• December 10, 2009
• Adventure, At Home, Family

Now, call me a freak, but I kind of enjoy the Buddies series of movies. You know, these straight-to-video spawn of Air Bud family flicks that follow the doggy...

• November 27, 2009
• Animation, At Home, Family

Of all the Disney classics, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has to be one of the hardest to dissect from a critical perspective. As Disney’s first feature length...

• November 25, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Family

I mean, I dramatically lowered my expectations before sitting down in the theater, and I knew the film probably wouldn’t be very good, but nothing prepared me for the...

• July 27, 2009
• At Home, Drama, Family

Mary White is the true tale of a feisty, opinionated young woman who loved fast horses.  Sometimes she was so feisty and opinionated that it seemed as though someone...

• July 15, 2009
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

As I’ve admitted in past Harry Potter movie reviews, I still have (at this point) not read the books. It still holds true that I’ve only finished the first...

• May 22, 2009
• Action, At Home, Family

It’s two years later (in movie time) and Larry Daley (Ben Stiller, deadpan and befuddled in the perfect way) has abandoned his security gig at NYC’s Museum of Natural...

• April 19, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Music

Now that I’ve seen Hannah Montana: The Movie, I can actually answer that pesky question that haunts many people over the age of 13: What up with this Hannah...

• April 1, 2009
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Like many little fans of The Muppet Show, I could not wait to see The Dark Crystal when it came out… and then I did. And it messed me...

• March 14, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family

I’ve been mocked wholeheartedly for enjoying (despite my initial resistance) Snow Buddies, which is one of the many straight-to-video sequels spawned by this original Disney hit. “Come on!” I...

• January 29, 2009
• At Home, Drama, Family, Fantasy

A Lobster Tale is an odd little misfit of a movie about an odd little misfit family who discovers some odd little misfit moss. It’s not light-hearted enough to...

• January 29, 2009
• At Home, Drama, Family

As soon as I heard the title of this film, I knew I had to see it: The Secret of the Magic Gourd. (Would this surprise anyone who knows...

• December 28, 2008
• Animation, At Home, Family

Unlike some of the more recently wonderous and often dark films by Hayao Miyazaki (like Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke), Ponyo is squarely for the My Neighbor Totoro set…...