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

Goofy as The Muppet Show may be, it serves as an amazing time capsule for the late 70s and early 80s. As I peeled the plastic off the DVD...

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

It’s as good as it looks and, more importantly, even better than you hope it’ll be. Like the kooky, colorful characters at its core, it’s simultaneously sweet, funny, silly,...

• August 14, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

If you were wondering why I bother to write movie reviews, part of it is because movie reviewing has long been dominated my men. Some of them are wonderful...

• August 3, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Horror

For whatever reason, I’ve never been big on zombie movies. I think it makes me mad that the zombies move so slowly yet somehow create all sorts of carnage....

• July 25, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza), high school class valedictorian, is an uptight nerd, as are most smarty-pants in the movies. Always organized, she has a checklist of things to accomplish...

• July 19, 2013
• Action, At Home, Comedy

Hollow, unfunny and astoundingly dull, this big-screen adaptation of the Dark Horse comic finds two mismatched officers of the afterlife’s “Rest in Peace Department” – crotchety gunslinger Roy (Jeff...

• July 7, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Liam James stars (in the Chris Makepeace role) as Duncan, an introverted 14-year-old, who’s dragged along when his well-meaning mom (Toni Collette) and her asshat boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell,...

• July 3, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Family

This isn’t so much a crossover comedy like Beverly Hills Chihuahua which will strangely have the power to charm every member of your family, regardless of age, and it’s...

• July 2, 2013
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Western

As Hollywood continues to mine the vaults of our collective pop-culture past for new (old) ideas, relaunching The Lone Ranger probably didn’t sound like a bad idea: The Wild...

• June 28, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

There is nothing original about the cop buddy movie The Heat. There is an uptight cop and a crazy cop, and there is a bad guy that no one...

• June 26, 2013
• At Home, Comedy

When you’re a lonely little kid who gets kicked around by bullies and just can’t seem to fit in, it’s a pretty big day when you make a new...

• 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...