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 Bucket List

The Bucket List

★★ Director: Rob Reiner Year: 2007 So this is one of those films, just like The Shawshank Redemption, that's played on TNT/TBS all of the time but ...

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 ...

Hugo

Hugo

★★★★★ Director: Martin Scorsese Year: 2011 Hugo is such a surprise hit. The trailers looked so awful I had no intention of seeing it, but the positive ...

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 ...

Rio

Rio

★★★ Director: Carlos Saldanha Year: 2011 This is my daughter's favorite film. Probably because she knows all of the characters and scenes after watching it twice on a ...

The Goonies

The Goonies

★★★★ Director: Richard Donner Year: 1985 I wanted to watch this with the kids and then realized my wife had never seen it. And she still hadn't ...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark o

★★ Director: Michael Bay Year: 2011 What do you expect  from Transformers' films? Not much. Just mindless explosions, but this one was worse than the previous. And ...

Paul

Paul

★★★ Director: Greg Mottola Year: 2011 Continuing on alien films, here's a great film that takes a completely different approach to what an extra terrestrial should behave ...

Captain America: The First Avenger

Captain America: The

★★★ Director: Joe Johnston Year: 2011 As summer blockbuster's went, I wasn't that interested in watching this. Granted, I never read any of the comics growing up. ...

Your Highness

Your Highness

★★ Director: David Gordon Green Year: 2011 Hmmm, so I didn't like Pineapple Express so not sure why I'd watch this. But someone told me that this ...

X-Men First Class

X-Men First Class

★★★★ Director: Matthew Vaughn Year: 2011 This film was such a nice suprise. I can't remember watching a good X-Men film in awhile. But the new, young ...

Rango

Rango

★★★★ Director: Gore Verbinski Year: 2011 What a surprising film. Based upon the trailers, I had no intention to watch this film. Granted, I thought it was ...

E.T. The Extra-terrestrial

E.T. The Extra-terre

★★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 1982 I thought it would be nice to introduce this classic to my 6-yo daughter but then found out my wife had ...

Thor

Thor

★★★ Director: Kenneth Branagh Year: 2011 This has got to be the biggest surprise hit of the year. Because the trailers looked so awful, but the film was ...

Hanna

Hanna

★★★★ Director: Joe Wright Year: 2011 Such a great take on Little Red Riding Hood.  You didn't get that? Here's a character doing battle with the big bad ...

Deliverance

Deliverance

★★★ Director: John Boorman Year: 1972 I guess I'm on a huge early 70s kick. Another film that's been on my list but never got around to seeing.  ...