• September 9, 2013
• At Home, Drama

If any film arrived at the Seattle International Film Festival with advance buzz, Whale Rider would be it. The winner of the Audience Awards at both the Sundance and...

• 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...

• June 13, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

Lil Bub is a tiny tabby with deformed legs, extra toes, no teeth, buggy eyes, an overbite, and a perpetually protruding tongue. She is also an internet sensation. One...

• December 1, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

After watching The Hunter, my movie buddy and I discussed, marveled rather, that such a movie got made at all. On the surface, The Hunter has a Hollywood-y plot...

• November 24, 2012
• At Home, Documentary

Narrated by James Earl Jones (taking over for Patrick Stewart) and blessed with breathtaking cinematography, the film aims to teach audiences – in as subtle as a way as...

• November 14, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Told in flashbacks, the film follows the journey, both literal and figurative, of its titular character (Suraj Sharma), whose life in India is upended when his father (Adil Hussain)...

• September 26, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Romance, Western

The Horse Whisperer opens with a scene of cheerful tranquility as Grace and Judith (Scarlett Johannsen and Kate Bosworth) lead their horses out for a snowy morning ride. It...

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

In this BBC series, we meet such critters as Spinosaurus, the largest dinosaur predator ever to have walked the Earth. With his spiny back and strong jaws, Spinosaurus was...

• 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,...

• 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,...

• February 14, 2010
• At Home, Comedy

After the success of the original Air Bud movie, which was about a dog who could play basketball, and the boy who loved him, the powers that be I’m...