• June 19, 2010
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Comedy

As a Pixar superfan, I was very much looking forward to this sequel, which took some eleven years to get to the screen, and I was not disappointed. The...

• May 6, 2010
• Animation, At Home, Science Fiction

Synopsis: Helmed by world-renowned anime directors, The Animatrix is a collection of nine original short films conceived by the Wachowski Brothers, the creators of The Matrix. This spectacularly visual...

• December 28, 2009
• Animation, At Home, Drama, War

It’s a shame that this film is only well-known in its native country of Japan and by discerning international fans of anime. In the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), it...

• December 28, 2009
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

An inarguable masterpiece of gentle, sweet storytelling combined with gorgeous hand-drawn animation, My Neighbor Totoro is an indisputable classic of anime from famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki and his...

• November 28, 2009
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Drama

Raise your hand if you loved The Polar Express! Is your hand up? Stay here. Is your arm pressed closely to your side while you make a cringey face?...

• November 27, 2009
• Animation, At Home, Family

Of all the Disney classics, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has to be one of the hardest to dissect from a critical perspective. As Disney’s first feature length...

• July 11, 2009
• Action, Adventure, Animation, At Home

The best thing about Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the introduction, which served as a trailer for the film, and plays like a fabulous short film. Scrat...

• May 29, 2009
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Comedy

Filled with spectacular art direction and ever-clever writing, Up tells the story of elderly balloon vendor Walter Fredricksen (voiced by Ed Asner), who decides to fulfill a life-long promise...

• April 24, 2009
• Adventure, Animation, At Home

Superman has gone through so many pop-culture incarnations, from the campy television shows with George Reeves in ill-fitting tights, to the super-sleek (and still tight) costume of the most...

• April 1, 2009
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Like many little fans of The Muppet Show, I could not wait to see The Dark Crystal when it came out… and then I did. And it messed me...

• March 24, 2009
• Action, Adventure, Animation, At Home

For some reason, a feature length Wonder Woman movie has floundered for decades. As Batman, Superman, and other super (and not so super) heroes got their big-screen treatment, the...

• December 28, 2008
• Animation, At Home, Family

Unlike some of the more recently wonderous and often dark films by Hayao Miyazaki (like Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke), Ponyo is squarely for the My Neighbor Totoro set…...