• 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...

• March 3, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

The film, which blends live action and heaps of CGI, finds a 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returning to Wonderland – a place she’d grown to believe was just a...

• March 3, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Family, Fantasy

Watching the 1966 BBC production of Alice In Wonderland is not so much an exercise in entertainment as it is an adventure in literary and film history.  Ostensibly, it’s...

• February 12, 2013
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

I was one of those kids who liked all the educational stuff on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, but always got fidgety when he dragged us along to The Neighborhood of...

• December 22, 2012
• Action, At Home, Family

Speed Racer may just be this generation’s new Tron. No… wait… I take that back. Tron, though notably a kind of stinky movie, was still certainly a memorable film...

• November 19, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Family

After the surprisingly excellent How to Train Your Dragon, Dreamworks Animation scores another winner with Rise of the Guardians. Though it may not reach quite the soaring heights of...

• November 2, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

Set in the world of video games old and new, Disney’s latest offering blends nostalgia and high-energy antics to create the story of its titular oaf (voiced by John...

• September 24, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Family

Tara (Debby Ryan) is a quiet kid at her high school in always-sunny Seattle (har!). She freezes up when her teachers call on her, and she has a huge...

• September 23, 2012
• At Home, Family, Television

Somewhere in the borderland between Mind-Bendingly Awesome and Flat-Out Terrible lies a world in which Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp exists. This strange series aired on Saturday Mornings from 1970-1972,...

• September 23, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

I can only imagine that the inventors of 3D would have been so pleased one of the more unique ways that Journey 2: The Mysterious Island uses the technology....

• September 23, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Family

Like all animated films of the 1980s, Hanna Barbera’s Heidi’s Song is a striking blend of adorable idyllic adventures and mind-bending psychedelia. I can only think that a generation...

• September 23, 2012
• Action, Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

Here’s one of my favorite things about this grrrrl-power, action-comedy from Pixar: I honestly had no idea what it was about when I sat down to watch. The filmmakers,...