• July 11, 2007
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Now that a solid handful of Harry Potter adaptations have made it to the big screen, I’m going to offer a theory. Any Trekkie knows that until, say movie...

• April 8, 2007
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family

In what is an even finer example of lowest-common-denominator filmmaking than its insipid predecessor, Are We There Yet? (which, coincidentally, I also hated), this alleged “family film” dumbs itself...

• December 18, 2006
• Action, At Home, Family

Ben Stiller is Larry Daley, a divorced dad who’s suffered a string of bad ideas that led to crappy jobs, multiple relocations and assorted disappointments for his pre-teen son,...

• December 17, 2006
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music

Until I watched the DVD, my familiarity with High School Musical was with basically one scene in the film. One scene that was on every time I turned on...

• November 26, 2006
• At Home, Drama, Family

The day I write this, Akeelah and the Bee has an 84% postive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which basically makes me look like the biggest ass on the planet....

• November 22, 2006
• At Home, Comedy, Family

Like a steaming cinematic turd, this hollow and horrible Christmas comedy arrives on screens just in time to disappoint families for the holidays. I’m not sure what happened to...

• February 8, 2006
• Action, At Home, Drama, Family

Bambi II (yikes, what a wretched title) is a harmless, straight-to-video story that  feeds off nostalgia for the classic original, while offering some new characters. Luckily, it is so...

• December 21, 2005
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Family

Okay, maybe not really nine thousand, but it sure felt like there were way more of them than there were the first time we encountered the Baker clan. Sadly,...

• November 23, 2005
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Romance

Now, I don’t have cable, so I’ve never actually watched Nickelodeon… but I am savvy enough in the ways of pop culture to know that there is apparently a...

• November 20, 2005
• At Home, Drama, Family, Music

I would forgo a plot summary for The Sound of Music, but a recent confession from one of my very best friends proves that it’s necessary. She’s never actually...

• November 18, 2005
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

The first two Harry Potter films, directed by Chris Columbus (of Home Alone infamy) left me restless and glassy-eyed. The films sure looked great, but they were missing a...

• October 17, 2005
• Animation, At Home, Family

OK, I’ll allow you to pick up the limited edition of this one at the store as it is packaged with a Winnie-the-Pooh plushie. Pooh is actually wearing a...