• May 22, 2013
• Adventure, Animation, At Home

The story centers on teenager M.K. (voiced by Amanda Seyfried), who – after the death of her mother – goes to live with her estranged, eccentric-scientist father (voiced by...

• March 22, 2013
• Animation, At Home, Comedy

Neanderthal Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage) is the patriarch of the titular clan and suffers from a raging case of change-phobia. Everything new is bad and scary; everything known...

• September 26, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy

Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton co-star as happily married Cindy and Jim Green, who have given up the hope of having children after numerous fertility treatments fail to yield...

• 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,...

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

I can only imagine that the inventors of 3D would have been so pleased one of the more unique ways that Journey 2: The Mysterious Island uses the technology....

• September 23, 2012
• Animation, At Home, Family

Like all animated films of the 1980s, Hanna Barbera’s Heidi’s Song is a striking blend of adorable idyllic adventures and mind-bending psychedelia. I can only think that a generation...

• September 23, 2012
• Action, Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

Here’s one of my favorite things about this grrrrl-power, action-comedy from Pixar: I honestly had no idea what it was about when I sat down to watch. The filmmakers,...

• 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,...

• April 1, 2011
• Animation, At Home, Family

Is it the most sophisticated live-action/animated film ever? No. Will it win the Best Animated Feature Oscar next year? Highly doubtful. But is it fun and harmless and entertaining?...

• March 1, 2011
• Animation, At Home, Drama, Family

When I finally watched Bambi as an adult, I was struck not only by the beautiful animation, but by the sneakily educational storyline. The film is formatted in a...

• November 19, 2010
• At Home, Comedy, Family

Precocious Joey King stars as precocious Ramona Quimby, a girl who doesn’t just march to the beat of her own drummer, she cartwheels to it. Often misunderstood – especially...

• June 20, 2010
• Action, At Home, Drama

When 12-year-old Dre Parker (Smith) and his mom (Taraji P. Henson) pack up their lives in Detroit and move to China – for reasons that are never fully explained...