• May 5, 2012
• Action, At Home, Family

Director Joss Whedon brings his trademark smarts and the sass – honed on iconic TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly – to this long-awaited big-screen teaming...

• December 23, 2011
• At Home, Drama, Family

Unapologetically sweet and sappy, and the epitome of a feel-good movie for the holidays, director Cameron Crowe’s dramedy is predictable, obvious… and totally made my heart feel all warm...

• September 24, 2011
• At Home, Drama, Family

A lonely boy finds an injured dolphin on the beach. She is horribly tangled and bleeding, caught in a rope that holds a crab pot. She has given up,...

• April 1, 2011
• Animation, At Home, Family

Is it the most sophisticated live-action/animated film ever? No. Will it win the Best Animated Feature Oscar next year? Highly doubtful. But is it fun and harmless and entertaining?...

• March 1, 2011
• Animation, At Home, Drama, Family

When I finally watched Bambi as an adult, I was struck not only by the beautiful animation, but by the sneakily educational storyline. The film is formatted in a...

• December 11, 2010
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

This time around, youngest Pevensie siblings Lucy (Georgie Healey) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) find themselves transported from WWII-era London to Narnia, with their obnoxious cousin, Eustace (Will Poulter), in...

• November 19, 2010
• At Home, Comedy, Family

Precocious Joey King stars as precocious Ramona Quimby, a girl who doesn’t just march to the beat of her own drummer, she cartwheels to it. Often misunderstood – especially...

• September 1, 2010
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family

I would just like to refute the notion that Author! Author! is a stinky Al Pacino movie. Maybe the people who said it was didn’t see Gigli. Maybe they...

• August 21, 2010
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Family

For those unversed in the world of The Last Airbender (like myself), this is what I roughly figured out from the film. The movie is based on a Nickelodeon...

• March 26, 2010
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Family

I went into How to Train Your Dragon with absolutely no expectations. Zero. Nada. But by the time the closing credits were winding up, I found myself loitering in...

• March 17, 2010
• Adventure, At Home, Family

Where the Wild Things Are, the book by Maurice Sendak, is a story that is wedged into millions of people’s imaginations already, with its big friendly beasties and young...

• December 28, 2009
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

An inarguable masterpiece of gentle, sweet storytelling combined with gorgeous hand-drawn animation, My Neighbor Totoro is an indisputable classic of anime from famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki and his...