• December 24, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Dolphin Tale was a surprise hit family film with a heartwarming true story of an injured dolphin named Winter that finds a new lease on life with a prosthetic...

• August 6, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

There’s a thin line between cute and cutesy. The Disneynature film Bears wobbles on the line of being aimed squarely at tots, while being entertaining for anyone over the...

• July 9, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

OK, so right away when a kind pet-dad started talking about a disabled pig that he rescued, and that he named him Chris. P. Bacon, I just about had...

• April 2, 2014
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

There is a type of kid that I’ll call a dinosaur kid. Dinosaur kids LOVE dinosaurs. There obsession is admirable for a person of any age, and they can...

• March 16, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Documentary

Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and shot over more than two years at the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, the film trains its lens on a number of...

• February 8, 2014
• At Home, Drama

After about 15 minutes of watching Quill, I found myself scrambling for information on this film. Wait, is this a documentary? No, it actually isn’t. Quill: The Life of...

• December 26, 2013
• Adventure, At Home

William Wellman’s 1935 version of Call of the Wild has arguably been called the best adaptation of Jack London’s classic 1903 novel that took place in the Yukon during...

• December 1, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Let me just start by saying this: If I had watched Eight Below in the comfort and privacy of my own home, I would have been ugly-crying. None of...

• November 16, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

With all the cute critters out there in the critter world, it can easily be argued that a baby otter is in the pantheon of the cute-overload department. This...

• November 16, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

Now, OK, just the title alone is a dead giveaway that I would weep. I have friends that refuse to watch any animal movies with me for fear of...

• October 29, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Based on Marlen Haushofer’s 1962 feminist novel, The Wall is a quiet mood piece, quiet, contemplative, and more than a little chilling in parts. It is also, impressively, basically...

• October 22, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Family

We’ve all had those awkward moments where someone just shows up and won’t to go away. There’s something at once disarming and bewildering about these characters, and they often...