In Hedgehogs, a brash young hedgehog named Bobby (Anthony Padilla) loses his memory of who he is and what he is, makes friends with a bird named Hubert (Jon Heder), and battles a human (Chevy Chase) intent on eradicating animals. Originally in Chinese, the film is directed by?Jianming Huang, and arrives now on DVD via…
R.J. Palacio’s novel,?Wonder, captivated young people and their parents, but Stephen Chbosky’s cinematic adaptation was a sensation that caused theaters to add showings as screenings sold out. Centered around the story of Auggie (Jacob Tremblay), a young man with?mandibulofacial dysostosis, it shone a spotlight on the way that we treat people who don’t look, sound,…
Daddy’s Home took two disparate actors and dropped them in the middle of a battle over the hearts of two young children. It had poignant moments and various comedic hijinks. It worked on some levels because of the goofiness of the first actor, Will Ferrell, and the straightforward bluntness of the other, Mark Wahlberg. In…
not sure if you watch ABC’s?The Middle; if not, you might consider it it’s just a family sitcom, but a pretty good one, especially if you watch with your kids, which is how we do it and how it’s intended, i’d say it’s in its 9th (and final) season, so i’ve been thinking a bit…
I don?t do horror movies. I don?t do loud clangs, shrieks, or shadows that jump across the screen. I especially don?t do creepy sci-fi films. Movies that mess with time, reality, or my basic understanding of physics (which is very, very basic) rarely make it to my queue. In all seriousness, George of the Jungle…
Stay honest, Mr. Lincoln. ? Jane, West of Her Directed by Ethan Warren, West of Her tells the story of Dan (Ryan Caraway), a young man searching for purpose. Alone and adrift in life, he signs on with a mysterious organization, agreeing to travel the country with the enigmatic Jane (Kelsey Siepser) as they unveil…
In an opening scene that is shocking for both its lack of humanity and its restraint, Rosalie Quaid (Rosalind Pike) witnesses the murder of her husband and children at the hands of a Comanche raiding party in 1892. A few days later, Quaid is discovered by Captain Joe Blocker (Christian Bale), who is unwillingly escorting…
In George Clooney’s?Suburbicon, things are broken. The focus of the media attention in this 1959 paradise of picket fences and?Stepford Wives?values is the arrival of the first African-American family, the Mayers, who quietly move in across from Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) and his family. But the audience’s attention is drawn to a terse, charged home…
In Geostorm,?Clive Butler stars as Jake Lawson, the architect behind a revolutionary process that controls the weather via satellite called “Dutch Boy.” Thanks to an opening voiceover by Lawson’s daughter, we know that weather is out of control but that Lawson’s Dutch Boy has saved millions of lives. But with any technology, there’s plenty of…
All they wanted was a boys’ night out at a boxing match… Director Stephen Hopkins made his bones with tension-filled action flicks like?Predator 2,?Blown Away, and?The Ghost in the Darkness, while also marking the opening salvo of?24?with his direction. But in 1993’s?Judgment Night, he directs a quartet of young actors as suburban young adults trapped…
