• May 8, 2026
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Mystery

People who know me well know that I’m not joking when I tell them that Babe should have won the 1996 Oscar for Best Picture over Braveheart. Sometimes a...

• August 8, 2025
• At Home, Comedy, Family

Set 22 years after the 2003 hit comedy Freaky Friday, Freakier Friday plops us back into the lives of mom-and-daughter duo Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna (Lindsay Lohan)....

• March 21, 2025
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy, Music

I was having a really bad week when I headed into the screening of Snow White alone. I hadn’t been able to convince anyone to join me, as the...

• October 13, 2020
• At Home, Drama, Family, Fantasy

SYNOPSIS: When Mary Lennox’s parents suddenly die, she is sent to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, on his remote country estate deep in the Yorkshire moors. While exploring,...

• 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...

• December 14, 2019
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Family

This time around, our teenaged heroes – geeky Spencer (Alex Wolff), athlete Fridge (Ser’Darius Blain), now-do-gooder Bethany (Madison Iseman) and now-confident Martha (Morgan Turner) – are all coming home...

• 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...

• April 16, 2019
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is an ordinary 12-year-old boy, if a bit earnest and solemn for his years. He seems to have the weight of the world on his...

• April 8, 2019
• At Home, Family, Fantasy

The House with a Clock in Its Walls was one of those pre-YA books that I remember as a kid. I may or may not have read it, but...