• October 13, 2015
• At Home, Comedy

Virtual unknown Shameik Moore (who’s had a handful of guest-starring spots on TV shows) makes his big-screen leading-role debut as Malcolm, a super-smart, straight-A inner-city-L.A. high schooler with dreams...

• March 1, 2015
• At Home, Drama

Boy A is the perfect kind of movie to see completely cold. My pals Vickie and Eric has both caught the film at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007,...

• January 25, 2015
• At Home, Drama

The coming-of-age film is a tried and true formula. We follow a child, usually a boy, as he grows from wide-eyed innocence, through his formative years, until he becomes,...

• December 30, 2014
• At Home, Drama

Moving to a new town or having a baby are both life-changing events, but doing them both in quick succession can be pretty discombobulating. For Kelly (Juliette Lewis), enduring...

• December 27, 2014
• At Home, Drama

The setting is a lazy beach community in New Zealand, where the adults throw drunken house parties at night and sleep through the day, while the kids pretty much...

• November 18, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Romance

I remember once seeing a local news story about a family of four that was involved in a horrific car crash, where all but one of the victims died...

• October 24, 2014
• At Home, Comedy

If you weren’t subjected to the marketing of this film, you may find yourself wondering about the title. If you see the movie, and maybe didn’t catch the half-second...

• October 21, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Things are a little tense in the realm of perpetually feuding Greek gods Zeus (Sean Bean), Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) and Hades (Steve Coogan). The bickering brothers have long been...

• October 13, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Romance

For anyone who hasn’t yet been caught up in the zeitgeist, TFiOS is based on John Green’s bestselling young-adult novel of the same name, and centers on the relationship...

• July 25, 2014
• At Home, Drama

While watching Stephanie Daley, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had come across basically this exact story very recently. It was a novel I read called Plain Truth...

• June 10, 2014
• At Home, Comedy

Napoleon Dynamite is so flippin’ funny I can hardly stand it. I have no shame—I don’t care if Spielberg directed it. But I should preface all this by confessing...

• March 6, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family, Television

By now, most of us are well-versed in the premise of the ABC Family drama, The Secret Life of the American Teenager.  Regardless of whether you’ve actually seen the...