• September 5, 2010
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Television

With a tighter, better-scripted storyline and mythology than True Blood (without all the ickiness and graphic sex), and with more of a scary edge than the Twilight series, The...

• December 18, 2009
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Avatar takes place sometime in the future (150 years-ish) when humans have decimated the resources of Earth, and now have shown up on the distant, lush moon called Pandora....

• November 22, 2009
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Unlike most Twilight fans, I’d consider myself Team Jacob (vs. Team Edward). And because of this, New Moon is probably my favorite of the books (like most who’ve read...

• October 23, 2009
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Directed by Paul Weitz (In Good Company), the story revolves around teenager Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia), whose strait-laced, hum-drum life is turned inside out when a freak show rolls...

• 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...

• April 17, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

17 Again wastes no time appeasing its target audience: In the opening sequence, we get to see Zac Efron shirtless (six-pack gleaming with sweat), shooting baskets with ease, smiling...

• 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...

• 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...

• November 28, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Let me get a few things out of the way before delving into my review of Twilight… Yes, I read the book and enjoyed it. Yes, I read the...

• November 26, 2008
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Fred Claus has issues. For one thing, he’s spent most of his life living in the shadow of his saintly brother, Nicholas (yes, Saint Nicholas, a rotund goody-goody of...

• October 12, 2008
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Based on the book by Jeanne Duprau, the story is set in a post-apocalyptic (?) future (?), where humanity (?) has been forced to live in a man-made underground...

• July 11, 2008
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

Back in 2004, director Guillermo del Toro helmed the first Hellboy movie to a moderate level of acclaim and fanboy delight. But back then, he was just the sorta-known...