Battle for Terra (review)
A beautiful jewel of a planet. Alien invaders swooping down to steal precious resources and wipe out the natives. Oh, but look at that: it’s humans as the bad guys, as the alien invaders…
family/kids
Earth (review)
It’s not that this lovely-to-look-at nature documentary is bad: it’s just that it’s completely redundant as a film. Adapted from the 11-part BBC nature series Planet Earth — which has been available on DVD for eons — it feels as truncated as it is, cut down in an unforgivable fashion from the grand, sweeping story … more…
Monsters vs. Aliens (review)
The nicest monster movie ever…
Super Capers (review)
This brutally stupid superhero sendup consistently mistakes wholesale theft for creative cleverness.
Race to Witch Mountain (review)
Don’t bother with the film at all if you’re not a fan of The Rock…
Coraline (review)
An elemental tale of childhood fantasies and nightmares…
Children of the Stones (review)
This intensely creepy show is what made an entire generation of British kids the grown-up geeks they are today.
Inkheart (review)
Could be Thursday Next’s favorite movie of late…
Hotel for Dogs (review)
I do confess I was afeared of the potential for a funny-hat montage: it’s the kind of thing you expect from kids’ movie that features just about every kind of cute, ugly, cute-ugly, and funny-looking dog imaginable. But there was none of that here. There was, I concede, a bit with dogs on treadmills, but … more…
Marley & Me movie review: a dog’s life
It’s about human life with a dog. And it doesn’t have to force any of its sentiment because its emotion springs from an honest assessment of how wonderful, frustrating, and surprising life can be.
