• September 21, 2016
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

There is not really any reason why Snow White and the Huntsman needed a sequel. It did well at the box office, but wasn’t a HUGE hit, and it...

• December 28, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

After a pretty spectacular start, with a three-master pirate schooner literally sailing through the air in the midst of a WWII London blitz (cool!), I was giving this movie the...

• 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...

• December 27, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy

Wild Flowers is based on seven stories, but the first one is over within five minutes of the beginning. A woman dies in a thunderstorm and is buried. Her...

• December 23, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Music

Based on the 1987 Tony-nominated Broadway musical of the same name, Into the Woods shows what could happen if you threw a bunch of fairy tale characters together in...

• June 18, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is a sweet farm boy (farm teen?) who yearns for adventure. He grew up listening to tales of giants coming down from their kingdom “between heaven...

• March 5, 2013
• At Home, Fantasy

Perhaps director Sam Raimi’s biggest obstacle in this epic prequel to The Wizard of Oz is his choice of leading man. As Oscar “Oz” Diggs, a magician-slash-con man working...

• March 3, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

The film, which blends live action and heaps of CGI, finds a 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returning to Wonderland – a place she’d grown to believe was just a...

• March 3, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Family, Fantasy

Watching the 1966 BBC production of Alice In Wonderland is not so much an exercise in entertainment as it is an adventure in literary and film history.  Ostensibly, it’s...

• September 25, 2012
• Action, At Home, Drama, Fantasy

Sprawling in scope and Tolkiensian in execution, Snow… takes the classic fairy tale and turns it into a grittier, darker story about the titular tomboyish princess (a miscast Kristen...

• September 23, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Television

The town of Storybrooke, Maine is like any town. People have real jobs, do everyday things, and have pretty boring lives. But a little boy named Henry (Jared Gilmore),...

• September 23, 2012
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

I admit, I steered clear of Mirror Mirror entirely because what I call The Julia Roberts Factor. No, I am not a fan, and have always been baffled by...