• June 20, 2025
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Science Fiction

Elio (Yonas Kibreab) can’t seem to fit in since his parents died. He butts heads with his Aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña), a harried military officer who is doing the...

• March 21, 2025
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy, Music

I was having a really bad week when I headed into the screening of Snow White alone. I hadn’t been able to convince anyone to join me, as the...

• March 6, 2020
• Animation, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Onward’s backdrop is the idea that magic, which once saturated the world with wonder and spectacle, has been siphoned away over the centuries by technology and, well, general apathy....

• November 22, 2019
• Animation, At Home, Family

Full disclosure: I thought the original Frozen was just okay. I saw it on DVD back in 2014 – after having heard the endless hype for months – and,...

• November 8, 2019
• Animation, At Home, Drama, Family

I have to admit, I thought the original Lion King was kind of terrifying. The way Scar orchestrates King Mufasa’s death is terrible and upsetting to watch, and there...

• March 12, 2019
• Action, Animation, At Home, Family

SYNOPSIS: Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part...

• September 13, 2016
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Pete’s Dragon is one of those dubious Disney classics that seems great when you’re a kid, but doesn’t quite stand the test of time. I remember watching it over...

• July 9, 2016
• At Home, Documentary

When recounting how his vivacious, chatty toddler suddenly changed, father Ron Suskind remembers, “All of a sudden, at 3 years old, Owen vanishes. The doctor says, ‘Let me explain...

• June 12, 2015
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

When her idyllic family moves to San Francisco from Minnesota, 12-year-old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is put into a bit of a spin. What may appear to everyone else as...

• March 13, 2015
• At Home, Family

One of the nicest things about the Cinderella reboot is that it offers more back-story around every aspect of the plot. We meet Cinderella (actually named Ella, and played...

• March 1, 2015
• At Home, Comedy, Family, Music, Romance

Apparently there is a whole genre of Cinderella-with-a-twist films out there. Looking at the producer’s of this film’s credits, for instance, shows involvement with A Cinderella Story, Another Cinderella...

• November 14, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

Co-directed by Jeff Sherman (Robert’s son) and Greg Sherman (Richard’s son), this fascinating and moving documentary chronicles the brothers’ lives from childhood to present day, highlighting their greatest achievements,...