• December 28, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

After a pretty spectacular start, with a three-master pirate schooner literally sailing through the air in the midst of a WWII London blitz (cool!), I was giving this movie the...

• August 20, 2015
• Animation, At Home, Family

Princess Rose (Sleeping Beauty) has spent her life trying to escape the curse of an evil witch which dooms her to prick her finger on the needle of a...

• July 10, 2015
• At Home, Family, Romance, Television

This installment finds the widows of Coal Valley suing the mining company for negligence, but this bold step forward stirs up even more conflict for the town. Meanwhile, our...

• June 29, 2015
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

Steve Carell voices Gru, an increasingly irrelevant evildoer who aspires to be the biggest and best badass on the planet by shrinking the moon with a ray gun, and...

• June 12, 2015
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

When her idyllic family moves to San Francisco from Minnesota, 12-year-old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is put into a bit of a spin. What may appear to everyone else as...

• April 15, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

As someone whose entire appreciation of Mark Twain’s work comes from movies, I wholeheartedly support adapting his classic novels for film. Without the 1973 version of Tom Sawyer or...

• March 15, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

In fact, the paper-thin yawner of a plot might be summed up thusly: Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) and his smart-ass teenaged son (Skyler Gisondo) travel to England and run...

• March 13, 2015
• At Home, Family

One of the nicest things about the Cinderella reboot is that it offers more back-story around every aspect of the plot. We meet Cinderella (actually named Ella, and played...

• March 1, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

I admit I was afraid to watch this for a long time because I was sure that the dog would die in the end. This is a slight spoiler,...

• March 1, 2015
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Music, Romance

Apparently there is a whole genre of Cinderella-with-a-twist films out there. Looking at the producer’s of this film’s credits, for instance, shows involvement with A Cinderella Story, Another Cinderella...

• November 20, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Family

Oliver and June are two sweet kids eagerly anticipating the Christmas season. Their mom is diligently working on a Christmas pageant, but their father, EB, has lost the Christmas...

• November 14, 2014
• At Home, Family, Television

If you grew up in the 1980s, chances are you were familiar with ALF (and perhaps thought he was the funniest cat-eating alien on earth). If you’re anything like...