Fantasia

Fantasia

★★★ Director: Norman Ferguson Year: 1940 Amazingly had never seen this. But I do remember it from college when people mentioned that you had to see this high, ...

Frozen

Frozen

★★★ Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Year: 2013 Another film that had such great promise and yet fell short. If they would have only cast Broadway singers/performers rather ...

Turbo

Turbo

★★ Director: David Soren Year: 2013 This is one of those films where the overplay and media buy of trailers killed it before it even reached theaters. I ...

Monsters University

Monsters University

★★★ Director: Dan Scanlon Year: 2013 Since this is set during college times, I'm sure some of it is difficult for kids to understand. But the characters are ...

A Monster in Paris

A Monster in Paris

★★★ Director: Bibo Bergeron Year: 2011 What an absolutely strange film. It mashes up The Fly and The Phantom of the Opera together in an animated kids film. ...

Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania

★★★★ Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Year: 2012 I wasn't quite sure what to expect from the trailers. But on a long flight to the west coast, I needed a ...

The Croods

The Croods

★★★ Director: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders Year: 2013 Another fun family film. I believe it's based on a game, which starts to make sense. There were some ...

Frankenweenie

Frankenweenie

★★ Director: Tim Burton Year: 2012 (coming soon)... > More Info

Wreck it Ralph

Wreck it Ralph

★★★★ Director: Rich Moore Year: 2012 (coming soon...) > More Info

The Iron Giant

The Iron Giant

★★★★★ Director: Brad Bird Year: 1999 Finally able to share this film with the kids. This must have been the 4th time I've seen it and it ages ...

The Lorax

The Lorax

★★★ Director: Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda Year: 2012 Interesting that I saw this without the kids. I loved the book ever since I first heard it during MacroEconomics ...

Brave

Brave

★★★ Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman Year: 2012 This is one of the few Pixar films that I've wanted to see and then was disappointed by. It ...

G-Force

G-Force

★★ Director: Hoyt Yeatman Year: 2009 Oh yeah, I saw this with the kids. It's basically Jerry Bruckheimer for kids. This is the film he made for ...

Happy Feet Two

Happy Feet Two

★★★ Director: George Miller Year: 2011 This was obviously with the kids. And it's great to have an excuse to watch a mind-numbing but entertaining film. There's ...

The Adventures of Tin Tin

The Adventures of Ti

★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2011 Visually, this film is unique and the camera movements and tracking are incredible. There's a gorgeous sequence where Tin Tin ...

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

★★★ Director: Wolfgang Reitherman Year: 1967 The beauty of having kids is watching all of the classics that I never saw as a kid. So this was ...

The Secret World of Arrietty

The Secret World of

★★★★ Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Year: 2010 Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli fims are synonymous with great films, storytelling and animation. And this does not disappoint. Although, this ...

Cars 2

Cars 2

★★★ Director: John Lasseter, Brad Lewis Year: 2011 Definitely not as good as the original. Granted, this sequel was more about Mater than Lightning, maybe that's why. But ...