Victor Frankenstein is preparing for his school’s science fair when his pet pooch, Sparky, is accidentally hit by a car and killed. Despondent, and inspired...

• September 28, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Comedy

In the film, Sandler voices Dracula, who’s hung up his bloodsucking cape to operate an exclusive, no-humans-allowed resort for the world’s weary monsters. He’s also an overprotective father to...

• September 26, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Television

If you grew up watching Tom and Jerry endlessly trying to kill and/or annoy one another, you have a pretty good idea of what’s in store with Tom and...

• September 26, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Documentary

StoryCorps is an interview project that aims to record and preserve the stories of all types of Americans, from all sorts of backgrounds. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and...

• September 23, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Family

Like all animated films of the 1980s, Hanna Barbera’s Heidi’s Song is a striking blend of adorable idyllic adventures and mind-bending psychedelia. I can only think that a generation...

• September 23, 2012
• Action, Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

Here’s one of my favorite things about this grrrrl-power, action-comedy from Pixar: I honestly had no idea what it was about when I sat down to watch. The filmmakers,...

• November 29, 2011
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Drama

A co-production with legendary Aardman Animations, the film is a welcome addition to the Christmas-movie oeuvre and will likely become a seasonal favourite, destined to rerun every December alongside...

• April 1, 2011
• Animation, At Home, Family

Is it the most sophisticated live-action/animated film ever? No. Will it win the Best Animated Feature Oscar next year? Highly doubtful. But is it fun and harmless and entertaining?...

• March 1, 2011
• Animation, At Home, Drama, Family

When I finally watched Bambi as an adult, I was struck not only by the beautiful animation, but by the sneakily educational storyline. The film is formatted in a...