• October 12, 2008
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Based on the book by Jeanne Duprau, the story is set in a post-apocalyptic (?) future (?), where humanity (?) has been forced to live in a man-made underground...

• August 29, 2008
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

Three-dimensional films, as a gimmick, still seem to be in the relative stages of infancy after all these years of the medium being touted as “the next big thing”....

• February 28, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Family

I have spent my entire life laboring under the impression that International Velvet is very old and stars Elizabeth Taylor in a sequel to her own National Velvet. Imagine...

• February 23, 2008
• Animation, At Home, Family

I like the Peanuts gang as much as the next person, but they have given me moments of pause in my life. Like when I was six and they...

• February 10, 2008
• Adventure, At Home, Family

I happened to catch a trailer for the straight-to-video Snow Buddies tacked on to the end of another Disney DVD. I had heard of Air Bud, but honestly had...

• January 21, 2008
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Comedy

There’s nothing like an overly-complicated kid’s movie to make you feel like an absolute moron. There are so many things to like about Arthur and the Invisibles, but at...

• December 7, 2007
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

I have to admit, The Golden Compass left me a bit confused. It was in no small part due to the fact that I kept referring to it as...

• September 15, 2007
• At Home, Drama, Family

Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge features several performances that are so good, you might overlook how good they are—because they don’t seem like performances. They don’t feel like performances....

• April 29, 2007
• At Home

The last few years have produced some stellar nature documentaries that have, incredibly (and impressively), made a big splash in the mainstream. Anything from penguins (March of the Penguins)...

• April 8, 2007
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family

In what is an even finer example of lowest-common-denominator filmmaking than its insipid predecessor, Are We There Yet? (which, coincidentally, I also hated), this alleged “family film” dumbs itself...

• December 17, 2006
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music

Until I watched the DVD, my familiarity with High School Musical was with basically one scene in the film. One scene that was on every time I turned on...

• November 26, 2006
• At Home, Drama, Family

The day I write this, Akeelah and the Bee has an 84% postive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which basically makes me look like the biggest ass on the planet....