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 ...

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 ...

Gnomeo & Juliet

Gnomeo & Juliet

★★ Director: Kelly Asbury Year: 2011 Oh, this was awful. Not sure why it did well in the box office, but the premise is quite terrible. Granted, there ...

Coraline

Coraline

★★★★ Director: Henry Selick Year: 2009 What an unbelievable film. So original, so smart and so dark. I'd say it starts as a children's film, but you definitely ...

Despicable Me

Despicable Me

★★★★ Creator: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Year: 2010 So how in the world did this film NOT receive an Oscar nomination? I found it to be amazingly original ...

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dr

★★★ Creator: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders Year: 2010 I'm not sure how this got nomiated for Best Animated Film while Despicable Me wasn't. Sure, it's a good film, ...

Lost & Found

Lost & Found

★★★★★ Director: Philip Hunt Year: 2008 When my daughter was born and we started looking at a lot of children's books, Oliver Jeffer's book had just came out ...

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Kiki’s Delivery Se

★★ Director: Hayao Miyazaki Year: 1989 I really wanted to like this film since it is a classic Studio Ghibli film, but I just couldn't get into it. ...

Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3

★★★★★ Director: Lee Unkrich Year: 2010 When this was in the theaters, I didn't really care to see it so my wife and kids saw it without me. ...